Hi everyone!  Welcome to all of the new visitors to the site.  With a couple of decent articles this site has gone from about 10 pages views a day to a little over 300 yesterday and looking like that or more today. So as a nod to my readers, and a thank you to the [...]

I saw this post a few days ago and chuckled.  The guy was pondering what it would be like if we lost all modern convenience.  Why did I find that amusing?  Not too long ago I finished reading “Dies the Fire” by S.M. Stirling. Dies the Fire is the first installment of the Emberverse series [...]

Ramit over on the “I will Teach you to be Rich” blog has an excellent post about what is not being said about the economy.  He focuses on the two presidential candidates.  (He wrote it after one of the debates.)  However I tend to agree with a lot of what he has to say and [...]

In trying to revamp my blogging style I noticed something today.  My “About” page was not only very outdated, I don’t think it was very useful. So I have spent some time updating it, added a contact form to this site, and generally cleaned up that part of my blog.  This is all part of [...]

Currently 33% of Americans have zero, *zero*, tax liability. This is the 33% that McCain and Obama continue to talk about helping. With their tax plans… that is projected to increase to 43% and 44% respectively. What does that mean? It means an increasing percentage of our countries population take no part in funding the government they *expect* to receive services from.