I have to credit a friend from college with pointing this out:
Here’s President Obama on the stimulus, from his 2010 State of the Union Address:
The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That’s right -– the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus [...]
Archives for January 2010
The broken window.
Protected: Zero.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
This is a job for…
This past Monday, I stayed after school for a meeting of the creative writing club I sponsor, except that apparently there was no meeting. One girl showed up. I told her to have a seat and we’d wait, but if no one else showed up in the next half hour, I’d have to take her [...]
The Tens.
A friend of mine, “Ted,” posted the following as his status on Facebook a few days before the New Year:
TED: 2010 is NOT the start of the a new decade! Decades run 1-10, centuries 1-100, and millenniums 1-1000. Remember there was no year 0000. Happy New Year to all.
We’ll just chalk the semantically confusing “the [...]
Resolutions for 2010.
Happy New Year, and here’s to the Twenty-Tens! (This reminds me: I have to post a transcript of an argument over whether this year constitutes the start of a new decade.) Time to renew some old resolutions, new some new ones, and old some old ones. Let’s see how my Aught-Nine resolutions went:
1. I shall [...]