This morning, to celebrate it's 10th Anniversary, Google announced Project 10^100 (pronounced 10 to the 100th), offering $10 million to its winners. 10^100 is searching for ideas that will change the world or at least help a great many people. Seeing as how this is my 100th blog...

Lehman Brothers is going bankrupt, Wall Street is trying to avoid a complete collapse and I feel partly to blame. I can't help but feel responsible for the economic downturn we're in. After all, I was given my Economic Stimulus Package check months ago. I know I was supposed to...

After watching both the DNC and RNC (and let's face it, the entire election so far), it's become clear that both parties and their candidates have the "politics as usual" mentality and "Washington insiders" in their sights. At least at the executive level shooting range. Both candidates are being sold...

With the surprise pick of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin for the Republican VP slot, a question quickly arises: doesn't the mother of a four month old baby with Down's Syndrome have enough on her plate without accepting the VP nod? I don't know much about babies, where they come from,...

When Barack Obama introduced Joe Biden as his running mate, he began by stating that as a child Biden had a stutter, that the other children teased him and called him BuhbuhbuhBiden. Kudos to those children!

Name-calling and unwanted nicknames have long been a part of American politics...

McCain doesn't know how many houses he owns (Alzheimer's?). Obama possibly had some shady housing deals that with the convicted Antoin Rezko. Dodd and Conrad got preferential treatment and mortgage terms from Countrywide Financial and are, at best, negligent of what was going on. The "Economic Slowdown" (when do we...

The leaders of the institutions that are supposed to teach the leaders of tomorrow are finally starting to get it right.

A group of college presidents, known as Amethyst Initiative, is trying to lower the drinking age to 18, including presidents from Dartmouth, Ohio State, Tufts, Syracuse, and...

The last few weeks have gotten me thinking, maybe, just maybe, the Apocalypse is near.

Whether it's just a rise in the publicity of random acts of violence, or a rise in random acts of violence, somewhere between the stabbing, beheading and eating of a fellow bus passenger,...

Finally a news source had the backbone to put the hardest questions to our presidential candidates. In an Entertainment Weekly piece, Obama and McCain have revealed their favorite super heroes, celebrities, films, music, and actors in the role of president. The results are both surprising and for a few of...

Since I haven't taken an economic course in a very long time, I've been waiting for somebody, anybody, to take all of the current financial hubbub out of mumbo jumbo and translate it into words I can understand. And Reuters answered my call:

Once, the Federal Reserve's...