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Back to the State of the Union speech. The President explained that the current deficit is a result of “not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program.” The solution?

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It’s pretty awesome if you stop and think about it. One pre-dawn bowling session brought in more than 2,000 cans of food. Still one problem remains. . . .

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The bus rides back to Wayne from Duluth, Minnesota were probably the best examples of the few downsides of running track at Wayne State—at the time, the southern-most school in the NSIC, which meant lots of time in a bus. 50 or 60 college kids, one bus, seven hours, the drive didn’t start until 8 or 9 p.m., and the end of the ride meant feeling the effects of running a 10K and then sitting on a bus for seven hours. The bus had televisions, which was nice—but the volume was always set to that you-didn’t-want-to-sleep,-did-you? level of screaming. Yes, actually, sleep would be really nice.

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Here’s a vote for “no.”

Wrecks involving old cars are a lot like wrecks involving any newly recalled Toyota: far more often than not, the cause is not mechanical. The cause is the driver, and there’s no recall procedure for that.

New cars will have problems, but old cars have far more. And—just as is the case with bad drivers—there is no recall procedure for age, which is why Toyota’s recall should cause concern for neither Toyota drivers nor the drivers who share the road with them.

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Bang for Your Buck is one of the more entertaining shows on HGTV. It’s somewhat related to HGTV’s House Hunters International series, except that it taunts the real estate decisions of rich yuppies instead of glorifying them. As it turns out, some rich yuppies handle criticism about as well as a Taliban gang deals with the sight of a nude beach.

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