Events

My father has posted his very first eBay listing: 50 decorative tea tins, mint condition. I'm so proud of him. By the way, if you need any tea tins—perhaps for a school project, or an art installation—you have until next Thursday to bid on them.

Over at Talking Points Memo Cafe, Gene Sperling lays out the problems with the proposals to repeal the estate tax: The nation is at war and troops have been having trouble getting the safest equipment. Child poverty has been on the rise for four straight years. Deficits are projected to total $4 trillion in the next ten years, our entitlement challenge is unresolved, working wages have been stagnating or declining, and fixing the estate tax for the top 3 of every 1000 estates in 2011 is what we should...

Anne reports a disturbing trend in modern communications: Apparently "add up" is the new "touch base:" "Let's add up this afternoon to see where you are on the research." I've heard it 5 times this morning, from 2 different people. At least with "touch base" one can kind of see the meaning, even if the phrase doesn't exactly hit one out of the park. But "add up?" I have no idea.

One of my daily digests contained a link to "How to choose the best database for your business." By Oracle. Golly. Which database do you suppose they recommend? Think it's MySql?

The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson wonders why the President (959 days, 2 hours) thinks anyone really believes gay marriage is the most important issue right now: Let's check in on what's happening in the real world: Iraq has become a charnel house for the victims of escalating sectarian slaughter. On Saturday, a car bomb killed 28 people in Shiite-dominated Basra, and hours later gunmen killed nine Sunni worshipers in a mosque. On Sunday, on a road near Baghdad, assassins pulled travelers out of...

Suffering in Carmel again: The dog suffers too: And remember those minor renovations? Here's the "before:" And the "after:"