I’m home sick today, but I already had this typed out and ready to go.  Enjoy:
In case you forgot, me and my buddies Aaron and Phil went to Chicago this past weekend (well, now two weekends ago) to a Chicago wealth expo, featuring Tony Robbins, Suze Orman, Donald Trump, and Robert Kiyosaki.  If you’re still confused, just scroll down a little.When I left off, it was Sunday morning and we had just seen the hypnotist Marshall Sylver get a woman to eat fire.  Once he was finished, we decided to …

According to England’s The Sun, families across Great Britain could have to pay a ‘global warming tax’ to help the government fight it off.
He was speaking after it was revealed that Environment Secretary David Miliband had already drawn up sweeping green tax plans which he has put to Gordon Brown.
He wrote to the Chancellor: “As our understanding of climate change increases, it is clear more needs to be done.”
Typical families with two children could have to pay up to £1,300 more every year, according to estimates.

There’s one reason not to …

Today’s big headline on Drudge Report says “Allen’s Revenge”: George Allen, republican, exposed Jim Webb’s fiction writing. If you want to be disturbed, here’s a piece:  http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaw.htm. (I’m not sure how long that link will be good).
I guess the quest for Congress this year has resorted to calling Hillary Clinton ugly (which happened this week) and saying that your opponent likes little boys.   What is this, a Republican counter-attack?  Ha ha, one of your people likes underage homoeroticism too!  Got you!  Burn!
Even if it’s the truth, and even though …

President Bush is going to authorize 700 miles of fences along the U.S.-Mexican border today, asserting the tough GOP stance on immigration.
Before you get too happy/sad about this news, consider this:
“A fence will slow people down by a minute or two, but if you don’t have the agents to stop them it does no good. We’re not talking about some impenetrable barrier,” T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing Border Patrol agents, said Wednesday. (Source)
My main problem with illegal immigration is the entitlement attitude …

In case you forgot, me and my buddies Aaron and Phil went to Chicago this past weekend to a Chicago wealth expo, featuring Tony Robbins, Suze Orman, Donald Trump, and Robert Kiyosaki.  If you’re still confused, just scroll down a little.
When we left off, Tony Robbins had just left the stage and everyone was leaving because a boring tax guy starting talking about the magic of deductions.  In the words of Aaron, as we left:  “Duh.”
We went to lunch after that, it being about 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and …

Michael J. Fox recently appeared on a local Missouri ad for a woman named Claire McCaskill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WB_PXjTBo
Stem cell research “gives us a chance for hope,” he says.
Yes.  It does.  But “a chance for hope” doesn’t equal an automatic cure because we dig through babies.
As was the case with the Wisconsin race for governor, this ad gets the Republican side wrong:
“Senator Talent supports medical research including stem cell research that doesn’t involve cloning or destroying a human embryo,” said Talent spokesman Rich Chrismer.
So just because Michael J. Fox says it, doesn’t make …

As promised, here are my notes on my weekend at the Chicago Real Estate Wealth Expo from the Learning Annex:
First, we saw about 75% of it, because we weren’t too interested in seeing Donald Trump speak on Snuday night.  In fact, of all the speakers that were there (at least the big-name ones) he was the one I was the least interested in seeing.  So that worked out all right.
I had prepared extensive maps from the internet before going down, so I had Phil be my navigator the whole way …

I’m actually typing this Thursday night so that I can post it before work Friday and not leave anyone in BPN withdrawal.
My buddies Aaron and Phil are accompanying me to the Real Estate Wealth Expo in Chicago this weekend – I learned about it when my brother showed me an ad for it in some airplane magazine on the way back from Georgia.  Coincidentally, even though I planned this months ago, it just HAPPENS to be  on a Bears bye week.  Sweet.
So right after work, I’ll be heading back and …

According to this, it’s pretty difficult for the smart, overachieving women of America to land a husband.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd subsequently rued that despite succeeding beyond the dreams of her Irish maid ancestors, her odds of landing a husband might have jumped if she, too, never aspired to anything beyond keeping house.
Ever consider that it’s not because Maureen Dowd is smart?  How about because she’s a baby-hating mankiller?
Believe me, most men don’t not marry successful women because they’d rather have them in the kitchen.  Ever consider that the “you …

Mark Foley is set to reveal the name of the Catholic priest who supposedly molested him to the Archdiocese of Miami. Apparently, he was molested when he was a teenager, and it has been responsible for any of his wrongdoings since.
I wanted to link to this story so that I could address the issue as a whole. I don’t think I’m reaching when I say that a lot of the media, or even Foley’s people, will portray the teenage molestation (man, it’s really in vogue to be …