I got the following in my tri-weekly e-mail from the GOP:

President Obama and Liberal Democrats in Congress don't seem to grasp the fact that since the Democrats took total control in Washington, the stock market has lost over 20% of its value.

Aside from that number being made up, I think they've grasped the fact that the economy is still in the ( Read more... )

It's good to see someone confirm what I've been saying for a while.

It made no sense for either McCain or Obama to talk about spending increases and cuts using absolute dollar figures, because normal, everyday people have no concept of how big large numbers are.

Lie #174: Lowering Corporate Taxes Leads To Job Creation

Truth: Strong, Healthy Economies Lead To Job Creation

An equivalent statement would probably be "Lowering temperatures results in people playing more video games." You see, when it's cold out, people stay inside more, and most video game systems are indoors. If you're indoors, and a video ( Read more... )

I started reading an article entitled "Scraping by on $150,000 a year" on money.cnn.com, which told the story of a family with a yearly income of $150K who claimed to be living paycheck to paycheck. They had stopped paying for things like gourmet coffee and cable TV but were out of ideas. The article grew more and more bizarre as it explained ( Read more... )

I started thinking about this after watching a movie about Jesse James. In the highly romanticized account, all of the railroad and bank heists perpetrated by the James-Younger gang are an act of revenge against the President of the Rock Northern Railroad.

The thought I had was... how would one go about doing that now. Let's say, for example, ( Read more... )

I used to carry a pen and a little Mead notebook around in my jacket, and when things popped into my head I would furiously scribble them down.  Often times I would forget them, so I'd go buy another set, and after a while I ended up with four or five notebooks, none of which were more than 5% filled, and the words contained within them were ( Read more... )

I am subscribed or what you call it to the Sierra Club community here. I'm not entirely sure why. When I joined, I assumed that people used it to discuss various environmental issues or talk about Sierra Club activities. But mostly it is used for various people to post ill-conceived ideas about boycotts and online petitions that need to be ( Read more... )