Behold the power of stupid people with money!

No one has to tell me that salaries aren’t keeping pace with inflation. Rising gas prices would be bad enough, but now I pay significantly more for fewer health benefits. I guess I’m glad I don’t have any debt other than my mortgage, or I’d really be worried.
Upper-level management is doing just fine, of course. [...]

There was a horrible bus-truck crash near me last night that resulted in four deaths. The bus was carrying a women’s hockey team that had just played a game at the War Memorial. They were on their way for night skiing when the accident happened.
The cause is still being determined but the NTSB is [...]

One decision that often has to be made at large fires is whether to extinguish them or let them burn out. But every now and then you run into a situation where you can’t easily make a decisoin one way or another. Like the burning manure pile out in Nebraska.

While our government focuses on fighting terrorism and running up enormous deficits, our global dominance is slowly shrinking. If that continues, our current way of life, especially for the middle class, is doomed.

That the world, and especially the Poles who lived nearby, could overlook such monumental evil is a sorrow I will carry for all of my days.
I hope to someday visit Poland and Germany, the places of my ancestors. Perhaps I will also visit Auschwitz and the other places of death. Because, unlike that inbred [...]

Here’s something that’s either creepy or cool, right now I can’t decide one way or the other. A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, now includes photos (in selected places) along with yellow pages search (link is for optical shops). Get an idea of what the place looks like before you go there, I guess.

The former ferry company is accusing the city of giving it a bad name.
Hmmm, let’s think about this one for a minute. Is there no possibility that because they submitted a faulty business plan that the city bent over backwards to ignore the flaws in, operated at capacity for months yet lost money, and then [...]

Golly, all that “sometimes-bitter debate” didn’t make a bit of difference, did it?
I’m sure they’ll be plenty more of it when Alberto “torture is fine by me” Gonzales’s nomination comes up. And I’m sure he’ll be approved too.

As bad as suicide is, it’s worse when rescuers or others are hurt or killed when someone chooses to take their own life. It’s even worse than that when innocent people die because a would-be suicide chickens out.

I don’t think so.

Readers who know me personally will find the “Skype me!” button over on the left laughable, but I’ve gone and installed Skype on the Mac at home. If I’m ever available, it will be evenings and weekends and you’ll also have to have Skype installed to call me.