Recommendations

Until we have a few more adventures to post, we thought we’d do what many bloggers do and recommend a few links.

Cost Of War
For those that remember Jim’s project 18 months ago called MyWarTax, the concept/code was donated a few months ago to the National Priorities Project, which attracts more than 100K hits a month and now uses it as the Individual Tax Calculator. More people now see what they personally pay for Iraq: http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar/individual

Absentee Ballots
Hoping to add to the record voter turnout this year, we delivered our ballots to the US Embassy a few weeks back. But a friend sent this video to Jim of what could have happened if we hadn’t…
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=maRCuUhEUeGekF5iTrdlNjM0NDI3MDg-_by=11169223-k5IJosx

Credit Crisis
Whether we like it or not, it seems we’re all now in a big Macroeconomics class together. This podcast below covers the crisis in a way that one can actually understand.
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=94411890

And for an inside view on how the sub-prime crisis got going in the first place, this is a fascinating listen:
http://www.thislife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=355