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Didja ever have some people exit your life, and you ended up wondering about them years later? People who don’t leave a huge digital footprint on myspace and linkedin and orkut and facebook, and yet you get curious about what the hey happened to them?
I had some friends two houses down when I was a little kidling, and I really loved spending time with them. Their parents had really tricked out their house, and what they managed to do with seventies technology was pretty impressive to a first-grade me. Their mom would feed us white bread, yellow mustard and baloney sandwiches for lunch, something that was verboten in my house – my mom was perpetually on a diet and fed us roasted turkey deli meat on dry high-fiber bread that had wood cellulose in it. Sawdust bread. Yeah. Continue reading
The National Association of Realtors have released their quarterly housing report which gives median values and changes. Below are the 20 most expensive markets by median price for a single family home. Continue reading
Our top story this morning is your beloved Newsbunny’s left eye being swollen shut after the Stray Cat Attack. Little Furry Bastard. You realize, of course, this means war.
There are other things going on. Continue reading
Seeing as how the last GOP debate was such a good time around here, we made the snap decision to host another one of these babies tonight.
So, if you’ve got the stomach for Fox News and the dimple faced empty headed musings of Gretchen Carlson and the like, let’s get fired up for some debating.
The Whole Foods Mega Buckwheat and Soy Bean grocery chain has decided that the cons outweigh the pros of being a socially conscious entity by basically becoming the poster child for retreating political correctness. How, you say?
By deciding that the big, bad conservative blog community should lead their marketing endeavors.
Two economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published an interesting report this week that analyzed the potential for Chinese currency inflation to affect U.S. consumer expenditures.
In non-wonky English, they looked at how much money Americans spend on goods and services from the U.S. vs. China. What they found is that only a tiny percentage of our spending actually ends up in the hands of the evil communist Chinese.
The fed report is pretty damning when you look at in terms of the pre-conceived narratives about China that we’ve been told by both the commie-hating right and the Walmart-hating left. Continue reading
Nearly five months after a magnitude 9 earthquake unleashed a massive tsunami, caused northeastern Japan to spring 13 feet to the east and utterly crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, details about the extent of the damage and the amount of radiation that’s still spewing from the troubled reactors is only now coming to light. The Japanese government, in collusion with the nuclear regulatory agency and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) tried to hide critical information from the public concerning radiation levels in the Tohoku region not only to ostensibly curb panic, but to avoid having to pay damages to those who make their living in the region and/or shoulder the expense of relocating even more evacuees. Continue reading
In today’s media landscape, when something like the rioting in London happens, you can be sure that each side of the political spectrum will draw their own conclusions from it.
Current discussion of the riots generally falls into two camps: those on the left who connect the riots to economic inequality and recent austerity cuts to social services, and those on the right who scoff at any such attempt to “make excuses” for what they believe to be nothing more than a mob of subhumans spoiled by the welfare state. Of course, the predictable racial invective is there too, as a quick scan of the comments on any article about the riots will reveal. Continue reading
If you’ve been to many funerals you know that emotions are raw and grief can easily tip over into hysteria. That hysteria usually takes the form of tears but it can also take the form of laughter. Fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve never walked away from a funeral without a funny story. This probably says a lot more about me than it does about any of the funerals I’ve been to. For me, something has always happened that let me get some of the energy out through laughter. I don’t think this makes me a bad person and I really don’t care if someone else thinks it does. If they do, I’m going to bet their funeral to age ratio isn’t as high as mine, but whatever. Continue reading