Monthly Archives: April 2010

Garbage collector is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, which nobody selected. On the Fox News station in Florida, they were carrying a news item today a man who was critically injured when a pickup truck plowed into … Continue reading →

Raising Social Security retirement age – one of the answers to the latest poll about Social Security offers the choice of raising the retirement age. Probably a lot of people don’t yet realize they already did this in 1983, figuring … Continue reading →

Google’s CEO of the “news” – as reported on Politico – Google’s CEO urges the news business to present the news that readers want to see based on what they’ve read in the past That point of view has a … Continue reading →

Glenn Beck & New York – Glenn just mentioned that he and his staff were discussing on the plane where they should move to in order to get away from New York’s taxes 8^P

Quinn & Rose appear to be on opposite ends of a phone line, based on what I heard this morning. I wonder if that is their normal mode of operation…

Change to polling – in an attempt to track down the multiple voting problem, the voting module will not offer you the opportunity to vote unless your browser has accepted the cookie that has your session ID in it. Voting … Continue reading →

The Pandora threat to radio – “they” say any publicity is good publicity. This week is the NAB convention, and apparently Richard Harker thinks he can earn brownie points by calling the head of Pandora a “pathological liar” which has … Continue reading →

25 story building in Seattle to be demolished – the 9 year old McGuire apartment building is unrepairable, suffering from corrosion of the structural elements which were not painted to protect them from corrosion. Residents have been urged to move … Continue reading →

The Irish real estate bubble – Ireland has approximately 380,000 vacant housing units, in a country with a population of only about 6 million people (a bit over a million of that is in Northern Ireland). Irish fertility rate is … Continue reading →

“We are taxed too much” say 66% of Americans – when half of all Americans pay no income tax at all? How can that be? We aren’t paying for the government we’re getting – it is being funded with debt. … Continue reading →

Tourism in in the SF Tenderloin district? The New York Times does a profile on the possibility of turning the homeless hotel district of San Francisco (North of Market street between Union Station and City Hall) into a tourist destination, … Continue reading →

The details of the Polish plane crash… http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7094338.ece The air traffic controllers had told the pilot to divert to another airport. Prior to the 1st attempt to land, the pilot had dumped fuel. That sealed the fate of the plane … Continue reading →

Which Republican will cave first on the Supreme Court nominee? My guess is John McCain Just a few short years ago, the Republicans had a majority in the U.S. Senate, but not 60. Traditionally, the Senate filibuster applies to legislation, … Continue reading →

Newsbusters.org is back up. I doubt anyone will be shocked to hear it was a criminal Denial of Service attack. If it resumes, mrc.org is their backup site.

What would you do?