Yesterday, Nate Silver posted an article as a ‘pre-buttal’ to the inevitable complaints of conservatives audited in the last few years (yes, many conservatives and liberals will be randomly chosen per year).  Turns out, a number of prominent conservative donors – some prominent only because they appeared in Democratic campaign material (in one example, directly [...]

I don’t have a lawn right now – just a pile of leaves.  One member of the family doesn’t mind at all… Links We Liked! Ironically, after engaging with our friends at Control your Cash and Hull Financial Planning about Timeshares (in the negative), we were followed on Twitter by a Timeshare company.  Kids, just [...]

Has someone else already said something like this quote? “I’ve got a sense of time, but I haven’t got much sense.  Or much time.” I woke up with it in my head, haha.  Feel free to use it, just send me some royalty checks! Links We Liked! First link?  The first web page ever!  Resurrected [...]

Summer so soon?  Got to love the Bay Area. We’re working on building a guitar this weekend, haha. Moonlighting A reminder – if you want some coding help from your favorite writer on the site (me), send me an email if you want to discuss projects or rates.  I’m aiming mainly at visualizations, data mining [...]

Links We Liked! The (Economics) news of the week was the Microsoft Excel bug which changes the results of the Reinhart and Rogoff study on Debt to GDP and economic growth.  (R&R response 1, 2).  This is the study often cited to claim that 90% debt to GDP is the dropoff point for Economic Growth [...]

I thought the recent price break on 2013 Les Paul Specials (the faded Desert Burst double humbucker models) were the steal of the century – American made Les Pauls, marked down to $499 on Easter, with a 5% off coupon at Guitar Center that worked on Gibson (that’s the real trick on coupons), and 2% [...]

We recently read the eponymous book (subtitle: Making Money Make Sense) from our friends at Control Your Cash:   (And yes, we paid full price). For those of you who haven’t aren’t familiar with the “behind the scenes”… scene… in the Personal Finance sphere, the co-writers of Control Your Cash are a bit controversial (Greg [...]

Nice day to attend a wedding, isn’t it? Thanks to our friend Robert at The College Investor for highlighting us as a top-19 Investing blog.  We do our best on the investment front, even though we definitely write more on macro views versus micro.  Stay tuned for all sorts of weird writing you don’t normally [...]

That was one of the most interesting weeks for civil liberties in a long time. As you know from last Weekender, our friend Derek Khanna was leading a media blitz to promote unlocking cell phones.  It coincided with a petition to get the White House to take up the unlocking issue – which we’re happy [...]