Current Affairs

Feel overwhelmed with all your money related tasks?  You’re not alone.  Everything from tracking your cell phone charges to 401K to your checking account seems to take more and more time these days. Money Takes Up a Lot of Time – New York Times.

Children born via sperm donors are finding their brothers and sisters via web pages.  Nobody knows how many children are born to sperm donors each year, but one estimate puts it at 30,000 a year! Hello, I’m Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150. – New York Times.

Want to know what the car seat laws are in each of the 50 states?  The only site I found that listed all 50 states and their laws was a UK site.  Child Car Seats : Other Countries : United States of America.

According to Warren Farrell in Exploiting the Gender Gap – New York Times women make less than men by choice.  According to Farrell, women choose to work fewer hours, travel less and occupy safer occupations.  Single, childless women make 177% of their childless male counterparts and "people who work 44 hours a week make, on

They got the NY subway pervert whose picture was published online. NY subway perv busted by mobe snap | The Register.

At least one person is predicting $4/gallon soon: Consumers can expect retail gas prices to rise to $4 a gallon in the near future, Ben Brockwell, director of pricing at the Oil Price Information Service, said Wednesday. "There’s no question gas will hit $4 a gallon," he said. "The question is how high will it

I know it’s an editorial, but what are they trying to imply?  That President Bush shouldn’t take vacations?  Is the middle of an article about the New Orleans disaster the right place to put this type of commentary? or even to point out that it took what may become the worst natural disaster in American

I read a really interesting article about Gregory Berns’s book, Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment, that says that humans really want satisfaction, not pleasure.  We want challenges and experiences that give us a feeling of satisfaction, not easy experiences that are just pleasurable.  It was interesting to think about. If you do something

Ever wondered about all those taxes on your phone bill that you’ve never heard of? Turns out they are not taxes at all. "Property tax allotment" charge, for instance, is nothing more than the property taxes that the carrier pays. The "carrier cost recovery fee" is a catch-all for many kinds of operating expenses; the

This article,  Experts Warn Debt May Threaten Economy – Yahoo! News, did a good job of explaining our current debt situation and how our attitude and habits contribute to it.   I particularly resonated with this quote: "I see people younger than me with comparable jobs that drive new vehicles and have a boat and mortgage