I said it 10 years ago, and I'll say it again: Deregulation of utilities is a bad idea.  10 years ago many Marylander friends called me "anti-business". After all, they argued, business can do things better than government. Business has an incentive to provide the consumer with b...

by Scott Huffines I was reading The Sun’s article "BGE blames extreme cold, other factors for higher bills" in which Baltimore Gas and Electric blamed the extreme cold along with other factors such as videogames and plasma televisions for higher electric bills this winter. When they test...

Huh. Turns out porn-hating conservatives actually really, really like porn after all. "When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," says Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those sta...

Wow. So it turns people who drive Hummers are 5x as likely to be the douchebags you assume they are for driving Hummers. People who drive Hummers receive almost five times as many traffic tickets as the average driver, according to a new study...."The sense of power that Hummer drivers derive f...

Conservatives REALLY don't want to see the Obama stimulus plan work. They REALLY don't want to see the coming of a second New Deal. They REALLY don't want their core principle that "Government is the problem" totally destroyed for all the public to see. So they're attacking...

Teens who take virginity pledges, it turns out, are just as likely to have sex as teens who do not. However, there is one thing virginity pledge teens do less of than other teens, that's use any form protection against pregnancy or STDs. This comes as an added surprise to those who thought teens...

While on retreat with my family in Maui, one of the books I am reading is a book by Malcolm Caldwell, author of the book OUTLIERS, and before that the landmark book (which everyone should read) THE TIPPING POINT. In the book Gladwell made a point which struck me like a ton of books, as it relates di...

Over the break I’ve been taking over Christmas, one of my goals was to move the remainder of my Virtual Server “production� VMs across to Hyper-V. But when nearing completion, I noticed that Server Manager was reporting a role error: Looking at the detail of the event logs, it was Event ID 409...

Financial literacy (understanding the language of money) is absolutely essential to living a successful and independent life. That is what we are all learning as a result of a global economic crisis. It is what what comes to be obvious, when you recognize that the U.S. economy, the largest in the wo...

Remember, we can't just willy-nilly let 2 consenting adults marry, cuz that would mean we would have to redefine the Biblical definition of the word "marriage," and we could NEVER do that. So, time to return "marriage" to it's traditional, Judeo-Christian definition and s...