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In response to my post yesterday, Greg mondragon brought up a reasonable point. Since my response to it is as long as a normal post, I thought I'd repurpose it as a post. Double content generation points! Greg's comment:

I appreciate you taking the time to write this, but one question pops out at me: there are two assumptions here - one is that there are ( Read more... )

I listened to the a lot of AIG chief Ed Liddy's testimony on capitol hill yesterday. Some thoughts ( Read more... )

bigreddee asks:

What is your favorite invention of the past ten years?I would like to be able to give a high minded answer, some piece of new technology that has proven beneficial to the world at large and moved humanity a step forward. But the reality is I'm a consumer gadget whore at heart, and I can't think of a gadget I've come to love more than my ( Read more... )

So the next big fight in Congress is heating up: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Millions of dollars are being spent by both sides on advertising, talking heads are spinning like crazy, Senate votes are being counted, and the Republicans held up the nomination of Obama's Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, for weeks over this very issue. The debate ( Read more... )

I stayed home this morning to the listen to the California Supreme Court arguments in the case to overturn Prop 8. My immediate gut reactions ( Read more... )

Ah, March and the return of the "ask me anything" meme. I can't imagine that after all my years of writing here and living a fairly public life that there's anything people DON'T know about me already. But if you've got that burning question to ask, go right ahead. I'll screen and answer when I can ( Read more... )

This morning I sent in the last payment on my student loan. I graduated in the summer of 2000 and the term of the loan was 10 years, but I made payments of about 150% of the minimum over the last couple of years to pay it off a bit early. I used a good chunk of the severance money I got from my last job to pay off all of both mine and Sean's ( Read more... )

Where exactly does one go to buy rings? Other than the big mall retailers? I've never shopped for jewelry before and I'm at a bit of a loss. There's always Tiffany's, as many have suggested. But what are my other options ( Read more... )

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