Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
The economy will fix itself eventually. It’s a foregone conclusion. How long it will take, however, isn’t clear. In my eyes, there’s one way that President Barack Obama and the current government can create jobs, cut costs, earn money and give the economy a major boost in one easy move: Legalize marijuana. Those of you [...] Read more »
It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »
A skyscraper towers above us on the other side of a clear glass roof near Raffles Place. For more imposing images of Singapore, click here. “Why don’t we try looping around that way,” I suggest helpfully. Matt and I have been wandering around this maze of a mall for nearly 15 minutes, trying to find [...] Read more »
The city of Singapore looms above the bay, as seen from the Singapore Flyer. For more economically successful photos of Singapore, click here. Her hand dangled, for all intensive purposes, like a mossy stone, her lightly clenched fist enveloped in the soft caress of the young gentleman at her side. Their fingers didn’t intertwine, but [...] Read more »
Hammocks at Jeff’s Pirate Cove are clearly marked for “adult relaxation only.” For more adult pictures of Guam, click here. As I hiked past old ordinance, decaying weapons, the rusted silhouettes of old buildings and crumbled latte stones (that’s lah-tee, not lah-tay), I began to wonder what life on Guam is truly like. Here [...] Read more »
I guess it’s inevitable that I would make a mistake somewhere along the way. I never would’ve guessed it would happen right off the bat. How to screw the pooch: Forget your CD player in the car. Despite having it returned to you, forget it at your friend’s apartment immediately thereafter cause you were too [...] Read more »