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One of the most sobering observations… comes in the form of a disarmingly simple calculus presented first by Isabel Sawhill and Christopher Jencks. If you finish high school and keep a job without having children before marriage, you will almost … Continue reading →

This will not end well.

Patience is a supreme virtue where electronics are concerned. We patiently endured a free but ancient wintel POS but it finally died; we ditched it in favor of a 17″ MacBook Pro with the i7 chip running at 266 GHz … Continue reading →

This is just sad, and that is coming from a devout militant apathetic agnostic.

Regarding Cordoba

Obama has a plan, and for those of us who pay our bills & our mortgages, it sucks.

Paul Krugman, that is. I may have said this before, but I despise Paul Krugman and his over-inflated sense of righteousness in his defense of his Economic theories.  He just can not admit that he was wrong, and he’d have … Continue reading →

Anybody else notice that Google Maps’ Satellite view now includes the ocean floors? I’ve kept a bunch of old National Geographic maps of the various ocean floor topography because it’s so fascinating. Check out the amazing cliffs just off the … Continue reading →

Good Op-Ed, from Reagan’s director of the OMB

From Ted over at Point of Law “How many inventions are we missing out on today because it’s impossible to develop a first version that’s safe enough to withstand the risk of product liability suits?” I think of airliners.  I … Continue reading →