Recent Comments

1. almost 12 years ago on Over the Hedge

   Perhaps if Gore had been less self-serving and said he supported the expansion of the internet through his sponsoring of the 1991 High Performance Computing and Communication Act this wouldn’t be an issue. The internet began in approximately 1969, as Gore was finishing up his degree in government and six years before he was first elected to the House.

2. over 12 years ago on Frazz

   It has to be more than $190M. $15M in 1913 is worth $343M in today’s dollars (see http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl). Add in an extra 90 years of inflation and it is probably at least half a billion.