I Pledge Allegiance to Big Government
Does anyone else think it ironic that Obama plans to "restore faith in the banking system" by letting our pal the government take it over?
3.26.2009
3.12.2009
Do they even know how much we're worried?
Multimedia day. Theme: Congress ruining our lives. Subcategory: pitching the world into a debt inferno.
Audio:
The Collegian (a panel including Joel and me) interviews syndicated columnist and author Mark Steyn about why young people need to stop letting older people steal our futures. And why American journalism deserves its present malaise.
Illustration:
What $1 trillion looks like (thanks, Chase)
Stories:
Congress has spent $1.2 trillion since Obama's inauguration—$1 billion per day (Politico)
Breaking the back of small business (Politico)
Yet still unveiling a plan to send OUR money overseas to bail other ailing economies (Wash. Post)
Multimedia day. Theme: Congress ruining our lives. Subcategory: pitching the world into a debt inferno.
Audio:
The Collegian (a panel including Joel and me) interviews syndicated columnist and author Mark Steyn about why young people need to stop letting older people steal our futures. And why American journalism deserves its present malaise.
Illustration:
What $1 trillion looks like (thanks, Chase)
Stories:
Congress has spent $1.2 trillion since Obama's inauguration—$1 billion per day (Politico)
Breaking the back of small business (Politico)
Yet still unveiling a plan to send OUR money overseas to bail other ailing economies (Wash. Post)
3.11.2009
Saint Paul rain
I growled at the rain from under my umbrella-less head, and plotted a path through it to my destination that would a) arrive me most directly and b) run beneath the most overhangs. I started pattering between drops, noticing 30 seconds later that I had already forgotten my plotted path and was now soaking myself in a longer path under an open sky.
Arg. That which I wish to do I do not do, I told myself. Freakin' Apostle Paul. Get out of my head.
Well, don't exactly get out of my head; you're a good guy to have in there, I guess. But stop making fun of me. You have nothing to do with plans for avoiding rain. And I'm not sure I really like you. You are mean to women. Okay, that's whiny and untrue. But I like thinking it anyway. And my head is all wet.
As usual, my hair mimics my mind. (I'm lying. That's not usual at all. The hair part, I mean. Well, I have a hair part, but it has nothing to do with my mind. Unlike the Apostle Paul.)
I growled at the rain from under my umbrella-less head, and plotted a path through it to my destination that would a) arrive me most directly and b) run beneath the most overhangs. I started pattering between drops, noticing 30 seconds later that I had already forgotten my plotted path and was now soaking myself in a longer path under an open sky.
Arg. That which I wish to do I do not do, I told myself. Freakin' Apostle Paul. Get out of my head.
Well, don't exactly get out of my head; you're a good guy to have in there, I guess. But stop making fun of me. You have nothing to do with plans for avoiding rain. And I'm not sure I really like you. You are mean to women. Okay, that's whiny and untrue. But I like thinking it anyway. And my head is all wet.
As usual, my hair mimics my mind. (I'm lying. That's not usual at all. The hair part, I mean. Well, I have a hair part, but it has nothing to do with my mind. Unlike the Apostle Paul.)
3.04.2009
New way to pay
Though I'm not sure I like the idea of mortgaging 20 years of my life for school loans, the reality is that most students have to do that anyway. Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer suggests retooling the college loan system, having graduates pay a fixed percentage of their income (whatever their income) for 20 years rather than a fixed-rate repayment. Interesting.
Though I'm not sure I like the idea of mortgaging 20 years of my life for school loans, the reality is that most students have to do that anyway. Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer suggests retooling the college loan system, having graduates pay a fixed percentage of their income (whatever their income) for 20 years rather than a fixed-rate repayment. Interesting.
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