I remember listening to Paul Harvey on the radio as a kid. One or the other of my parents would be listening, and I would too. “And now, the rest of the story,” is a phrase I will always associate with great story-telling. No more.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

I’m always surprised and sort of flattered when one my posts gets picked up by a right-leaning website. I came home from Fanboys and the grocery store to find trackbacks from this website, and a discussion on the topic of this post.

I had originally intended to register there, and left a fairly lengthy comment responding to some of the individual comments. However, apparently the Freepers take their “no profanity” very strictly: I off-handedly said “shit” in my post and shortly thereafter, when I tried to message the person who’d originally posted the link my blog, I learned my comment privilege had been revoked. That’s too bad, but whatever: I got a blog, I can respond here!

This is my comment, in its entirety: (more…)

They keep promising answers, yet they just keep asking more questions …

–Did I mention spoilers? Because: yes. (more…)