I was surprised to discover that President Obama thinks the Democrats' terribly unpopular, possibly unconstitutional health care plan will somehow be okay with the public if presented in February 2010 as opposed to December 2009. But what really surprised me is that he is so blindly socialist as to think that price controls are a good thing
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I clicked the headline "Solar power project in Mojave gets $1.4B boost", cringing in preparation for what I knew must lie within. Sure enough, funds from the "stimulus" bill are being used for a loan guarantee for a solar power complex that will generate a small amount of electricity (less than half of a typical coal-burning or nuclear plant).
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By calling Verizon and threatening to switch our phone and Internet service to cable (which actually wasn't a terrible deal, though I wasn't serious about switching), I got the following deal for our family
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This comic is inspired by a true story, starring yours truly, which I submitted to the artist. The original incident occurred in Chinese, so the Chinese version of the comic is closer to what really happened. Enjoy!
Today I learned that Mongolian doesn't distinguish between "he" and "she." This is even more extreme than Chinese, which differentiates them in the written language but not in pronunciation.
Mail Merge is a handy feature of Microsoft Office that lets you automate part of the process of personalizing form letters or other documents that you are producing in large quantities. You can use a database of existing information to fill in a unique name, address or other piece of information anywhere in the document. You can also send out
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