Today was Yom Kippur. I took the day off of work. However, there was one meeting I wanted to be in. I went in for an hour in the afternoon. I was already quite hungry. I was already very thirsty (no, you aren’t allowed to drink either). The meeting was a presentation. To keep the audience involved, you won little prizes for answering questions along the way. Since it was trivia (“What do Apple, Google, and Hewlett & Packard have in common?”), I did just fine. The prizes were Pez dispensers and candy. 20 minutes into the meeting I realized I had a bunch of Pez in my mouth and was idly chewing on them. The fast had been unconciously broken. Muttrox goes to hell. Dang!

(Answer: They were all started in garages.)

As I expected, the earmark that McCain dinged Obama for, the $3 million “overhead projector” is in fact the central projector within the planetarium itself. These are sophisticated technical devices. The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles’ projector cost over $3 million. I’m pretty impressed that’s the worst he could lay at Obama feet. Not very bad at all.

I’ve been trying to find this graph for months.

Take a look at that graph, and tell me the scariest part. That’s right, Medicare. Social Security is not the problem, Medicare is the problem. Whenever you hear someone mention “Entitlements” or “Unfunded Liabilities”, think of this graph. (I’m going to edit it into old posts on this topic also.)