We caught the first part of Survivor: China tonight and recorded the rest. In the opening ceremony held in a Buddhist temple, the host, Jeff Probst, was careful to say that the ceremony was not a worship service. Even so, Leslie, the Christian radio talk show host, refused to participate in the portion that required [...]
When I went to college in Rolla, MO, they had a shirt that said, “Rolla: In the Middle of Everywhere.”
I get that feeling with the Holiday Inn Express halfway between Denver and Brighton. It is about 40 minutes to downtown Denver, about 15 minutes to Brighton, and about 10 minutes west to Northglenn, where the [...]
The U.S. is hitting its debt ceiling again, and the Treasury Secretary is asking for another $850 billion, AP reports.
Last year I guessed that we’d hit the debt ceiling in January this year, but additional revenues (from lower taxes, who’d have thought it ) delayed that guess almost a year.
Just within the lifespan of NR, [...]
Bloomberg News reports (link dead) that beginning October 2 Southwest Airlines will stop letting people with small children board first, in an effort to shorten the time to load its planes.
The policy looks more like a shifting of time rather than a savings of time:
Southwest now splits passengers into three groups, based on when they [...]
AP reports (link dead):
WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.
“At this point, we don’t have anything punitive that [...]
