Progressive Odyssey

Here's a great visual depiction of the budget President Obama has proposed, put together by the NY Times. Items of notes: According ...

Below is a fantastic little short movie that I'm watching on a regular basis now because it reminds me so much of where I grew up and wh...

A week ago it was 70 degrees outside. Today the high was 28 degrees. In the past week we had several inches of snow, some relatively fierc...

I convinced my brother in-law that we should go see "Tron: Legacy" while he was in town recently and we choose to lay out the big ...

As of yesterday, I have completed all the requirements for my Master's degree. I took my final test of the semester (Statistics) and re...

In terms of posts to this blog, I've written a lot about the Federal deficit and balancing the budget. This is one more item on that li...

Do you make your own cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving (or any other holiday meal) or do you buy it in a can? If you don't make your own...

Its not accumulating here in Wichita but it is snowing. See for yourself

It's all but official. I defended my thesis this last Friday and now just have some editing, probably a bit more formatting, and hopefu...

We've been working with Basil to train him to go and get the paper in the morning; we anticipate this trick being very handy for the com...

David Leonhardt must have been reading my blog because, on a nationally syndicated radio program ( Marketplace ), echoed nearly exactly (a...

That's how I'd describe this video; its an example of everyday amazing. There are cooler videos out there, I'm sure and other p...

I know I just wrote about this a few posts ago but one of my favorite podcasts ( Planet Money ) mentioned a report that effectively gave a ...

I've ranted about this before : I have no love for the health insurance I currently have. There are many things to complain about but t...

"I'm addicted to feeding the squirrels."

I recently found an interesting report outlining how the income and expenditures of the federal government broken out by state. In partcular...

My first lecture has come and gone as a instructor at Wichita State University. It went well. Despite the late hour of the class (5:35pm to ...

Two days out of the week I have long days at school, about twelve hours on campus. While I was waiting for my last class of the day I notic...

Yesterday I got a few more keys to add to the growing ring, today I was given another and received training on how to use the projector syst...