My opinion of Calvin and Hobbes has increased 50% http://tinyurl.com/85p99g # Do you think Congress should be able to spend more $ than it takes in? http://tinyurl.com/4pv3nf # “Mr. Forester … wasn’t prone to the law of large organizations, which tend towards mediocrity.” http://tinyurl.com/7k2vxk #

Social Security has made it “economically more ‘rational’ to /free ride/ on the children of others.” http://www.mises.org/story/2451 # Retirement shouldn’t be institutionalized. http://www.mises.org/story/2451 #

reading Joel on Software: Back to Basics – a look at CPUs and strings http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html # reading more from JoS. “It’s harder to read code than to write it.” “All new source code! As if source code rusted.” http://tinyurl.com/4gus # Apparently plastic bottle caps do not get recycled. That’s news to me! http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp http://tinyurl.com/9wqmrs #

Microsoft Zune’s programming mistake: http://tinyurl.com/8zegrt #

For those using Valley Vista Services: “[…] we will collect your […] Christmas trees [before] January 14th.” http://tinyurl.com/7epwr7 # Do savings contract the flow of consumer goods? http://www.mises.org/story/1889 #

“[If] BCS officials […] stage a college football playoff […] USC might win it every year.” http://tinyurl.com/8xcr4t # “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of slavery– and got other ‘landmark’ decisions (like Roe v. Wade) self-evidently wrong” – T.P.I.G.T.T.C. #