AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers

Stories like this are bittersweet for a cynic like me. Customers paying for the person behind them in line for hours… and yet, Tim Horton’s gets the publicity AND they still got paid for every cup of coffee  [more...]

Spurred on by “I Hate DC“, I took a look at surveys and compared my old home, Washington, DC, with my new home (or as close as I could get), San Francisco. The results are extraordinary, and tell me a lot  [more...]

This is a fun story – but I note that the NBC headline reads “Sweden Welcomes Government Dinner-Crasher”, which is a totally misleading sensationalism of the story. Evidently even a funny human  [more...]