Recent hearings on the Secret Service by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee proved entertaining and educational. For example, in 2011 someone had fired shots at the White House but Secret Service bosses wrote this off as a car backfiring, rather unlikely since all cars now have fuel injection. And even with carburetors,…
Read More »
The national debt is that it is so big that it can be difficult to describe the magnitude of the nation’s liabilities in terms that make sense on a human scale. That didn’t stop Mick Teufel from trying, though! Here’s his attempt to describe the size of the national debt using the metaphor that…
Read More »
 |
 |
 |