Let me just say, unequivocally, on the record, that a "Gas Tax Holiday" has got to be one of the most idiotic, downright stupid, embarassing, shallow, pointless proposals to help our economy of this entire deplorable primary season ( Read more... )

Managing a good personal finance lifestyle is not unlike managing a good personal health lifestyle.  Temporary changes don't breed lasting results, but creating permanent changes does.  For instance, my wife and I have actualized a commitment to eat healthier.  In our diet we now have a decidedly larger proportion devoted to fruits and vegetables, ( Read more... )

Hello to all my old livejournal friends who've followed me over to my new journal.  I needed a change, because my old journal suffered from a split personality, of who I was when I first started blogging versus who I am today.  Fast forward from 2002, and my life did, and did not, follow the path I thought it would ( Read more... )