May 2010

Taxes, Government, the Tea Party, and America’s Way of Life

May 19, 2010

Listening to NPR’s All Things Considered during a quick grocery run this afternoon, I heard newly triumphant Tea Partier Rand Paul trumpeting on about what he thinks of as his “moderate” views on the future of American government: basically, get rid of everything that costs anyone anything. The Americans with Disabilities Act, he tells us, [...]

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Another Tax Hike!

May 19, 2010

Well, for the first time in recorded history, Arizona’s right-leaning voters approved a one-cent sales tax on food. We’re told by the state’s fuzzy, Tea-Partying leadership that this tax will get us off the economic shoals on which we have been cast by the crash of the Bush economy. The public schools will be rescued, [...]

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Open Office Users?

May 18, 2010

Is anyone using Open Office’s word processing program? In these precincts, I’m so fed up with Word for Mac. It bogs down the iMac’s system so massively that sometimes it will hang the entire system for several minutes, while it plods through loading or whatever it’s trying to do. Keyboard commands are different from the [...]

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Something Evil This Way Comes…

May 17, 2010

Godlmighty. It’s like living in some retrograde Southern state during the 1950s. Doubt me? Check out this example of Arizona civility, a fine performance by the products of our state’s fine educational system. Image: “We Are All Loyal Klansmen,” sheet music cover. 1923. Public Domain.

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Another Big Expense: Glasses

May 17, 2010

Well, after diddling away $700-plus on clothes a few weeks ago, I’ve done it again. This time, a like amount is going into the optometrist’s pocket. Over the weekend I ordered up two new pair of glasses. Actually, one new pair and a pair of lenses for an existing frame. I’ve never been satisfied with [...]

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Good Corps, Bad Corps…

May 16, 2010

The other day, Budgeting in the Fun Stuff remarked on Frugal Scholar‘s rant about the excruciating customer service emanating from Virgin Mobile. Both bloggers asked readers which corporations are best and worst in the customer (dis)service department. Apparently they touched a hot button. They each got a slew of responses. Among them, we see that [...]

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