Having our cake. Eating it. Charging it to the kids.
So, once again, the United States Senate fails to make the hard decisions required to ensure the long term financial viability of the nation, and even goes as far as to lambaste the single, rare soul making a principled stand for fiscal responsibility. Shocking, no?
Where It All Began
I was thinking about an incident that occurred in an economics course I took a decade or so ago on the commute home this evening. I don't know why it popped into my mind, but for some reason, there it was, pissing me off just like it did when it first occurred.
Never Touched Her
She was petite, with a bright smile and short brown hair. The prototype of practically every girl I would fall in love with from that time forward.
DIY Anti-Terrorism
Amanda Ripley wrote a great piece in Time the other day about how we're all being trained to count on the TSA and other governmental agencies to protect us from threats like the Christmas Day plane bomber.
It Exists Where I Say It Does
A few years back, I was working in a development shop using a source control package that insisted that all of the developers using it have their code in the same logical location. We settled on "D:\Code" for our standard and made sure everyone stuck too it, as changing the setting to anything else screwed up the rest of the team.
The World Turned Upside-Down
Mark it on your calendar: On December 25th, due to emerging trends and really bad weather, for the first time ever, e-books outsold paper books.
Scroogernomics
There's a new book out called Scroogernomics that explains very well one of the things I hate most about the upcoming holiday season: Gift giving is extremely wasteful.
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