RickJWagner

Thanks for sharing those. I'll give them a look!

Yes, I agree. My personal technique for dealing with this is try to look at multiple online news sources, not just one. I'll look at one from each side of the political spectrum and try to trian…

Is anyone in the publishing business reading this? If so, I've got a personal story to share. I love cars. I'm a gearhead and I just love cars. I subscribe to several car magazines. Exce…

I don't like your Walmart analogy. You are right, there are lots of low-income shoppers who buy things at Walmart they couldn't otherwise afford. To these shoppers, Walmart provides a better…

I like legendary basketball coach John Wooden's definition of success better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MM-psvqiG8 …

The cop that pulled the trigger will have to live with it for the rest of his/her life. Like all people, most cops are decent people. To assume otherwise is just wrong. I personally know several…

No, I disagree. We need to change society back to the point where people are decent and don't fool around with public resources like cops. First responders are life-saving. Mis-using them is ser…

"To be sure, the Federal Reserve said it couldn't determine whether the student loan debt is causing young college grads to move to cities." Of course not. Since time began, kids hav…

Back in the runup to the election of 2000, George Bush proposed investing Social Security funds in the stock market. Al Gore took the other side of the argument, correctly stating that the market car…

The XBox controller is surely designed to be durable. Getting handled by kids is a tough design requirements. Whoever proposed this deserves an 'Anti-Golden Fleece Award'. Great suggestion…

Have you ever met someone else who had this done? Was there an attraction?

As soon as Amazon becomes close to too powerful, they will be broken up. It happened to Standard Oil (way back when), AT&T, even Microsoft got spanked handily over Netscape. Amazon will not become…

I don't like the idea of taxing capital gains. Buy-and-hold (and eventually sell) is one of the few paths to financial independence that are available to the common wage-earner. Many people have…

I'm generally pretty conservative, but I wouldn't mind higher rates on the very top earners. (Say 500k and above. When you get to the 1M tier, put taxes into the 90s.) But there's a c…

Yeah, that probably has to do with the population decline. But as for the rating, North Dakota is at #8, so I don't think cold weather is hurting that.

"Stay the course"... a key phrase. You must be a fellow Boglehead! (Bogleheads have a handful of short phrases that describe the simple foundations of Bogle's investment philosophy. A…

Very sad to see this. Bogle spent a lot of time (and gave up the opportunity for a lot of money) preaching to people about how wealth can be accumulated. He really had a heart for helping people. Wat…

Ah, the 240z. Great looking car!

I'm a car nut and love cars. I like the idea of a new Supra, but I don't think it'll last long. The days of the sports coupe are gone. (i.e. the Accord Coupe was a great car, but nob…

With gas under $2 a gallon, it's not surprising that SUVs are selling like hotcakes and sedans are barely moving. Bump gasoline up a dollar or two, then SUVs and trucks will slow down. Cars are a…

At least two things to like in this: 1) Open is better 2) Bipartisan legislation, indicates some progress is possible

If she didn't kill him, he may have killed her. They were a tempestuous couple. But that doesn't mean she and her friends had the right to kill him. Murder is murder.

I'm a little jealous. The whole exploration/discovery angle sounds like great fun.

Social networks are taking the place of RSS? Ugh. RSS allows intelligent selection of what you put in front of yourself every day. I suppose Social media could be used in the same way, but I don&#…

That's fair. Both sides usually blame each other. During the Obama administration, there was a government shutdown as well. Democrats blamed the Republican congress, Republicans blamed Obama an…

Wow, that's a chilling story. I'm glad the author's grandparents (and others) were given this opportunity. I'm also glad we got to read about this.

Plenty of people see it as the Democrats in Congress who are holding things up. (After all, there is universal agreement that border security is important. Also, many prominent Democrats have pledge…

It's not really coding, but I helped with troubleshooting and analysis when Obamacare first rolled out. There was quite a fire-- the front-end would crash, lines were endless, etc. The governmen…

Suicide, drug overdose, and liver disease. It seems like an ounce of prevention can help stem those.