Another good song from Death Cab for Cutie’s latest album Narrow Stairs.
You look so defeated lying there in your new twin size bed
With a single pillow underneath your single head
I guess you decided that that old queen was more space than you would need
Now it’s in the alley behind your apartment with a sign that says it’s free
A stupendous interactive infographic in the New York Times titled Is It Better to Buy or Rent? allows you to twiddle the dials of interest rates, appreciation, rent increases, taxes, and etc. to see when it makes more economic sense to buy rather than rent.
James Duncan Davidson, the photographer, is also a good writer. His latest, Surprised about Oil Prices? Really?, has some good (scary, too) points:
$4/gallon gas is definitely here in a big way and that’s
going to have major impact on America’s
suburban lifestyle. And, as a kicker, the news
people are running around talking about experts
and ordinary citizens being surprised. Surprised?
How the hell can you be surprised about this? Really?
And more:
I find it galling in the extreme that the head of state
has to effectively go beg for more oil to run the
machine that we’ve built over the last century.
It’s appalling, in fact. And, almost every member of
the United States government shares responsibility
for the mess that we’re currently facing. It’s not just
the reaction of Bush II that is wrong—it’s the result
of 35 years of U.S. policy that is wrong.
