Right at the beginning of this year, there was a video going around that stirred a bit of controversy. A financial analyst named Porter Stansberry made an hour long lecture-style video called “The End of America,” by which he meant that we would lose our financial dominance and quality of life, not that the country would [...]
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The Educational Rapture
Posted in Education, Humor, Politics and Society, tagged activism, budgets, economy, Nevada, satire on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the Holy Book of Teacheriah, an Epistle to the Unionians, chapter 5, verses 5-10: 5 And in that great and last day, there shall be a famine of public-sector budgets in the land, and the houses of learning shall be in mighty want; 6 And there shall arise many great heroes, like unto the [...]
Good News / Bad News
Posted in Humor, tagged economy, home sales, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas Sun on May 11, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, a local Realtor group released numbers about home sales here, but the two big local newspapers reported on it very differently. It’s more than a matter of vague interpretation: one said that numbers went up, the other said that numbers went down. It’s not that either was wrong: the optimistic headline in the Review-Journal [...]
“Their Fair Share”
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged class warfare, cognitive dissonance, economy, rich, slavery, Washington Mutual on April 18, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I took a class in college in African American Literature. An interesting “chicken or the egg” issue came up early on: America didn’t participate in slavery because it was a fundamentally racist society, America developed racism because it embraced slavery. It was in the 18th century, for example, that American seminaries started teaching future ministers [...]
The Problem With Throwing Money at Problems
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged economy, liberalism, money, politics, spending on February 22, 2011 | 8 Comments »
There’s a dangerous floodgate opened when liberals say that throwing money at a problem will solve it. If liberals say that spending more money on something–like health, education, or the economy–will improve it, then it follows that you should spend as much money on it as possible. After all, if graduation rates or test scores [...]
Why Don’t Illegal Alien Sympathizers Love Mexico?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged economy, illegal immigration, Mexico, recession on July 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A few weeks ago I was hiking at Mt. Charleston and saw a group of about a dozen Hispanic men clearing fallen trees from the side of the road and feeding them into wood chippers. I couldn’t help but wonder how many of them, if any, were in the country illegally. After all, we’re in a [...]
Huston For Superintendent
Posted in Education, tagged academic achievement, budgets, CCSD, Clark County School District, economy, effective teaching, personal responsibility, school reform, superintendent on April 3, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Last week, the Clark County School District superintendent announced that he’ll be leaving over the summer. As the school board starts searching for a replacement, I’d like to throw my hat in the ring. Below is a list of ideas that I like. I plan to be at their meeting on Thursday, April 8, at [...]
A Caution Against Christmas Materialism and Overspending
Posted in Living well, Religion, tagged Christmas, cultural criticism, economy, materialism, money, personal responsibility, saving, spending, thrift on December 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Despite the recession, I’ve heard too many stories recently of people going overboard with Christmas shopping. It brought back to mind the following, which I originally posted here over a year and half ago. Though it’s written with a Latter-day Saint audience in mind, the principles it promotes apply to everybody. ***** What have been [...]
Broke Means Nevada To Me
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged City Journal, economy, Las Vegas, Nevada on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
City Journal is in the process of posting articles from its Spring issue. Most of what’s appeared so far is great…which makes it only average by City Journal‘s standards. This publication so regularly soars beyond excellence that to be an above-average issue it must transcend the mundane limits of reality…which it has, more than once. [...]
Animated U.S. Map Shows Job Losses
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged economy on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scary.
America’s Finances Stabilize: USA Wins Lottery, Gets Inheritance, Sells Stuff On E-Bay
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged bailouts, economy, satire on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SATIRE In the face of staggering, record-breaking trillion-dollar deficits for this year and the foreseeable future, America was understandably worried about its financial future. Luckily, several unexpected windfalls came up and helped America break even. “I was all sweating about these bills I got coming up, you know, infrastructure and social security and stuff, but [...]
Defining Frugality Down
Posted in Living well, Politics and Society, tagged economy, McSweeneys, Provident Living, recession on March 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency features some of the most clever, literate humor out there today. However, one recent piece, “This Recession Is Awesome!“, where a young kid is happy that his parents’ financial problems are making them give up the expensive things that he hates in favor of the cheap things he loves, had two fatal [...]
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