Bob McCarty Writes

By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger By now, almost every living American, other than public employees and their union officials, is aware that state governments across the nation are on the verge of fiscal collapse. According to a February 2010 Washington Post report, “Even before financial markets crashed in fall 2008, state governments nationwide had [...]

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Perhaps because a thunderstorm, complete with a lot of lightning, passed through the area late last night, I was intrigued by the video montage of  lightning storm that passed through “Tornado Alley” (i.e., Enid, Okla.) recently.  It comes courtesy of Curtis Tucker, one of the biggest little success stories to surface out of the small [...]

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Barack Obama is out on the campaign trail stoking fears that another Great Depression, complete with bread lines and high unemployment, is just around the bend.  While the financial crisis is indeed serious, the differences between the economy of the 1930s and today are vast. BREAD LINES In a piece earlier this year for the [...]

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I’m stuck in a long-term commitment with my wireless carrier and can’t afford to switch to an Apple iPhone. After watching the iPhone 3G parody video below from The Soup, maybe I don’t really want to switch after all.

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Apple retail stores will open early this Friday, according to an e-mail message I received from Apple today. Unfortunately, I’m locked into a contract with Sprint that will probably end at just about the time Apple begins selling iPhone 100Gs for $29.95 after having been replaced with better technology. Oh well.

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Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog. Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this [...]

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