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30Jun/09Off

America rewards poor decisions

If you are an American who makes poor decisions, fear not. Our government rewards you. In big ways and small, what was once the honorable virtue of forgiveness has been twisted into a pattern of taking the sting out of making bad decisions. This just fosters bad decision making and penalizes people who make good decisions.

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22Feb/09Off

A guy’s take on laundry

I was doing laundry this weekend. I do about 0.01% of the loads of laundry in our household, on average, despite being responsible for about 1/3 to 1/2 of it, by volume. I observed something funny about how I do it, too.

For whatever reason, I always start with whites. After all, they need special handling (don't put the red T-shirt in with them, right Jenny?). It also seems like you get a lot done by starting with whites.

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2Jan/09Off

Credit for non-service

I went to pick up an eyetv hybrid from the mac section of Microcenter. I stood around for 10 minutes waiting for th one guy in the section to finish talking on the phone. The only reason I was waiting was because the one I needed was behind the counter and I didn't want to just go back there and grab it.

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10Nov/08Off

…yeah, but…

We all know that kids are an imperfect and often unpleasantly distorted echo of ourselves. My youngest has started echoing a tendency I seem to have of contradicting people. I used to accuse him of being a little contrarian, but now I see he's just a chip off the old block.

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19Feb/08Off