Social security...ah, me!  Our government is not a for profit company.  It does not grow money, it eats it.  And we tax payers have to continually feed it.  Every one of you who has ever bought savings bonds and received interest on that bond has COST your fellow tax payers money.  That's where the interest you were pa...more

@ someone...a highly efficient semi will only get 6 maybe 8 miles per gallon.  $600 will get you about 150 gallons.  That's 900 miles...if you are lucky.  Driving the legal 14 hours per day and averaging 64.5 mph, $600 per day is highly likely.  (How many professional truckers DON'T average 65 mph?)  If the truck is le...more

One usually expects actions such as this to come from ignorant, uneducated peoples.  Oh, wait!  University of Texas?  Never mind!

Well, 3bug, what goes around comes around.  I have pulled up and stopped, as required by law, to the far right at stop signs on my bike just to have cars pull up on the left and then turn right into me as I am proceeding straight ahead.  Whether you agree with it or not, bikes DO have rights on the highways, they MUST ...more

Read the embedded story, folks.  He DIDN'T save the guy's life.  Two other folks had already pulled him ashore by the time he got there.  Then, despite there being a nurse there to watch over him until the ambulance arrived, the so-called lifeguard decided to stay there also, leaving his zone unprotected for an even lo...more

I don't know enough from what is written here to have an opinion.  I would think, though, that if he went out of his area, then someone should have been covering the area to which he went.  Did he "hot dog" it and ace out another lifeguard whose job it was to protect that area?  If so, then yes he deserves to be fired ...more

I am so tired of folks cutting down bankers...and politicians...and lawyers...and stock brokers.  Geez, folks, if we didn't have any of them we'd have to invent them.  Someone has to do it!   if there were no used car salesmen someone would have to sell used cars.  Then we'd have a used car salesman.  DUH!  I watched t...more

@ Jonny Ringworm That would be seriousLY, not serious!  It's called an adverb.

So many people complain about the supposed pointlessness of this article.  But as one who spends a lot of time in the field, this lets me know that in the future, when with a mixed group, I have a perfectly valid reason to say, "Ladies, you take the lead!".