Joe who?

If I make more than $250K per year, I am not Joe the Plumber.

I am Joe the Plumbing Executive.

Just saying.

Kristen and Mom show their respective ages

While traveling to On the Border for Friday night dinner with Todd, Kristen, and my mom, we were talking about the vice presidential debates, and what's been said today among family, friends, and frenemies.

The space of nearly 60 years between two of the female species became apparent.

Mom: My beauty operator said the same thing.

Kristen: Your what? Your BEAUTY OPERATOR??????

To bail or not to bail ...

If you want to read slightly lighter, more exciting stuff, go read my review of the Swell Season (Glen Hansard of the Frames/Marketa Irglova) concert at my other blog.

If you are worried about the state of our economy, this will just take a minute.

I've been receiving various plugs in my inbox for different ways to approach the financial crisis as a taxpayer, citizen, voter, little person. It's still unclear what the best solution is to me, but reading through these is at least educating me. I'm still not sure I'll understand it in time to have any real influence. Sigh.

Dave Ramsey's 3 Steps to Change the Nation's Future

John Mauldin's Who's afraid of a big, bad bailout? (reprinted with permission on Meg Tilly's blog)

These two opinions seem to have common goals through quite different solutions.

What about you? Have you come across anything that make sense to you?