the game of life

Here’s why you need to fund your own retirement plan, independent of what your employer offers.  More so if you’re under 30, since Social Security is bound to take a hit (accelerated age indexing?  means testing? reduced eligibility?) in the near future. Read more

FLOTUS as fashion victim.  What a mean photographer photoshopper! Tammy Bruce’ comment ain’t bad, either: " I know the lovely woman on the left is Spain’s Princess Letizia. The one in the middle, I have no idea, but she can be whomever she wants." Update (22 August).  It’s a fake!  Some grinchy photoshopper reminds us Read more

Will Briggs departs from the statistical to post some excellent and witty advice on hats.  Some excerpts: Hipster hats can be tried, but you run the risk of being mistaken for an Obama supporter or a person in need of a shower. …A baseball cap is a miserable device for preventing the rain from creeping Read more

"You’ve graduated from a good college with a humanities or social sciences degree. You can’t find a good job, so you’re living at home and letting your parents pay your bills. What should you do?"  Get a job, any job, says Joanne Jacobs.  Well, duh.  Money in is better than money out. Read more

The Instapundit blogged it as a disaster prep checklist.  Wrong!  It’s a take-control-of-your-life checklist. Read more

Up to now, it was common wisdom that a commercial neighborhood was in its death throes when the murals started appearing. But now we’re modern, so it’s icebergs! Read more

Knoxville, Tennessee, OKs backyard chickens, but no roosters.  Some sharp feller could make some beer money with a temporary rent-a-rooster service for flocks that stop laying. The alternative is to use my Mom’s definition of a hen that’s stopped laying: a stewing chicken.Tip from the Instapundit, who is mute about his own chicken plans. Read more

Jason Richards has some advice for aspiring geeks.  In my taxonomy of promising students, I want them to progess: nerd – enthusiastic, but socially and intellectually inept geek – enthusiastic and knowledgeable (with some Mad Skilz), but still socially awkward wonk – enthusiastic, expert, a polished communicator, and socially adaptable Tip from–where else?–the GeekPress. Read more

Some heroes throw themselves onto a grenade, others onto a mattress. Well done, Nikki Carpenter. Read more

An interview with anti-rudeness ninja Amy Alkon: So the other thing we can do, that everybody can do, is to treat strangers like neighbors. All that takes is doing small kindnesses for people. …You’ve met a stranger. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more