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We have new tax proposals running out our ears – let’s tax the politicians instead.

I heard this PSA on the radio the other day during a talk radio show and thought it was a parody.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has been pondering the question of why America has inferior raw ingredients for cooking compared even to developing countries. He had a list of reasons of which number 3 (efficient transportation) and number 4 (efficient large scale agriculture) are instructive. The American market has made the (I’d say rational) choice […]

Check out the Social Security calculator from the Heritage Foundation and see how much you are losing by not having your money invested privately. I was surprised – I was able to get my Social Security return above 4%….if I extended my life expectancy to 115. Link from The Flybottle.

Iranian blogger (and yes, “cleric”) Mohammad Ali Abtahi takes on the questions raised by the Dec. 26 tsunami regarding God. Anyone and any thought who wants to make connection between the natural events and the God’s anger will face lots of logical questions to which he/she cannot find an answer. Those who wanna benefit from […]

“OPEC….” “Hmmmm….” “What does an Irish chicken do?” Carnac the Magnificent MSNBC – Carson was everyman, with charisma “The day the music died” was February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly’s plane crashed outside of Clear Lake, Iowa. The day television died was May 22, 1992, when Johnny Carson hustled out of a Burbank studio, leaving […]