The Zednik throat slash was a horrible incident, but what a fantastic photograph by Bill Wippert. Not all moments captured are good, and this one so clearly shows the shock and horror of the people sitting near where it happened.
Each 4th of July party at our house is headlined by a smoked turkey. We usually pick an extra one (or three) up around Thanksgiving when they’re insanely cheap and keep it socked away in the freezer until a week before the 4th, when the defrosting process begins. This year’s bird was 19 lbs, and…
Sometimes it’s very beneficial to know how to do some relatively simple “advanced beginner” maintenance tasks on your own vehicle. Such as today when my rear brakes started squealing. I ran down to Pep Boys, picked up a new set of pads, and threw them on the car for a total cost of $27.18 and…
No matter where Wal-Mart attempts to go, NIMBY’s are sure to be found. Hamburg is no different. According to The Sun a group of 18 whopping people showed up at the Hamburg Planning Board meeting to protest Wal-Mart’s move to the ghost town known as Brierwood Plaza. The group cited several thinly veiled NIMBYistic concerns,…
Good column over at Bloomberg.com from Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. — The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought — and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned — are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These…
So GM announced today that they’re investing over $300,000,000 to construct their second plant in India. “GM India’s Chaba said the company chose Maharashtra as the site of the new manufacturing facility because of advantages over labor skills, costs, infrastructure and geographic location.” I’m curious as to what UAW workers think of this. What’s worse…
Had a minor glitch with the blog that prevented some IE users from seeing some of the newly created pages, like Ariella’s Gift List. Turns out the .htaccess file needed a manual update. Let me know if you see anything else out of whack.