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The cost of everything hasbeen rising unmercifully, and for many things we’ve made personal cuts. Trying not to use the car for un-necessary trips to the store, cut back on how much food we buy, even though food companies have increased the price while making the packages smaller.

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The Independent of London proclaims that the United States is in a depression.  As evidence it offers two items. 

The first is this picture of “disadvantaged Americans” queuing for aid in New York.

I sure am glad the New York Times is free online. Otherwise, I’d be out here in the hinterland just plugging along not knowing how clueless I am.

Baby boomers who warned decades ago that their out-of-touch parents couldn’t be trusted now sometimes find themselves raising children who — thanks to the Internet and the cellphone — consider Mom and Dad to be clueless, too.

Molly has a complaint. And I can’t help but agree with her. It’s about talking on your cellphone while your butt is on the toilet and those of us in the next stall that have to listen to it.

This is surely a sign that technology and the need to be connected has reached too far into our lives. What’s next? Texting during sex? Chatting on your cell while getting a pap smear? You have to draw the line somewhere and the restroom door is a good place to

I want a basement.  After two major tornadoes have hit my county (one a little too close to home), I am of the mind that we need our own “Special Happy Place.”  (The newspeople kept referring to the “Special Place” last night.  That is funny to me).  We don’t have a Special Place in our house to ride out potential tornadoes.  Our house is not big.  We are low on closets here at the Smiff House and our “hallway” is not much of a hallway.<

"Now is the wrong time to buy a new cellphone."

Jackson Miller provides some astute analysis of the current and near-term mobile phone market, covering iPhone, Blackberry Curve, Nokia N95 and others.

"Now is the wrong time to buy a new cellphone."

Jackson Miller provides some astute analysis of the current and near-term mobile phone market, covering iPhone, Blackberry Curve, Nokia N95 and others.

[The current] mobile phone system... severely limits consumer choice, stifles innovation, crushes entrepreneurship, and has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the mobile-technology world, just as the cellphone is morphing into a powerful hand-held computer.

Right on the money. Literally. (via Fake Steve)

[The current] mobile phone system... severely limits consumer choice, stifles innovation, crushes entrepreneurship, and has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the mobile-technology world, just as the cellphone is morphing into a powerful hand-held computer.

Right on the money. Literally. (via Fake Steve)