Author: Steven D

This is a diary about numbers and dollars. Specifically the number of dollars I pay each month to avoid bankruptcy and also pay some of my family’s medical expenses. First number: $1,216 per month for health insurance via...

Last year it was the US that had its hottest summer on record. This year, it’s Australia’s turn to grab all the hot headlines: Records were set for the duration of extreme heat at both individual locations, and for...

John Frampton was the head of South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) until he resigned in March 2012. Shortly thereafter, the release of a study he championed regarding the effects of climate change on...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Man sends emails containing racial slurs and threatening violence to African American legislator as well as President Obama. Man is arrested. Man claims that despite said emails, he...

Dennis Rodman goes to North Korea on “peace mission” (courtesy of HBO) Rodman, three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, and a film crew from Vice media company are visiting the communist country to...