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On this month's credit card statement, there was a large notice that read, "Important Information About Your Minimum Payment."

"Your account is currently enrolled in a program that has temporarily reduced your required monthly minimum payment," it said.

Really? I didn't recall enrolling my account in any program.

It continued, "This benefit (emphasis added) was implemented on your account to provide you with some extra breathing room in your budget."

The new minimum payment was the previous month's interest, plus $1.

The true depth of this benefit isn't really obvious. Fortunately, the credit card law Congress passed last year now requires the companies to do the math for customers:

That's no typo.

If I make only the minimum payment requested by the company, it will take me One Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventeen YEARS to pay off the bill.

Or, they helpfully note, I can send in the original minimum payment each month for just three years, and save myself $282,022.

Wow. Imagine what I can do with all that savings. Not to mention all the postage stamps.

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Former President Bush announced today he is writing a book on how he made decisions while in the White House. The book will be divided into the two chapters, "Heads" and "Tails."
-Jay Leno

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The painter starts work today at the South Park place, and I was concerned about being stuck here without a broadband connection in the event I had to log on to the mothership back in Chicago for any customer emergencies.

I fired up the laptop about five minutes ago and was getting ready to try to tether it to my cell phone in order to connect to the net when 14(!) available wireless networks popped up. One had five bar signal strength, with wide-open security. Must be the next door neighbor, who splurged on Comcast's high-end broadband service... 15 megs down, 3 megs up. Compared to the tin can and string service we have with Atlantic Broadband, this is nirvana. It's about five times faster on download and 15 times faster on upload.

Well, at least I don't have to worry about being out of touch if I get stuck over here during the renovations.

And if you're questioning the legality/ethics of the connection, my neighbor is actually running off the "temporary" router and wireless link I supplied when he was having equipment problems. Two years ago.

Karma's a wonderful thing.

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Comedienne Elayne Boosler asked on her Facebook page, "Is there yet born a producer bold enough, brave enough, radical enough, to produce an awards show without steps onstage? So women in model airplane stand shoes aren't shaking by the time they speak? Do they think we care how people in show business look going down steps? 'Hey! Mollie Ringwald nailed 'em! I give it a 10!'"

I think it's the awards show equivalent of NASCAR. You know most of what you're watching will be mind-numbingly boring, but you're secretly hoping there'll be a spectacular crash.

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"...the flawed portrayal of EOD and the other (to the civilian eye) seemingly minor mistakes, such as soldiers in the wrong uniforms, using poor tactics, and ranks that don't accurately correspond to the leadership being shown. This equates to something larger than just a series of careless errors: it is disrespectful."

-Paul Rieckhoff, executive director and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, in Newsweek commentary on the film The Hurt Locker.

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