You don't have to eat soy cheese to eat vegetarian.

"Of course it's a payroll tax, they take out of my check and get a tax refund next April"

Economic writers use the term "payroll tax" to mean SS and Medicare, without explaining that Federal income tax is outside of the "payroll tax". That is hardly intuitive. Just say Social Security and Medicare, instead

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/02/unemployment/view/index2.html?show=all

Do either of you have an education degree or an education certificate? Have you studied primary and secondary education? Can you write a lesson plan? Do you know how to judge when your results are successful? Have you done any student teaching or mentored with another teacher?

Further, trigonometry and calculus are great skills and your children should learn them as teenagers if they can. They might not have design semiconductors or analyze business cycles with their training, but they will have brilliant insights into how rates work in complicated situations.

Kids could use to get away from their pessimistic parents for a few hours a day.

Where else are you going to put your $$$ if you sell your equities holdings?

The pickaninny dialogue was straight from The Three Stooges and the acting stunk. Modern directors are much better than those of the "golden age of film".

I hadn't read the book, and hadn't seen the film because it was not often on TV or in the video tape store. So, twenty years ago, I saw it was playing in a theater in the next suburb and I needed something to do on a cold Cleveland afternoon.

As others have noted, it sure did not hold up to my expectations considering how grandly hyped it was. I didn't get "Citizen Kane" either.

Thank Gore we have the internet to entertain us now.

I have family members with disabilities (not "LPism") and I know that it is a hell world for a child. Then there is the adult life of shunning and limited job opportunities.

Hi to Mr. and Mrs. Rohloff!

Wind power or other renewable energy, to be more precise than the subject line allows.

The idea is daff. There are more efficient processes than hydrolysis to break water into hydrogen and oxygen, but they are not so efficient that a system starting with photovoltaics or wind turbines will be effective. There is a thermal process to make hydrogen using nuclear power. Building that generating capacity is not very likely.

Just use the wind power to charge batteries.

Or buy a house that is near work and near the grocery store. I only drove 7000 miles last year.

Thanks for the brief article, David Ehrlich.

GG

Must be nice to have all day and nothing to do.

Perhaps Salon's editors could place a useful and tasteful article on the home page instead.

How about a comparison of the efficacy of proposed carbon tax vs. carbon credits for accomplishing climate protection?

They "blocked streaming" or whatever the term is. peace

I read Congressman Barney Frank's website and did not find what I wanted. I want some data that I can put into a letter to my Congressman and Senators.

I will check back for an answer.

A nod to RDisdier upthread--very clever post(s)!

Real bright, Dr. East. :sarcasm:

They commonly mortgage the farm for large amounts.

What about all the other businesses that "got the message" Monday that the financial system is in disarray to say the least and a political football? They are going to cut back on orders of raw materials and cut salary expenses. That is going to take "points" off of the growth of our GDP starting this quarter.

The housing here never had the price inflation that you cite. Even yet, prices of products is not the question. What about the farmer that needs to finance fuel and seed?

You punative amateur economists are way out of your league.

Is that what you want? For houses to stay on the market for a year instead of weeks? For my brother to have no commissions for the rest of 2008?

Are you willing to hold your breath until the automakers are swamped with excess inventory and they idle the plants? Damn us to double digit unemployment like the bad old days of 1982?

What's in it for you?

Paul Krugman endorsed the "bailout" package on Sunday before the vote. He's an professor of economics, you know. Not to mention a much better political writer.

Of course you don't find Latin in dictionary, you troll.

I didn't run to dictionary.com to figure those ones out.

Daddy Warbucks? I was born in the 1960s. I think Little Orphan Annie was already out of the comics by the time I was old enough to read.

Can we have an editor, please?