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Personal finance lessons we should learn from this crash

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:23:40 PDT
With most of the failing financial institutions gone or acquired by others and a bailout trying to take shape, we should take a moment to reflect on our personal financial situation. Here are a few takeaway lessons we can personally learn from, so we never have to feel trapped again.

The Big Bailout Circus

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:47:07 PDT
The Big Bailout Circus has the nation in stitches. Taxpayers are being sewn into a skin-tight forever suit by an amazingly bipartisan group of government clowns. But despite the agreement about the need for a slap dash redo of the U.S. financial system — and by extension our political system — the designing bozos disagree about details. And none ca

McCain abandons Michigan, shores up the levees in Virginia

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:33:15 PDT
McCain abandons Michigan, shores up the levees in Virginia Category: Policy and Politics John McCain is in trouble. Public polling has shifted toward Obama, and Obama's larger donor base allowing him to outspend McCain in traditional Republican strongholds like Indiana. With Colorado and New Mexico in play out west, and a good chance that Obama will take Nevada, too, traditional battlegrounds like Ohio and Florida are less critical than in 2000 and 2004. Indeed, there are several plausible sc

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Mapping the Digital Divide

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:54:47 PDT
Sandwiched between YouTube videos of laughing babies and exploding fountains of Mentos and Diet Coke, you can find a 45-second animation of Africa’s “Internet weather.”

Politics: Getting You To Eat Crap

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:38 PDT
It’s like you’re hungry, and the Democrats are like, “Here; eat some crap. Yummy crap. Mmm.” The Republicans, on the other hand, have cheeseburgers. Sometimes they’re really good cheeseburgers you get at a sit-down restaurant that is like a steak between two slices of bread, but more often than not it’s just McDonald’s cheeseburgers...

Dangers of Showering in Chlorine

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:17:03 PDT
Taking a shower may be harmful to your health. That hot shower may feel good, but what's it doing to your body.