Since 2004 American households have been putting away less than $400 a year in savings. That’s almost identical to the saving registered during the depression. How can such a rich country have so little to save? (That’s a rhetorical one. Okay? ‘Kay.)

The NYTimes has done yet another no-holds-barred data analysis of how indebted our country [...]

This image below is a screenshot of skyscrapper format ad which explains “Why Are Online Degrees are HOT?”
And I ask, why are online degrees so hot? And why is NexTag, the Comparison Shopping site displaying this ad?
And why did I see it on a Facebook page? Are they really this comfortable with letting advertisers saying [...]

The following is from my my travel blog, June 29, 1999, after spending a month traveling in Myanmar.
My saddest news to report is that for all the hype Aung Sun Soo Kyi gets, and all the flack that is reported about the government, I didn’t get the feeling that anyone could dare topple the current [...]

Last week I posted the above photo I took of an ‘IMPEACH’ banner unfurled at AT&T Park (Giant’s Stadium) during the National Anthem . The entry was heavily cited.
One of the people responsible for the banner posted a comment on my entry saying they were part of a Bay Area group of CodePink. CodePink is [...]

Scotter Libby walks on his 30 month prison term for obstruction of justice. Talk about obstruction of justice.
You read Frank Rich’s opinion piece in the Sunday Times where he starts gathering the clues pinning this leak and much more back to Vice Commandant Cheney, right?
Regardless of how he spend it, justice has spoken and [...]

Over 2,400 pets have been submitted to a directory of affected animals.
UPDATE: F.D.A confirms presences of other chemical, melamine, a fertilizer agent. Dry foods may now also be suspect. See breaking New York Times story.
ASPCA reports that the deaths are too varied to all be explained as rat poison contamination. In fact think how [...]

It’s been brutally clear that the current Administration is anti-science and proud of it.
I expect this smoking-gun report from, The Government Accountability Project, a DC watchdog group, will only be one of too too many to come out over the next 5 or so years.
Read the full article at the excellent Wired blog, 27b Stroke [...]

Here’s an advertisment paid for by the National Cable and Telecommunication Association. It ran on TBS.

(Click thru if you don’t see the video in your feed reader)
It’s so bad it says that Net Neutrality (i.e. an internet where all requests are equal to all other requests) means everyone will have to pay more. It’s [...]

SF General Hospital is hoping a add a Trauma Center which could airlift in drastically hurt people from a large area. In college there was a Trauma Center at the hospital and each time a helicopter flew in you knew some very hurt person’s life was int he balance. I recall seeing the helicopters, but [...]

…. to tell George Bush to veto the atrocious “Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act.”

This highly unethical act passed the Senate in September and the House on Monday via a snuck-in voice vote on Monday. It is so far reaching it would make it illegal make you a terrorist to peacefully protest companies that churn out pets [...]