2008 Christmas Party

Amanda’s office Christmas party was tonight.  Not only do I enjoy the free food and open bar, but we have a chance to dress up nice and go out for the Christmas party every year, which I enjoy.  On the downside, Amanda wanted me to wear some terribly uncomfortable black shoes.  They were terrible, so […]

New Head Coach for the Duke Blue Devils Men’s Basketball Team

Nick and Amy Warkentien came over tonight and brought with them the movie Vantage Point.  I think we all liked it pretty well overall.  I was expecting it to be more of something along the lines of Rashomon, where different people tell their recollections of the same event and either the true version is revealed […]

$700 Billion

The bailout bill, a $700 billion package to fix the financial crisis, didn’t pass the House today.  $700 billion.  Let’s write that out.  $700,000,000,000.00.  That’s a lot of freaking zeroes.  Democrats are blaming Republicans for putting ideology before the interests of the country and Republicans are blaming Democrats because Nancy Pelosi made a partisan speech […]