AUTHOR: Kevin DATE: 11/11/2007 ----- BODY:
Nobel Laureate and economist Joseph Stiglitz writes about the economic consequences of this administration from a historical perspective. Oil and gold are at their highest prices in decades and the dollar is plummeting. Over two million adjustable rate mortgages are due to reset this year and next. What this country badly needs is a reining in of personal and governmental spending, even though it will almost certainly result in a recession. I hope our next president has the intelligence and the will to do what is needed.

"SimCity is entertainment that's unintentionally educational" says Steve Seabolt of EA Games. EA donated the original SimCity game to the One Laptop Per Child initiative which aims to provide inexpensive laptops to children worldwide. I'm glad more people are getting it - having fun is the best way for kids to learn. I learned basic boolean logic and circuit design when I was nine or ten playing Rocky's Boots on an Apple ][. The author of that software has links to emulators and disk images on his site. I'm downloading Rocky and the sequel, Robot Odyssey for Alex and Ana to play.

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