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If you ate breakfast this morning be thankful for that and think about those that didn’t have that option. If you think that you can’t give because of high gas and food prices, imagine all of those that make less than you. If you give up $4 lattes for one week, you can provide food for a family for a couple of days.

Hey, what’s this shotgun doing…*blam* Ouch! My foot!
–Obama Campaign (repeatedly)
Put me firmly on the side of not understanding why the Obama campaign would opt out of the Federal funding system. Well, I mean I understand why just not why.
You have a candidate that has (correctly) campaigned on getting money out of politics and campaigning. So, [...]

I’m watching with bemusement as Viagra, yes Viagra, becomes the #1 issue in the Missouri GOP Gubernatorial race. The combatants are: Sarah Steelman current state Treasurer and the only Republican I’ve ever voted for on one side and Kenny Hulshof, current US House member and the GOP machine’s pick for Governor on the other.
It started [...]

About six weeks ago, I mocked the Missouri legislature for enriching themselves with tax credits but not requiring any sort of public disclosure of the credits. HB 2058 was enacted during the session to cure some of the ills of the system.
– deems a taxpayer eligible for any state tax credit program even if a [...]

The tech world is abuzz as Steve Jobs takes the stage this morning and announces to the world… well, we’re not sure but the new high-speed iPhone is sure to be on the list. It seems like a great opportunity for me to pick up the first generation phone cheaply, which will receive the update I [...]

Congrats to the Detroit Red Wings on their Stanley Cup win. Not bad for a bunch of guys that were too old, slow, and European to win the Cup.
I’m having a ton of fun with Political Calculations’ newest tool, Build Your Own Income Tax.  After losing the code to an errant USB drive, they recoded it and it’s [...]

The New York Times had a big story over the weekend about young Evangelicals in St. Louis not being pre-programmed robots for the Republican party. I have no idea what placement it had in the paper, but it was the 10th most e-mailed story yesterday online (I can imagine readers of the Times shock and [...]