LDAHL
Senior Member

And despite that, there’s something like $3.5 trillion in outstanding state and local debt. There’s another $1.5 trillion or so in unfunded state and...

Looking at our recent history of government actions unsanctioned by law, such as DACA, student loan “forgiveness”, eviction moratoriums, and Trump’s...

How have we come to the point where a state library is dependent on federal whims for its very survival? At what point does federal funding become a...

I think there’s a lot of truth to that. In a sense that almost any job well done is a service to others and it’s own reward. Strip away the status...

You see a lot of that. Maybe too many parents aren’t saying “no” enough, resulting in unreasonable expectations. It also results in too many...

My mom wanted me to become a dentist. Her reasoning was the money was pretty good and the stress level would be much milder than medicine. Who knows,...

The doll thing sort of put me in mind of Bernie’s complaint that we had too many choices of underarm deodorant and sneakers. In terms of the economy,...

My most recent annoyance at the grocery store was a woman demanding I assist her at the self checkout despite my protestations that I didn’t work...

In my case, there was no question because there was no money beyond the occasional care package or little gift. Asking for anything more would have...

Lacking family money, I paid for a BS, MS and MBA with seven years of military service. We can’t all get launched into life on Daddy’s dime, but...

That could be said of many degrees or institutions. I like some of the proposals that would hold universities responsible for at least a portion of...

I reckon I save close to a dollar per transaction via electronic bill pay. Just use checks for birthday gifts and charitable contributions. I do...

I recently came upon my wife screaming obscenities into her phone. She was unhinged by an unholy union of AI and telemarketing. Over a period of a...

The major indexes were their “highest ever” in the November-February period after Biden’s lame duck status was priced in. Not that I think short term...

Trump is infuriating. Biden was just depressing. For that last year or two he was president only in the sense that those Blue Origin ladies were crew...