I always find too many informative political and economic articles to share, so I’ll select a few and throw them all in to one post of important stuff you should read to get your week started:
1. Maybe we shouldn’t be blaming our leaders for not being able to lead:
A thought-provoking read from Slate.com: Down With [...]

The Great Wahl crowd tends to lean to the left or, at the very least, can’t stand Sarah Palin. I know everyone enjoys a good political bashing — and today, I’ve got a really good one.
Slate recently ran a “write like Sarah Palin” competition in honor of her book, Going Rogue.
They just posted twelve of [...]

Early in the season, we got a free preview weekend of the NFL RedZone Channel.
I couldn’t agree more — The Red Zone Channel Is Crack for NFL Fans:
Diehard football fans have long been able to watch whatever game they wanted via DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket. Failing that, you could always go to a sports [...]

The other day, I shared with you Google’s new music search function. In an never-ending effort to improve the quality of your life, I bring you two more ways Google can make your life better. The first is tangible. The second is just interesting/thought-provoking.
1) You can set up your regular voicemail through Google Voice:
It sounds [...]

I’ve always been of the opinion that companies that take advantage of the uneducated and poor, just because they can, should be charged as criminals. Calling me a bleeding-heart would be too much, since normally I don’t have any sympathy for most people, but something genuinely bugs me about ‘legally’ swindling people under the guises [...]

Sure, XX is the chick section of Slate, but that doesn’t mean that all of their articles are completely worthless to men. As proof of my point, I came across an article about how The Recession Wrecks Friendships. Most of the article is fluffy b.s. and feelings, but there are a couple valid points:
But the [...]