Archive for the 'Making Your Life Better' Category

The Transfat ban, Longevity and You

Monday, July 28th, 2008

well, it looks like California has become the first state to ban trans fats.
If trans fats are as harmful as is claimed, this is a good thing on the whole. However I have my doubts. The one thing that concerns me is the growing presence of the food and happiness nannies.
Now I have no […]

Excellent Article on How to Get Through Tough Times.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Investopedia via Yahoo . Its all good advice and all worth heeding.

Fireworks

Friday, July 4th, 2008

For all my American Readers on this Fourth of July, please do not use illegal fireworks or shoot off guns illegally. Its a tinderbox out there. Fires are especially bad in California and we don’t need any more.
So please be extra careful and don’t make stuff harder for the fire crews.
For places […]

The Rich Can’t Escape Poor Public Infrastructure

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Barbara Ehrenreich does it again this time via Alternet.
The fact is we are all in it together and when it comes to infrastructure, schools, roads, bridges, public health and the like. We either hang together of hang separately and there is no way around it.

An Article on How Arbitration Steals Your Rights

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

This is from MSNBC’s excellent Red Tape Chronicles Blog and has one of the best intros I’ve seen for an article to whit….

If I told you there was a courtroom in America where consumers lose lawsuits to businesses 94 percent of the time, and there is no chance to appeal, you’d probably never want to […]

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