Monthly Archives: January 2007

Minimum Wage and Economists

Back in Octo­ber of 2006, the Eco­nomic Pol­icy Insti­tute released a paper that made lots of headlines.  The title of the paper was “Hun­dreds of Econ­o­mists Say: Raise the Min­i­mum Wage”.  In it, 659 econ­o­mists signed on for sup­port of rais­ing the min­i­mum wage to $7.25 which is apro­pos of the cur­rent debate in Con­gress …

January 25, 2007 – 10:38 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Money, Random | Comments (0)

A Uniquely 21st Century Problem

K recently asked me about our money sit­u­a­tion is, where things stand and where we are going. I told her that we prob­a­bly wouldn’t buy much stock any time soon because I don’t believe the econ­omy is in good shape at all and that 2007 will be bad news eco­nom­i­cally, specif­i­cally in rela­tion to what …

January 23, 2007 – 11:02 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Money, Random | Comments (0)

Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

And good dis­eases come with hot chicks and puppies.

January 11, 2007 – 10:46 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

Executive Decision

I’ve decided that peo­ple on the Inter­web are all idiots and morons and that peo­ple should really just agree with what­ever I say and we’d all be happier.  Is that so hard to under­stand? More seri­ously, why is it so dif­fi­cult to have an intel­li­gent con­ver­sa­tion with peo­ple on the web?  What about human nature …

January 10, 2007 – 9:36 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

An Elk

This is a pic­ture Kat took in Col­orado this sum­mer. I’m just play­ing around with Picasa.

January 6, 2007 – 9:44 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Photography, Random | Comments (0)

Lego Genius

This is quite pos­si­bly the most awe­some thing I’ve ever seen built with Legos. And yes, that’s pretty short list but still. Some­day, Amer­cia won’t be the leader in tech­nol­ogy if that’s any indication.

January 6, 2007 – 8:06 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)