The state pays its annual retiree health costs out of the general fund, where money earns only about 4 percent interest until it's spent. If instead California fully or partially funded future retiree health obligations in a separate trust account, the investment would earn 7 percent or 8 percent interest generating enough income to meet a lower ( Read more... )

"(Read the caption carefully. That's a human triggering sperm to ejaculate into a dead male squid. It's gay necrophiliac bestiality! You don't see that in the papers every day.)"
- Evolutionary Biologist and Sacred Cracker Desecrator P.Z. Myers in Pharyngula

Great quote in this SFGate article on Bay Area housing prices:

"Home prices in California have to fall 40 percent to 45 percent just to get back to its historic levels of unaffordability"

From SFGate:

Although voters will have genuine alternatives, the fog of campaign rhetoric is obscuring their true nature. Both Obama and McCain are putting forward economic plans that are more properly viewed as programs for getting themselves elected than for governing ( Read more... )

Phone rings

Me: Hello?

T: Is this a business?

Me: Who are you, and who are you trying to call?

T: This is Terry at the Better Business Bureau. Is this a business?

Me: Who are you trying to call?

T: That's OK. I identified myself. I work by phone...

Me: click

Data which see: http://www.sonic.net/~jrmagers/re/hpi/bayarea/


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If I had wanted to be a criminal when I grew up, this is the sort of criminal I'd have wanted to be:

PORTLAND, Ore. - Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect’s house - mountains of Lego bricks ( Read more... )

Once for cutting off part of my thumbnail and slicing into the thumb during a small household construction project, but that really wasn't that big a problem ( Read more... )

OK, I've got to respect the Donald for this commentary on the UN building renovations:

The Donald: ... if somebody said, what would be your dream on this site, while my dream is a dream that won't happen, but it's a dream that I might tell you. It's a dream to take the United Nations, and the Senator over here is probably going to go crazy, move ( Read more... )

On Target! You go, JPL!


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