Tag: YOYO

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 […]

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 […]

Knowin’ Komen: Being Smart About the Charities You Bring Into Your Life

This piece is about how to make smart decisions when lending your support to a charity. To get there, we’ll use as a jumping off point the story, much in the news the past ten days, of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® charity no-go’ing, and then un-no-go’ing, its […]