I have my first midterm on Wednesday, but for the first weekend since about April, I was pretty stress free and relaxed. Why? The Dodgers clinched on Thursday. I didn’t have to spend Friday night worrying about an upcoming sweep, I don’t have to spend Saturday and Sunday constantly hitting refresh on [...]

“This is about our way of life, our society, our economy. … This isn’t about Wall Street.”
- Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana

The Troubled Asset Relief Program would take taxpayer money (yes, this time it is taxpayer money) to buy bad mortgages and securities from financial institutions. This would provide much needed cash liquidity to the [...]

The Federal Reserve’s actions for AIG is not a government bailout.
The thing that worries me most about the current economic turbulence is the public’s knee-jerk reactions and complete ignorance of the public. Take this AP article on Sacbee.com. The “journalists” blatantly call this a government bailout and carelessly throws around the term [...]

Holy crap! No wonder they tried to ban this stuff. I joined this weight loss contest at work because I’ve gained about 15 pounds since moving to New Jersey (I blame the fresh mozzarella here and my school schedule). So in preparation, I got some diet pills because I was going to [...]

The internet is up in arms over Kevin Baxter of the L.A. Times. Baxter seems to think that Juan Pierre should start over Andre Ethier (who almost hit for the cycle in a 5 for 5 appearance last night) because Pierre has a World Series Ring. Based on that logic, Juan Pierre should [...]

Found on wikipedia.

If we get a place with steps to the front door, I’m totally doing this.