If I didn't know better I would swear that it was a painting of you...

Three things I noticed in the Harvard video. 1) No one was wearing seatbelts. Every year or two you hear a story about a wreck with one of these 12-passenger vans where someone is killed, and they were never wearing seatbelts. I am surprised that organizations that use these haven't instituted a seatbelt policy just to protect themselves from the bad PR. 2) I also noticed that everyone in the van is white. I looked at their roster and verified that there is only 1 non-Caucasian on the team. In today's athletics I would have expected more diversity. 3) I spend way too much time analyzing BON posts.

I doubt you meant to post this secret information for all to see...

Prostitution is not against federal law. It is a local/state law otherwise it could not be legal in parts of NV. So, the agents would not have broken any US law which would make your point irrelevant.

Regarding the Secret Service, I wonder how their employment contract is worded to justify firing them. As I understand it, prostitution is legal in that country. If that is the case, then they were breaking no laws. So, does their contract have some sort of 'morals' clause that supersedes local laws? Is it similar to Baseball's 'best interest of the sport' clause that allows them to punish even when no specific rule was broken? In no way am I justifying what they did, I am just curious how they are justifying the firing.

I thought this was a great post on the subject of student loans (http://tinyurl.com/7zttbjj). As someone that is involved in the financial counseling ministry at my church I know that many, if not most people that use student loans never consider their long term impact. They just assume that they must get a college degree and sign up for loans because that is what everybody else does. I don't think parents owe their kids a college education, but I do think they owe their kids sound advice on avoiding student loan debt.

I learned the car payment vs. repair cost thing from my dad and realized that you can seldom justify the cost of a new car solely as a response to an expensive repair. That is why I am still driving a 96 Maxima with 175,000+ miles on it.

Also, I have the same issue about the test drive experience vs. the ownership experience. I have found that if you look hard enough you can find a rental company that rents many car models. Before we bought my wife's current car we were able to rent one for a weekend trip to verify how it fit. It helped verify the pros and cons. If a rental company doesn't have it you should as, the dealer for a weekend loaner.

"eye-candy"? You trying to steal some of Barry's readers?

Nah, the cat is trying to claw the baby for crying but just figured out that it's human has declawed it

The WTC twitter link doesn't seem to work. This is the info for anyone trying to find it on twitter: @wtcprogress