educational blip

When I was little and the only time you could watch cartoons was on Saturday morning, somewhere in there they decided they would try and make it educational so they would have these little sixty second bits of “news.” I use the scare quotes because it was probably just as much propaganda as the Weather […]

cheap thrills

One thing I’ve observed, and I think I’ve even written about it already, is that everything I have is now suddenly new! and exciting! for my children. Well, not the oldest, he’s too cool to be excited about anything to do with his old man, but the other two cannot get enough. I live upstairs, […]

Built for the Road(kill) ahead

Well, Ford sure knows how to make people forget about their last dismal quarterly results. This time, they lost even more money! Ford Motor Co. announced today that it lost more than $12.7 billion last year, the biggest annual deficit in the company’s 103-year history. At least they finally beat GM at something: Today’s figure […]