I just finished D-Day, a book detailing the Allied Forces invasion of the beaches at Normandy in WWII, by Stephen E. Ambrose ( Read more... )

I've doing a lot of commenting here and there, though mostly not on LiveJournal. I've mostly been reading and commenting on the state of the economy and American society in general ( Read more... )

Senator Edward M. Kennedy passed away in his home after a long battle with brain cancer ( Read more... )

 
Note: One of my favorite authors, Walter Jon Williams, wrote about stock market trading Artificial Intelligences trading in the manner described...

So the latest thing going around about the market is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has rallied to its highest since the beginning of the year.

The other latest buzz phrase is High ( Read more... )

 
Say it ain't so, Barack!


 

 
Higher Proportion On WelfareJohn Wagner, director of California's Department of Social Services, said the state is home to 30 percent of all welfare families nationwide who are receiving federal cash assistance, though the state has only 12 percent of the U.S. population. Compare with Texas at 8 percent of U.S. population and 3 percent of all ( Read more... )

The world is watching ( Read more... )

For the past couple of months, I've been making comments in a couple of sites about how the unemployment numbers are being irresponsibly reported ( Read more... )

 
Federal income tax revenue dropped 44 percent from a year ago. (sourceOverall federal tax revenue dropped 34 percent from a year ago. California is experiencing similar drops in tax revenues ( Read more... )

Today, one out of 15 marriages in the United States is an interracial marriage. I'm married to a wonderful woman, the love of my life. But if this were still 1966, I couldn't legally be married her in some parts of the United States ( Read more... )