Are the poor and working-class human shields for the FIRE community? That’s a seemingly idiotic question to be asking, but hear me out. I pay quarterly estimated taxes on our pension and dividend income. I also pay sales and property taxes. Just how much I’ll be paying for these various taxes in 2020 is as …
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Crazy week. Mrs. Groovy signed us up for fostering rescue animals and we received our first client on Tuesday. I don’t know exactly what mix Mitzi is, but she’s a pip. She’s currently in heat and discharging an unnerving amount of blood. She also has a skin issue that requires bathing and medication. And did …
Hallelujah! The rebar scaffolding for the bison is finally complete. Now it’s just a matter of covering the beast with scrap metal. When I told my welding instructor about my plans to weld a life-sized bison out of scrap metal, he predicted it would take me at least a year. And I thought he was …
Zebras in Africa have a problem. They have to drink water to survive, but they haven’t mastered the science of plumbing. And because of this dearth of technical know-how, they can’t transport potable water to a safe location, and they have to subject themselves to the terror of crocodiles. Zero Zebra Deaths Aren’t an Option …
Check out the below video. It gives us a glimpse of the world’s tallest residential skyscraper and the three-story penthouse that sits atop it. Great wealth has never bothered me—providing, of course, it was earned producing an ethical product or service and didn’t rely on cheating (i.e., fraud, extortion, crony capitalism, etc.). Now here’s the …