If the recent Judd Apatow offering, Bridesmaids, had been rated PG-13, it may have become one of my favorite comedies of all time.Kristen Wiig has been my favorite Saturday Night Live cast member for years now. Her comedic timing is simply incredible (the most essential ingredient in humor pie.) Also,...

This weekend, I watched the most recent episode of Shark Tank. It's a wonderfully edutaining show for the entrepreneurial-minded among us. The show format is that entrepreneurs pitch their company to 5 angel investors. And based on the objective value and potential of the idea, the investors choose whether or...

Let's finish up this fairly economics-heavy week in thought with John Maynard Keynes, the economic mind who most shapes our modern day macroeconomic decisions.Keynes came to bring order to capitalistic chaos. To try and prevent massive roller coaster swings and depressions. The idea that the government could effectively intervene -...

I had a frightening feeling the other day that we're not learning from other's mistakes. That we not only expect kids to to make the same idiotic choices we made, but think they must in order to learn the consequences for themselves.That's a ridiculous proposition, and one that will result...

Have you seen the new Bank of America commercials that show how you can deposit checks via ATM, and they'll print you out a receipt with the check image on it? Pssh. That's SO last year. This past weekend, I downloaded Chase's mobile banking app and deposited a check without...

This is an example of perfect Facebook group interaction, where I temporarily forget that the world's not really full of awesome people like this.

Shouldn't Universal Healthcare be called National Healthcare? I think we may be giving outsiders too much hope with that naming structure.For instance, when I question Federal spending on Medicare, my charitable friends often tell me that i'm putting a number on people's lives. I am. because that number exists. For...

A few years ago, I signed up for Baskin Robbins e-mail club, but lied about my birthday because I didn't want to wait 11 months for the free scoop coupon I knew I'd be sent. (My real birthday had just passed).I never cash this coupon in however, because the paranoid...

"Blessed is the day when a man stops concerning himself about whether or not he is right, and starts concerning himself with what "right" is."

I experienced relief upon the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden.Now, this relief is quite a different emotion than the happiness, or even jubilation that some seem to be having at the same news.Osama Bin Laden was an evil man, who deserved to die. And, if given the...