Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

Missed It By That Much

I was in a Washington Mutual branch today and noticed that they are offering an 8 month CD with a 4.00% APY – with a $1,000.00 minimum and early withdrawal penalties. Not too bad, except… ING is advertising in Kiplingers for a savings account with a 4.10% APY – no minimum, and easy access to […]

“Success Only Has Value If Failure Is An Option”

The title quote was something a friend said to me while we were discussing the sorry state of education. The discussion itself was brought on by a remark that Americans are the “smarties”, a position which I think is in danger (as if we aren’t already way down the list). Truly, I don’t find an […]

Poll Position (updated again)

The AZ Republic claims, based on a Cronkite-Eight poll, that “a growing number of Arizonans favor stricter gun laws”. However, this is also the polling agency that claims widespread voter support for gun control, abortion rights & “putting illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship” Those pronouncements strike me as just…well, wrong. One would assume, […]

The HGTV Effect

I have heard it mentioned that prosecutors are having trouble with what would have previously been sure win cases – they attribute it to the CSI Effect. The jury pool has seen so many forensic shows, they expect every case to come with iron clad physical evidence. If cops can’t nail ’em with fingerprints and […]

Did We Say That? Oops

From Volokh who found it via Instapundit: What Ferraro said is, at least partially, true. There are people supporting Obama because he is black – just as Clinton has gotten votes just because she is a woman. And, I imagine, McCain has a lot of support based on his status as a war hero..Romney got […]

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