Tech support from the unlikelyest place (here)

I read this tremendously useful tip on Stephen Green's great blog, VodkaPundit.

He enthusiastically recommends this browser add-on: Do Not Track Plus. I second that endorsement.

I'm not quite as concerned about the on-line privacy issues as he is, however all-in-all I'd rather not have my hard-drive compromised nor my on-line browsing activity tracked. And, that is the signature functionality of this add-on. Importantly though, it does have the added benefit of speeding up page-loads as it (I believe) blocks the tracking scrips from running concurrently. That's a nice deal indeed. Please check it out as they have multiple versions for various browsers.

Just as was Claude Rains,

I am shocked, shocked to find rate manipulation going on in this establishment. Frankly, I'm surprised that this hasn't been investigated earlier. If you were starting from scratch, this is probably one of the first kinds of financial fraud you'd dream up. The only surprise is that apparently a few people were dumb enough to commit fraud with an auditable document trail. Well, I guess that's not much of a surprise either.

More on the man whose name should adorn TCF staduim

I'm looking forward to what I'm sure is a good mix of history and idealism about an alum:

From the Hoover institute: "Noel Vietmeyer’s Our Daily Bread, a gripping, touching, meticulously researched biography of Norman Borlaug, the plant breeder known as the Father of the Green Revolution, accurately portrays the kind of nobility, idealism and courage epitomized by Jimmy Stewart in the title role of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and Gary Cooper in “High Noon.”"