Tax season always gives me pause. For example, I had to figure out how much my health insurance cost me for the just-past year, since it’s now 100% deductible on Schedule C. Gulp. So just how much do I spend on insurance? Health and Dental $2,821 Car $1,536 Life $610 Full 15% FICA & Medicare …
Regarding Abu Ghraib, I said in comments to this post that I blamed Bush for creating a climate which encouraged the kind of behavior we’ve now seen by American soldiers at that prison. Anthony Lewis agrees with me: Again and again, over these last years, President Bush has made clear his view that law must …
Here’s what you can expect to see all over the nightly news this evening: More pictures from Abu Ghraib. If your stomach is strong enough, you can click on the “More photos” link at the right sidebar within that article. Mixed in with more than 1,000 digital pictures obtained by The Washington Post are photographs …
If you’re traveling within the country this summer, here’s a list of National Park experiences compiled by the National Park Foundation. Click to get more info including links to the individual park sites. Best place to watch a sunrise – Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine Best photo opportunity – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, …
Worst pun ever?
I just finished Kevin Phillips’ book American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. This is from the introduction. National politics, in short, has begun to take on the aura of a great family arena. Of the four wives of the major-party presidential nominees in 1996 and 2000, two …
Something that’s in danger of being lost in all the uproar about the distasteful, disgraceful and inhumane behavior of American jailers in Iraq is that all those prisoners, no matter their guilt or innocence, have family members. I keep thinking of the hostage crisis in the 70s – thanks to Nightline (and other news sources) …
If the Italian evolution brouhaha wasn’t enough for you, behold the Dinosaur theme park. At Dinosaur Adventure Land, visitors can make their own Grand Canyon replica with sand and read a sign deriding textbooks for teaching that the Colorado River formed the canyon over millions of years: “This is clearly not possible. The top of …
For your Sunday afternoon leisure (hey, it’s afternoon here!), you could do a lot worse than go over to the Literary lions cartoon archive. Think of New Yorker cartoons with books and their readers as their sole subject. It’s probably best with a fast connection, but I had little difficulty with my pokey dialup. I …
I swear, someday I’m gonna create a mythical consumer basket of prices for Hawai’i. This item about the price of milk rising in LA (a gallon may cost more than $4) made me laugh out loud. I bought a half-gallon three days ago for $3.59, and that was 30 cents off the usual price. If …