RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: When Paul Ryan was elected to Congress in 1998 his net worth was $413,520, a one-fifth share of his family trust. It’s now $3,207,000.

Turns out that you are more likely to be crushed by your television than killed by al Qaeda. Seems to me that we need some kind of government-designed color coding system to determine the threat level of our big screens.

It started when I saw Christmas decorations on sale at Target in September. At the beginning of November, the same shopping center was bedecked with garland and ribbon, which would have been bad enough in December since  [more...]