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The Biggest Music Festival of the Year: Kaleidoscope 20 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
If you are going to be anywhere near Eugene, Oregon next weekend you absolutely need to check out the Kaleidoscope Music Festival on August 23rd, 24th and 25th at Emerald Meadows in the Buford Recreat...
My Tip to Wake up Early (and Quickly) 9 Aug 2013 | 09:21 pm
There are all sorts of tips out there to wake up early and, what I think is more important, quickly. My entire family and I chronically get up late and often waste an hour or more pointlessly hitting ...
DIY Disasters: Part 5 7 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
Apparently some do-it-yourselfers don’t do things perfectly each time… who woulda thought, ehh? Anyways, that’s what I’m here to document for all you lovely people: Stairs to Nowhere: OK, this wasn’...
Liberalism is Kinda Boring 6 Aug 2013 | 03:12 am
Liberalism has been called a lot of things. Some seem to think that the term is synonymous with good, others think it’s naive, Michael Savage called it a mental disorder, etc. But the one thing I don...
The Left Reaches Really, Really Far on Detroit Bankruptcy 30 Jul 2013 | 11:15 pm
So MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perr said the following about Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing (and general state of awfulness): This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown in you...
Peter Schiff Does Stand Up 28 Jul 2013 | 06:06 am
OK, so Peter Schiff has gotten a little too doom and gloom for me of late, but he’s still the man. And apparently he can do stand up comedy too: Not bad for a stock broker… ________________________....
Swift Reviews: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking 26 Jul 2013 | 07:47 pm
Allen Carr’s classic book is possibly the most important book I ever read. I hadn’t smoke that long and I would like to think I would have quit eventually anyway. But then again, I had “succeeded” a f...
Swift Reviews: The Power of Habit 16 Jul 2013 | 11:16 pm
Charles Duhigg certainly bit off a large bite for himself, and did a mostly very good job of chewing it. The Power of Habit is a fascinating book that looks into how we develop habits and how thos...
John Stossel Rundown 10 Jul 2013 | 01:06 am
Here are some of my favorite, mostly recent, discussions on some very relevant topics by the man with mustache himself: John Stossel with Chuck Devore and Matt Welch comparing why Texas’s smaller ...
Income Inequality in America: A Partial Critique 6 Jul 2013 | 01:01 am
So I’m a little late on this one, but there is a viral video on income inequality in the United States going around that compares what a survey of 5000 Americans said they thought wealth inequality sh...