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Is it just me, or does anyone else find it a little disconcerting that the U.S. government can’t spend within the current $8.17 trillion debt limit? Or that in order to avoid defaulting, the government has tapped such non-essential funds as government pensions, or the fund that’s supposed to stop our currency from dropping into free fall (like, for example, if we defaulted on our bond payments).

Back in my day, we had to wait for the freezer to cool down our hand-made parfaits. You young whippersnappers just pop it on the antigriddle.

The Freesound project is a “collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. I played with it for all of about five minutes and found a bunch of stuff I never knew I needed to have. Very cool.

Income inequality in the United States is not far from where it was at the height of the robber baron age. The Christian Science Monitors’ assessment of what that might mean for the future sounds to this cynical soul like a catalog of the recent past.