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Bush and Kerry made some big contributions this year to the national coffers

Bush made $822,126 and paid $227,490 in taxes
Kerry made $395,338 and paid $90,575 in taxes

I find it interesting that the taxes public officials pay help to pay their own salaries as government employees.
Pay up here.

Hard to believe, in this day and age, that we are having separate black and white high school proms. I remember thinking, when I was in high school, that integration was a done deal. I even thought racism was on its last legs. Then I went to the University of Michigan and saw separate […]

I certainly hope the president has a stronger performance tonight than he did with Tim Russert on Meet the Press. You have to wonder about his choice of a live press conference as he does not do all that well live and off the cuff. I hope he has not misunderestimated how […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if cars could drive themselves. I was just thinking of the very cool things that might be possible if this became mainstream. For one thing, cars could go a lot faster, and travel closer together. Traffic problems could be much better if not over all together.
Also, regional air travel […]

Kerrey gets to revise his statement with the help of Matt Lauer on Today.

Today, the Sox begin another season at Fenway park. Could this be the year?
Meanwhile, the Detroit Tigers are 4 and 0. Go Tigers!

Ok. Everybody loves TIVO… and so do I. Instead of boring you with how fabulous it is, I thought I would simply enumerate the things that bug me about it:

The beep sound effects are annoying (but can be turned off)
Jon Stewart Season Pass records all the reruns
I have to scoll forever to get to […]

Violence once again erupted in Storrs, Connecticut after the women won the NCAA championship. According to news reports:
“Two hours after the women’s basketball team won its third-straight NCAA championship, fans overturned two cars and set one of them on fire Tuesday night…”
Human nature? When my alma mater won the NCAA Championship back in […]