Unless you had a personal stake in a film being released this weekend, movies were far from the most important thing happening to you these past couple of days. You can blame the weekend's mostly anemic box office on one thing: the Super Bowl. Everyone spent their money buying snacks and preparing their parties and not going to see 'That Awkward Moment' and 'Labor Day,' both of which opened soft.
This Labor Day we went camping at a small lake in far Northern MN. We packed up the truck and the boat and I was looking forward to some time relaxing around the campfire and doing some fishing.
Well isn't this a shocker! Our driving habits have changed so much lately that the United States has actually had a surplus of fuel for the last nine weeks and has been exporting refined fuels to other countries.
Americans are using so little gasoline that the U...