OK, I stretched, I ran, I cooked a BA lunch. There's nothing on my work calendar for the rest of the day, so it is time for me to study, just study, for the rest of the day and perhaps into the evening, until I'm done studying. I will fill my brain with everything there is to know about the Principles of Financial Accounting. It's not a law ( Read more... )

30-something bro dude complaining on Reddit that people are using the term "Daddy" when they're only in their 30s, this pisses him off ( Read more... )

When my copy of Turbo Tax finished cranking back in January, it announced that I owed $3 in Maryland state and local income tax ( Read more... )

It looks like the President admitted to obstruction of justice via Twitter the other day. This is why none of the well-known defense attorneys in DC want to represent him, he has absolutely no discipline. When you and your closest family and colleagues are under investigation (and some of them have already been charged with crimes), you aren't ( Read more... )

I'm amused that the Socialist International split up about 5 years ago, with a new group called the Progressive Alliance grabbing 40-50 country-members.

Reminds me of how the Green Party of the United States split from the Green Party USA back during 2001. Could there have been a more pointless struggle than that one ( Read more... )

There's been an unusual number of accusations of sexual misconduct in the media lately. People I'll never meet say they were sexually assaulted by people I'll never meet. Some of the accused have been fired or have resigned from their powerful positions. Others have not (yet ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend who is somebody I barely know, posted a lament about being a monogamous man in the gay world.

I am not monogamous, and don't want to be, but if I were, I would also lament. Because basing my happiness on the willingness of somebody else to always avoid acting upon his sexual desire feels futile to me. Knowing the track record ( Read more... )

Occasionally I want to read a book so badly, even though it doesn't have a Kindle version, that I order it in paper. Typically it is then never read at all, and sits around the house for decades. Well, I presume decades, I haven't had my Kindle apps for as long as 4 years yet ( Read more... )

1 in 175,223,510That is my chance of winning the $100,000,000 Powerball jackpot after buying one ticket for $2. Generally a losing proposition, but just for fun sometimes I buy a lottery ticket when I'm at the Beer/Wine/Lottery store. Even when the jackpot is nothing special ( Read more... )

The federal government does its budgeting on a fiscal year that runs from October 1 to September 30. So we just finished a fiscal year. The US Treasury has added up how much money the federal government spent during the past year: $3.60 trillion ( Read more... )