Rob Lifford

So, we can all pretty much agree that the American economy is going to hell in a handbasket. It also seems clear that nobody really knows what to do about it, so even though I’m not an economist, a policy specialist, or anything that even remotely qualifies me to propose a solution, I’m gonna go [...]

There are many indicators of a healthy or troubled economy, but I never took economics (stupid, stupid, stupid!) so I’m not in a position to tell you much about them.
However, I got curious tonight about one of those indicators, the National Debt, and did some research. Here’s a quick look at what I found (data [...]

I’m snipping this and posting it here just so I have a place to refer people when they ask, as they sometimes do, what the hell the appeal is of Twitter (for me, at least). This nails it:
Twitter is a social network, yes, but it’s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise and, [...]