For all of the hand wringing about the $700B bailout, the Feds have put our nation’s children on the hook for about $8T (and counting) without a single vote from Congress (who, by the way, is doing everything they can to do as little as they can so that they can avoid political liability that [...]
The going rate for a text message is now $0.20, up from $0.05 a year or so ago, a puzzling increase given that every underlying component of communications technology has become cheaper over that time. Given that a text message is billed both for sending and receiving (which should be criminal) this means that it [...]
From the I Think I Just Threw Up in my Mouth a Little Bit Department:
The senate just voted to go ahead with the $300B mortgage bailout. As usual, it was accompanied by much self-righteous chest thumping from our ever generous politicians:
“What better gift on independence could we give the American people than [...]
The following is best read in a voice akin to that of Don “The Voice of God” LaFontaine:
IN A WORLD where people have forgotten their manners, made deaf to their fellow citizens by ipods sprouting from their heads, apathetic to those around them: one man stands alone, willing to fight [...]
It’s not so much that people at CU smoked pot, skied and climbed rocks, or that I have a problem with any of these activities in and of themselves, it’s just that from what I could tell, that’s pretty much ALL many of them ever did, professors included. While the grad students were, in some [...]
The answer is that if we voted in May, an incumbent could never get elected. I’ve been working on our taxes (about two days now) and seeing my wife’s extra work get taxed at the full marginal rate was very depressing. She worked her ass off to teach a class, for which they paid her [...]
I’ve been trying to help my Little Brother, Jay, find a job for the summer. While he’s a great kid and doesn’t get into any trouble, we’d like to help him stay out of the way of some of his peers who do. The summer is a prime time for violence in South Boston. Junior [...]
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