Denso (and others) Plea Guilty To Price Fixing – Coming soon, “Shame on Denso” signs in front of Alcoa Highway Wal-Mart. Has the Higher-Ed Revolution Begun? – I’ll take advantage of the CS courses, but I’d really love to see a business school offer this type of program. We may have to wait all the way until next year for something like that. What’s Wrong With the Teenage Mind? –   Read More ...

There are a few things they could have done to help themselves gain votes with Floridians: Campaigning here in August instead of January. Florida in January is a no-brainer. Who really wants it? Participating in a spelling bee with only Spanish words. Having a first name that isn’t a four-letter word. Having a first name that sounds like a name instead of an inanimate object. Lobbying consulting with the National   Read More ...

Portraits of Financial Normalcy – Some financial personality categories from @daveramsey. Eight Crazy Constitutional Scenarios – HT @kleinheider. This reminds me of those crazy scenarios that can turn up in baseball. In baseball, they seem to actually turn up eventually too. BMI(wife) < BMI(husband) Means a Happier Marriage – Good news for me. Barring an amputation, no danger of this changing any time soon. Elected Official Constitutional Knowledge: Disgraceful –   Read More ...

Prediction — a pretty short speech that’s very abstract on the details (hardly an outline) that is moving and uplifting…until you realize there aren’t any details. I’m guessing this is pretty much a political effort to attempt to keep folks in these parts positive on his plan until after the November elections. After that, NASA gets poleaxed. You have to know it’s the secret dream every freshman studying aerospace engineering   Read More ...

A Democrat challenger to Obama in 2012? I’d like to see a Colbert/Stewart/Olberman run for the office of Triumvirate. At least it would be funny.