I forgot to post this last week. I thought it was a really interesting article. The premise of the article is basically that we do not live under a Laissez Faire system of capitalism so it is ridiculous for everyone (from the media to leaders of Germany and France) to be blaming it for our current economic crisis ( Read more... )

Yay, the final lights are done!! We now have two pendant lights over the island. They look great! I'll have to get Coy to take a pic and post it since it didn't work for me last I tried. Now we just need to paint the ceiling in a few spots where the contractor had to re-texture. And we need to replace the current switches with dimmer switches ( Read more... )

I am so excited! We just had our new dining room light fixture installed and it looks great. Now, can't wait to get the rest of the lighting done in the kitchen and get rid of the fluorescent lighting once and for all!

Even though my weekend was short it was pretty good ( Read more... )

This question was pondered on a blog I read and I thought it was really interesting. There are certainly all kinds of things to consider. Here are a couple from the post ( Read more... )

Hrmmm...interesting. Apparently what we are going through now has a lot of similarities to the panic in 1873, maybe even more than the Great Depression ( Read more... )

This is very scary. And very "1984 ( Read more... )

"The real reason that the bailout is "necessary," and "essential" is not that credit markets will freeze or that the world will end. By forcing the takeover of WaMu and Wachovia, the Bush Administration, Citi and JP Morgan have bet that together they can coerce and lobby Congress into passing a law that will allow Citi and JP Morgan to dump their ( Read more... )

This was really interesting. It's an easy to read short explanation of why the bailout is a bad idea. Here are some interesting quotes ( Read more... )

It was awesome. I feel inspired about music again which is very cool. We got to see David Burns, a bit of Antibalas, and Manu Chao Friday night. It was very cool to see David Burn still rockin' it ( Read more... )