Today I got my first AdSense check from Google in the mail, and officially the first money I earned off the internet.  It’s pretty cool to go out and buy groceries with money that came FROM THE INTERNET, so I thought I’d post the fruits of our labor for all to see:

The best item:  A bottle of Pam Cooking Spray made from 100% Olive Oil.  Buy it.  Seriously.

Yesterday was a big news day, so I want to cover two things that happened.
First, Chief Justice and conservative-friendly genius John Roberts, only 52 years old, had a seizure and was hospitalized.  That’s right: the most able-bodied looking justice of them all (http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0609/supremes_0930.jpg), and possibly one of my favorites, is the one with health issues…
…NOT John Paul Stevens, 87-year-old liberal.
Though Roberts is fully recovered, a seizure can’t ever really be a good thing.  I hope he’s all right and lives for another fifty billion years.
In other sad news, Bill Walsh …

I’ve been wondering about what it would be like if one major political party were given control of all three major branches of U.S. government for an extended period (say, 10 years).
Take the Democratic party…please!  Haw haw.  But seriously, take the Democratic party.  Brush aside some dissenters like Joe Biden.  At their core, they have a bunch of values that you can easily determine by being smarter than Forrest Gump.  These values include, in no discernible order:
-More environmental regulation
-Higher taxes for the rich
-Abortion legalized
-Out of Iraq quickly
-Universal health care
-Allow Mexicans …

Usually I shy away from the “Today Show” – type features (”coming up:  Does chocolate increase the risk of delicious?”) but this one was a little too eerie to skip over, even if you’ve already heard it.
There’s this cat named Oscar in Rhode Island that lives in some sort of medical center where a lot of old people seem to be – then again, I don’t know if they’re old, I might be filling in the gaps.  Oscar’s unique ability is that he’s really, really good at predicting deaths.
He does …

You want to know why minimum wage increases don’t work?  They’re too obvious.  Economics is difficult to understand, but I do know one thing about human beings: we’re self-polarizers.  We don’t want to have anything to do with socioeconomic equality.  And when the government enforces socioeconomic equality on us, we do whatever we can to break back into a rich/poor world.
Raising the minimum wage to help the poor.  Let me say it in more logicial terms: more money…..for POOR PEOPLE.  This is along the same line of thinking as the …

One of the big news stories from earlier this week (aside from Lindsay Lohan’s addiction to cocaine) was that the minimum wage increased up from $5.15 an hour.
What you might not have heard about was that CNN’s “American Morning” business reporter Ali Velshi thought it was just dandy.
That’s after the business reporter previously made the mistake of thinking $5.15 an hour came to $900 a week (174-hour workweek?  What would Tim Ferriss say?).
Here’s what Velshi said specifically:
“[T]here is unmitigated good news,” Velshi said on the July 24 “American Morning.” “There …

Click on the picture for info on Lindsay Lohan’s DUI and cocaine possession charge.
Maybe it’s wrong that Lindsay Lohan reminds me how good it feels not to be a coke-addicted drunk who has to deal with embarrassment in front of the world. Then again, maybe it’s not.

My brother sent me a recent column written by his archenemy, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane (my archenemy is Jim Doyle, even if he’s never heard of me).  By the way, everyone should have an archenemy.
http://blogs.jsonline.com/raisingkane/archive/2007/07/23/deer-hunters-speak-out.aspx
Essentially, Eugene Kane is able to generalize about people he doesn’t know much about, even though he complains about the exact same thing when someone does it to him. And he’s black, so that makes it especially okay to be a racist.
His recent column wasn’t about that, though.  It was about a Wisconsin pasttime: deer hunting.
Case …

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070722/D8QHSQQ81.html
Romney took it to the Big Three Democrats recently, saying Edwards, Obama, and Hillary – who haven’t even run “corner stores” before – have no idea how money works, even saying Hillary has some Marxist ideas. He even tried to coin a new word for her healthcare plan – HillaryCare.
Listen, Romney, you’re preaching to the choir. Your base doesn’t want universal healthcare any more than (they) we want to see a Democrat in the White House. And evoking Marx and calling out all top three Democrats? …

Mitt Romney might have just won himself a spot higher on the BipolarNation Presidential Power Rankings.  For years, this phenomenon in today’s technological world has gone unnoticed and ignored by the government:
Internet pop-ups.
It’s not just that; it’s the unwanted internet porn popups that drive you crazy.  I was just looking at a website about the War of 1812!
“And you know, type in a wrong letter and bingo, you get all sorts of stuff you didn’t want, that I’d just as soon my kids not get,” added Romney, who’s a father …