Frozen Toothpaste

Maxed Out is a moving and scathing indictment of those that enable and perhaps encourage fiscal irresponsibility, chiefly credit card companies, but also Republican politicians, and federal bureaucrats. Talking to a smattering of outside analysts, observers, and perhaps even “victims,” James Scurlock’s documentary is a fine piece of muckraking, perhaps a testament to the genres […]

This week’s quote is from Ariana Huffington’s 2004 book, Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America. I concede that I’ve never read it, but I found the quote while wondering if charity alone could ever make up for all the inequalities inherent in the world’s current situation.
I have no greater heroes than […]

Where it now stands, Frozen Toothpaste has been online at this address for a little more than two months. So perhaps it’s too early to do something that the President only does annually. But then, this blog is much younger than this country, and I don’t need primetime network TV space to give a State […]

While trolling the internet, I came upon a rather pedestrian claim that in the coming election the liberals will try to “get God” as a way to convince Americans that there are issues more important than ending abortion and stopping gay marriage.
The claim is profoundly absurd, not least of all because by now most Americans […]

While visiting grandparents, I couldn’t avoid notice of the difference in the information systems they had. That is, the bandwidth that they had flowing into their houses.
My mother’s parents are frugal to the point of being mildly absurd. That is, they still (well, last time I checked) have pulse dialing on their home phone at […]