Friday, February 20, 2009

I'm getting sick and tired of the wacko right and pseudo Libertarians bitching about the "Socialism" of the stimulus law. How many of them built their own roads or printed their own money?

However, I can't critique them better than Bob Cesca from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/sean-hannitys-ridiculous_b_168033.html

Friday, February 06, 2009

Finding change as a sport: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/06/found.money.family/index.html

OK, for a while, I wondered if my picking up change was a sign of insanity - and my partner would sometimes insinuate that it was. That is, until we emptied out our change jar and had $250 in it for our vacation. He's now converted to this simple bit of thriftiness, and I'm realizing that my habit of scanning the floor for change paid off when I found $50 in the Port Authority one night.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

I'm all for going as green as possible, but this is a little extreme:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/garden/05fridge.html?pagewanted=all

I have to agree that having an energy efficient fridge and examining the supply chain of what goes in it would make a bigger impact on resource use.