Category: The Big Us

90 Days of Rush Limbaugh: It’s Enough to Make Me Miss Dave Ramsey

Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 1pm
By John Friedman

It’s been 90 days since I first heard Rush Limbaugh come out of my radio where once Dave Ramsey had been. Pre-2014, I’d been doing here and there 15-minute Dave Ramsey listenings as a part of my morning twa-let, and can quite unequivocally state that, even though I often disagreed […]

Free Money: How the Free Money of Medicaid Expansion is Better than the Free Money of a 401k Match

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 1pm
By John Friedman

Never turn down free money, you hear people sometimes say, right? And if free money were a more common thing, why, then you’d hear it said a whole lot more, but it ain’t (because, you know, TANSTAAFL and if-it-looks-too-good-to-be-true and such) so you don’t. But free money does in fact […]

The Treasury’s Checkbook: Healthy or Not Healthy as We Peer Into the Debt Default Abyss?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 10am
By John Friedman

Looking at a couple of statements from your day-to-day checking account, I tell new clients in our first working meeting, is like looking at the lab results your doctor orders when you have a physical. Staring out from those pieces of paper [pdf files] are a bunch of numbers that […]

Re: Guns and Gun Accidents, Johnny Cash Sings “I Hung My Head”

Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 2pm
By John Friedman

Johnny Cash, in his later years, made some truly wonderful albums, tastefully aided by producer wunderkind Rick Rubin. My fave is American IV: The Man Comes Around, in which you can delight in hearing Cash sing, for instance, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (could there be a voice more […]

The Golden Gate and the Gun: Two Equally-Easily-Deadlies?

Monday, December 3, 2012 at 11am
By John Friedman

The Twitterverse is abuzz today with talk of Bob Costas’s Sunday Night football comments about guns. The context for those comments, briefly, is that a day or so earlier a professional football player in Kansas City named Jovan Belcher had allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend, with whom he had […]

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