02.08.08
Paging Dr. Evil
Apparently Dr. Evil ain’t got nothin’ on Rupert Murdoch’s new WSJ:
That’s right, sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
02.01.08
Faux Green
TechCrunch has a very good rant up on the pretentiousness of being green. “Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to”?
…or even better, stop eating meat. Raising livestock causes more
greenhouse gasses in the U.S. than all transportation combined (and, I bet, all email printing combined). So put down that hamburger and get out of my inbox.
Here here. I can rest comfortably knowing that my SUV is offset by eating less red meat. 🙂
01.26.08
Problems.
We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
01.15.08
Presidential Ambitions
Yahoo has a nice little dashboard up to help track the horse race election progress:
Obama and Clinton are a dead-heat on the Left. (Look at the delegates, not the popular vote.)
Huckabee and Romney are a dead-heat on the right.
It’s also a good time to check in and see who has the most money…
01.12.08
Tax the Rich?!?!
From John Mauldin this week…
[The Democrats] want to “tax the rich” and make more for middle class tax cuts. Sounds nice, but let’s look at the facts. The bottom half of taxpayers only pay 3% of the total income taxes collected, which is 1% less than before the Bush tax cuts. 44% of the US population, or 122 million people, pays no income tax at all.
The richest 1% of the country pay 39% of all taxes ($365,000 income and up), which is 3% more than before the Bush tax cuts, under the Clinton tax policy. The top 5% ($145,000) pay 60% of all taxes (up 5% from 1999); and the top 25%, with income over $62,000, pays paid 86% of all taxes. It seems to me that the rich are paying their fair share. Every category is paying more now than under Clinton, except the bottom 75%.
While the positioning is slightly biased, the numbers are astonishing.