What a bonehead move ( Read more... )

Nationalized healthcare is a bad idea.  It doesn't work in Canada, it doesn't work in Spain...  Here's hoping we can stave it off for long enough to get someone else in office.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_canadian_healthcare.html

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes.” Sure, if ( Read more... )

Quantum tracking (or whatever UPS calls it) is great ( Read more... )

Several economic indicators are pointing up... but that's actually a bit of bad news for us if we expect the stimulus package to be effective.  What this means is that the bulk of the economic stimulus package is going to come when the economy is already, to a large extent, recovered ( Read more... )

I'm considering it a good thing, but I'm going to have to temper it a bit.  Tonight I spent 4 combined hours on the piano and banjo...  My fingers burn a bit (thin strings, so it's not too bad) and I'm really tired.  I first realized I was getting tired because I stopped making progress ( Read more... )

( America Doesn't Torture )

If my desktop has been shut down for more than about two weeks, it's a bit of a battle to get it booted up again. I disconnect and reconnect some things until they stop making the wrong sorts of noises and coax it into working as though I were trying to convince a frightened cat that I was generally less dangerous than hiding underneath the ( Read more... )

Well, 2 finals down, 2 to go. I played Chocobo-chocobo as one of the pieces in my juries for applied piano, and one of the judges almost recognized it. It was really well-received, though, as it's actually an entertaining piece that none of them had heard before (except one). They asked me where I got it and a couple of them wrote the piece name ( Read more... )

So begins the month of The Christmas Special ( Read more... )