Category: Political
Wasted Effort by Environmentalists
I just don’t understand why “vampire loads” got all the attention from anti-coal environmentalists last decade. They are so insignificant compared to things like refrigerators and water heaters. A quarter watt “vampire load” costs you something like $0.37 a year (running 24/7/365 at $0.17/kWh). Meanwhile, an electric water heater is…
Blight Ordinance Proposal
WTF is going on in Wheatland Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan? I understand we’ve had some folks move in from the city (where these things make more sense), and everyone thinks they know what’s best for their neighbors, but some of this anti-blight stuff that’s been proposed is nuts. If it…
Solution to Health Care Reform??
I’ve been thinking about Health Care and our free market capitalist solution. I don’t think its fundamentally flawed the way some talking heads do, but I do think we’ve never made an official strategy that recognizes that we are using a capitalist system to run health care. So my idea…
Absurdity of Health Insurance
I’ve been saying this same thing for years: Health insurance is the primary payment mechanism not just for expenses that are unexpected and large, but for nearly all health-care expenses. We’ve become so used to health insurance that we don’t realize how absurd that is. We can’t imagine paying for…
MSN Money: “Why Gen Y might never retire”
I’m pissed off about this article from MSN Money: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/why-gen-y-might-never-retire.aspx “But when it’s time to invest, they’re as risk-averse as their Depression-era forefathers. That could prove to be a personal-finance mistake of epic proportions. It’s overly dramatic to say that investing like a scared rabbit could ruin your life. But…
Swine Flu
I’ve been debating with myself as to whether I should even recognize the insane and immature hysteria that has been broadcast by mainstream television media or to just make the choice to ignore it and spend my time on worthy news sources. I’ve finally decided that this situation has…
Editorial from MSNBC
An editorial by Brian Alexander of MSNBC.com: The 17-year-old daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin is pregnant. If not for the fact that Senator John McCain has chosen Palin to be his running mate, would we care? I doubt it… War in Iraq, economy imploding, energy transformation finally on America’s…
No Good Presidential Candidates
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m really disappointed that none of the mainstream candidates say anything about our rising debt or insane amount of spending. I heard Obama say that if we pulled American Armed Forces out of Iraq then we could spend all of that…