U.S. budget deficit shrinks by over $200 billion, reaches 4-year low

Italy. The country that gave us both Galileo and the men who threatened him for saying the planet moved around the sun. Some things never change.

You might remember way back when, the era when ketchup was declared a vegetable in school cafeterias. Yup, the glowing, sparkly Reagan era. Frankly, I yearn for that era after 4 years of Dubya at the helm. Well, it  [more...]

I’ve finally started packing for my little jaunt to Austin tomorrow — well, what’s the point of packing early, you know? Anyway, the weather there is pretty scary: it’s a little more than  [more...]