Daily Archives: June 1, 2009

Murderer From White Salmon

OK, it’s just strange to see anything connected to White Salmon in the BBC site. To have that thing be a murder from White Salmon? Weirder still. I graduated from Columbia High School 5 years before this Matthew Fagan, so I’m happy to say I have no memory of the guy. Wow. Janet McCutcheon and FBLA on the BBC. I mean, good for her, right? Hmm. Maybe not the best of ways to break into British media, Janet.

Get Your Checkbook Out…

Daniel Indiviglio over at the Atlantic has a post that references a great chart on the USA Today. It shows that every household in America now is committed to $668,621 of debt, including both Federal and private debt. Now, be honest: where do you think this will end? It won’t be a happy happy joy joy place, I can assure you of that. The sad part is that when I propose that perhaps the government borrowing trillions to get us out of the problem of having trillions of debt isn’t the best of ideas, a large swath of the country thinks I’m insane.