Tag: You’re on Your Own

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

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 […]

Defined Benefit vs. Defined Contribution Retirement Plans: Why 401k Plans are Not Your Father’s Oldmobile

Making the rounds the past 24 hours is a piece by Atrios in USA Today called “401Ks are a Disaster.” Here are the first two paragraphs: We need an across the board increase in Social Security retirement benefits of 20% or more. We need it to happen right now, even […]

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

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 […]

Space Shuttles and Scarcity: It Takes a Willing Country

The Bay Area just wonk bonkers watching the Space Shuttle Endeavor, as it flew over, low, atop a modified 747, on its way to its final resting place in Southern California. We don’t build those things any more. Or fly them into low outer space. I think that’s a shame […]

Life in the Little City and Papa John’s Couple’a Dimes

I’ve lived in SFCA for a long time. And during that time I’ve grown totally accustomed to seeing all sorts of people out and about who, all things being equal, really ought to be getting help somewhere other than in the general environs of public space. Call them what you […]

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