Danny Gallagher
Sorry Drivers, Hands-Free Devices Aren’t Safer Options to Cell Phones
In response to the National Transportation Safety Board-proposed ban on cellphones while driving, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers tried to defend hands-free devices. They’re “designed to be used in a way that helps drivers keep their eyes on the road,” they said, but now it looks like this defense doesn’t hold water.
What’s TSA’s Newest Flight Hazard? A Handgun-Style Handbag
A teenager’s western-style purse emblazoned with a handgun emblem on the front caught the attention of the Transportation Security Administration.
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, millions of Americans will sit down at the table and gawk over all the goodies they are planning to cram in their gullet. The holiday might seem as familiar as singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the “Seventh Inning Stretch” or packing a finger in ice that was blown off by a firework on the Fourth of July. However, like all traditions based on history and passed down through the ages, its genesis and story has been morphed and changed to fit the times.
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Candy Corn
Every year, it hides in some dark, dank corner of even the most raucous Halloween party, waiting for some unknowing fool to stick their hand in its clutches of doom. It entices its prey with colorful designs and the promise of sweet joy, only to fill its victims with a familiar sense of bland, flavorless dread. This horror isn't some flesh-hungry siren that snares its victims with its sultry voice. It's candy corn, that traditional Halloween treat that always rears its yellow, orange and white face every year mainly because no one can ever get rid of the stuff.
But this most reviled of Halloween candies actually has an interesting origin. Here are nine things you probably didn't know about candy corn.