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Last Post 1 Jan 2013 | 12:33 am
When you set out to do what you wanted to do, it is time to stop. I have enjoyed writing this blog over the last four years. But like all good things, it has to come to an end. I have been writing ...
What a Rotten Year! Or...Maybe Not! 31 Dec 2012 | 08:54 pm
Oh what a horrible year we've had! Everything is going so badly. No, wait, that's not quite right, is it? On the Internet, you see people trolling and grooming and posting messages about how awful ...
Some Fiscal Cliff Myths 31 Dec 2012 | 07:45 am
The media is baiting us on Fiscal Cliff horror stories, to get us to watch television and to get us to click on stories. The political parties are also using this man-made crises to try to get us all...
Hidden Costs of Car Buying 30 Dec 2012 | 12:31 am
There are a lot of hidden costs in buying a car - costs you might not think about while looking at a shiny new car under the bright lights of the dealer showroom. The dealer says you are approved for...
What is MyLife and why am I to blame for it? 28 Dec 2012 | 10:41 am
What the heck is this Mylife thing? And how do they find out so much information about you? If you ever google your own name (an exercise in narcissism, but then again, so is a blog), or that of a f...
The Death of Journalism 26 Dec 2012 | 11:00 pm
A lot of people are crying that newspapers are dying - because of the Internet. But the Internet is little more than a format-change. Journalism started dying long before the Internet came along. ...
Radio Shack? 26 Dec 2012 | 09:26 am
How does this place stay in business? In a previous posting, I opined that Radio Shack might be gone in 2011, as many prognosticators had suggested. It was a Zombie company, the living dead, just wa...
Gun Nuts 26 Dec 2012 | 09:19 am
I recently posted an article, "Another Day, Another Mass Shooting" - and since that posting in July of this year, there have been a number of attempted and successful mass shootings at Malls and Schoo...
Insights from Annual Credit Report 25 Dec 2012 | 10:05 pm
It's that time of year again. Time to go see a movie and get Chinese take-out - and run my Annual Credit Report. Christmas is a dull time, nothing to do except see a movie and get Chinese take-out. ...
Gun Nutz 25 Dec 2012 | 08:50 am
Want to creep out your friends, make yourself unattractive to the opposite sex, as well as basically unemployable? Start collecting high-powered weaponry! Gun Nutz are just that - crazy. And no on...
