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    Why Uncle Sam Should Bail Out Banks

    When I first heard that Bank of America had proposed that Congress supply $739 billion to bail out the banking industry, I was indignant.

    The banks had created the mess — why shouldn’t they fix it? Why would megabanks like Citibank and Merrill Lynch need corporate welfare? After all, if I run up my credit card bill, the government’s not about to bail me out.

    I’m guessing that many of you reacted the same way. But after my initial ire, I started thinking about what a bailout would cost taxpayers — and whether it would be worthwhile.

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featuredimage Mathematical Truths

A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

featuredimage Assault with a hedgehog?

A 27-year-old has been charged with assaulting a teenage boy - with a hedgehog.

Cycling

Teach kids to bike with NO TRAINING WHEELS

In looking at systems problems sometimes the obvious is just not seen because of convention, for example, training wheels are the biggest mistake I have ever seen for a kid or anyone to learn how to ride a bicycle.

Events

Rock N’ Road Shop Ride

We’ll be doing a short little mountain bike ride out of the Mission Viejo shop at 7:30am on Friday 4/11/2008.
We expect to be back at the shop anywhere between 8:45-9:00am. Hope to see you there.

General

The Subprime Primer

This is a brief and humorous look at why the mortgage market crashed and burned.

I don’t remember where I originally got this, but it was printed and was done with stick figures. I was playing around with Comic Life and thought this would be a fun little project.

Enjoy.

Life

Life without an iPhone (Day 7)

…as nation fights against nation…as thousands go hungry in the streets…as our country still suffers under the leadership of George Dubbya…

Multimedia

Wall●e Trailer

I’m really looking forward to the release of “Wall●e.” I can’t think of a bad animated feature that Pixar has ever put out.

This one shouldn’t disappoint.

SciTechNet

WinXP? I’m so over it…

So I’m reinstalling WinXP Pro on one of our office’s workstations and I almost forgot how much of a chore it is. It’s not necessarily tough, it just takes quite a long time.