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Education is part of defense. We won't be able to defend ourselves if we are all dumb.

CM_Dude, It is funny, because I feel about Repubs the way you feel about Dems. So many Repubs were big fans of GWB when he seemed to me such an obviously bad choice for Pres. He even won in 2004 after there was so much evidence he was awful. Many STILL think he is okay. Many Repubs will...

Just a thought on #1. If you have enough of a down payment to buy now, then you don't <strong>need </strong> to save more for one. So, if moving to a bigger place will give you that much more mental happiness/sanity, you could swing it. Since prices will fall, your current $ amount of down...

<a href="http://xkcd.com/463/">Too funny!</a> <img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_machines.png" alt="" />

I think any moderator probably has a preference in candidate, whether they say it or not. However, I think this looks bad. I think the McCain campaign shouldn't have agreed to her being moderator if they thought she couldn't be fair. Her book was reported in the AP two weeks before the...

I heard that both Pres candidates agree with the addition to the bailout of raising the FDIC limit to $250k. What am I missing? Why is raising the limit a good idea? Isn't the FDIC already going to be broke?

Funny! <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/septembermadnessb.jpg">September Madness</a>

We use Cox for TV and for internet. I've been pretty happy with Cox for years. Although, I also bought a TiVo HD and get annoyed at watching TV "live". I don't think any of the other DVRs are as good as TiVo yet. It seems that DirectTV's DVRs are the closest.

blackacre - that's a tough one. I am ambivalent about it. I went straight from high school to college to grad school. I was and am happy enough. But sometimes I wish I would have delayed college and tried acting or playing in a band. Those are things you have a much better chance of...

It cannot be guaranteed as long as we vote with electronic ballots via machines running software that we cannot inspect. The software running those things could be programmed to do anything. They could purposefully change 1% of the votes to a specific candidate. They could have bugs in the SW...