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Month: April 2022
Schools should teach personal finance
They didn’t teach it to us in high school and I think they should have. The states that are doing it or plan to are a mix of red and blue states – this shouldn’t be political. Even the despicable Ron DeSantis supports it.
It’s especially important now since there is fraud online. I know. My personal information was hacked from work records and I have had to cancel three credit cards. I also had my information used to buy an iPhone – I know because I got the bill in the mail! I recently had to deal with a situation where my information was used to try (unsuccessfully) to get a payday loan.
The best books to read to get smarter about your money, according to personal finance experts
Amusing baseball scoreboard failure
Another rant by me about excessive media coverage of Trump
It’s the same old lies. We don’t need to hear them over and over.
White Tower architecture
White Tower Hamburgers was a restaurant chain that was founded in 1926. There is only one left. Here are pictures of the old buildings. Here’s an article from RoadsideArchitecture.com.
Architects Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour wrote a book about the buildings, White Towers, that was originally published in 1979. It was reissued in 2007. I have a paperback copy of the first edition
White Towers Revisited was an exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. I saw it and thought it was excellent. Here are two articles on the exhibit.
Penn exhibit revisits White Tower fast-food chain
Two lists of romantic comedies
The first list was almost all modern movies so another person prepared a list of older films. I know the old ones better and there are some great ones there like Ball of Fire, Bringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, The Lady Eve and The Philadelphia Story.
Wastewater surveilance for covid
Right-wing extremists now target libraries
First it was CRT, then math books, now libraries. Terrible.
Ford Mustang introduced on 4/17/64
Now this was a cool car. I had a red plastic model of it. I also lived near the 1964 World’s Fair and went there several times. It was great.
Trump-appointed judge strikes down CDC travel mask mandate
The ABA rated her not qualified when she was nominated.
Sad! 