Look out, the ‘fixers’ are coming to ‘fix the debt’ Top corporate chieftains and Wall Street gamblers want to tell Washington how to fix our national debt, so they’ve created a front group called “Fix the Debt” to push their agenda. Unfortunately, they’re using “fix” [more...]
A new wrinkle in the gun control debate has come about. Sick of the inordinate control that gun makers have over our society and the political influence that have upon our government, a massive petition campaign has brought about a new law making gun manufacturers [more...]
Journal entry: January 1, 1984 (age 37) In the same archipelago as the Island of Misfit Toys sits an even more remote locale known as the Island of Forgotten Christmas Tree Ornaments. It is a kind of limbo for the ornaments that were accidentally left [more...]
Resolutions for 2013 that should’ve been made by various celebrities, but probably weren’t Okay. Bent over. Hands on knees. Breathing hard. Whew. Made it to 2013. *Pant. Pant.* For a while there, didn’t seem like it’d ever happen, but somehow we mercifully staggered across the [more...]
The best time for tweeting is not the best time for facebooking — you’ve got a lot to learn! “Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00″ is a new advice book which tells the reader the best possible time to get everything done, from [more...]
Due to the corporation American International Group even THINKING about suing the U.S. Government after getting bailed out by every taxpayer in the country, the government has responded by demanding that the company drop the “American” part of their name. Ex-AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg wanted [more...]
Free thinking universities turn to corporate-think The “ivory tower” of academia has become overshadowed by a new edifice on campus that is reaching ridiculous heights: the corporate tower of mammon. As public universities have been driven by budget-whacking lawmakers to seek ever-more private funding, schools [more...]
Journal entry: January 1, 1984 (age 14) — New Year’s Resolutions So far, it’s been a tumultuous freshman year at Seton Catholic Central High School. I’m starting to get the hang of things, but I still have a long way to go. This New Year’s [more...]
No doubt you had a lot on you mind in December — the dancing of sugar plum fairies, America stumbling toward the fiscal cliff, the outcome of the classic Beef O’Brady’s Bowl game and whatnot — so you might have missed this bit of big [more...]
Living on the minimum wage is no golden brick road On January 1 nearly one million Americans in 10 states received a pay raise because of a hike in minimum wage — but the issue of state and federal minimum wage laws will not go [more...]