If you haven’t read Elias Isquith’s post on respect and the presidency, it’s well worth your time. The Economist also had a good piece on the subject: The beautiful idiocy of Cartman’s demand to “respect mah authoritah!” is that he… Continue Reading
New Mexico has the lowest number of this per-capita. Followed by: West Virginia, Connecticut, Idaho, South Carolina, New York, California, New Jersey, Arkansas, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, Utah, Hawaii, North Carolina, Nevada, Washington, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Colorado,… Continue Reading
Every now and again I look at Clancy’s hospital’s employment page. It’s unlikely that I would actually get a job there, but it’s a source of interest all the same. They recently had a job posting for a Health Information… Continue Reading
It’s actually a kind of funny question for me to be asking since, well, I’m not. It’s summer and so my substitute teaching gig is at an end. My telecommuting job from last year evaporated. I’ve been keeping an eye… Continue Reading
It’s a long story, but Clancy and I are still trying to get out 5-figure tax refund from 2010. They claim to have sent the check, but we never received it. The next step in the process is to fill… Continue Reading
In his essays about Fox News and MSNBC, Tod was impressed by Rachel Maddow’s handling of the voting rights issue and how efforts to crack down on voting end up disenfranchising legitimate voters. I was recently reading up on the… Continue Reading
Erik’s post on pop culture and conservatism reminded me of something I meant to write about but almost forgot. This involves spoilers of the first episode of the new TV show Scandal, a political drama. One of my observations about… Continue Reading
While talking to Pat Cahalan in Las Vegas, he talked about stopping in a town where I used to live and getting completely unacceptable Mexican food. This came as a bit of a surprise to me because I found the… Continue Reading
I was reading an article about Hewlitt-Packard and a sentence jumped out at me. The wording made me think that Lenovo had purchased Dell. My eyes shot wide open and I went googling and discovered that no, this bizarre thing… Continue Reading
There has been a lot of text spilled involve New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s soda ban in New York City. A lot of the commentary, seems to miss what I consider to be the central points. The central dilemma is,… Continue Reading