Author: Thomas DelMundo

The good news is that my family in Manila were unaffected at the edge of the typhoon cyclone (the typical street flooding Manila during a typhoon). My mother’s side of the family on Panay were on the path of the eye but they too are safe with minor damage to the farm. But many thousands…

  Thinking about the mayoral election here in NYC and DeBlasio’s promise to raise taxes on the rich. He’s right on track to reduce income inequality in NYC. Because the rich are sure to move or simply claim their beach house in the Hamptons as their primary residence. With far less rich residents in the…

http://www.hulu.com/watch/548262 Senator Schumer quotes Healthcare.gov got over 19 million visits. Unfortunately it was the same half-million individuals trying to log in 38 times before giving up. Granted they hired a Canadian firm to build the website so as soon as–wait what?! They OUTSOURCED the work to a foreign company? WTF? Without competitive bids! And you thought…

    A fun graphic from Doghousediaries.com and I can attest by my family’s heavy use of Facebook that the Philippines probably does lead the world Social Media use… if not that than hotel workers and domestics.

Perhaps Americans are dissatisfied because they have unreasonably outsized expectations. Our grandparents in the 1950’s were living the American dream in a 1000sq foot house. Today their grand kids expect a +3,000sq foot house or else they whine about how they’re NOT middle-class. If people in 2005 had simply bought modest 1000sq foot homes on…

A year after I got out of college. I was “forced” to listen to the unabridged audio-book, as the passengers in a car on a 14hr drive from Charleston, S.C. to New York City. My knee jerk reaction was negative, especially to the sappy dialogue and ham-handed caricatures that sufficed for the book’s antagonists. Having…

The WW2 memorial does not have fences or require admission or have a ranger on duty to police it. It’s a big fountain in the middle of a park (the Capitol Mall). But some douche at the Park Service or the Administration ordered that a fence be put around it 24hrs before the Govt. shutdown…