The following piece is by Andrew Vietze and is an excerpt from Get Satisfied: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough, one of MSN Money's top personal finance books that can change your life. It's from Simple Living America, the first national, nonprofit membership organization for the general public centered on simplicity. Posting your own story or joining the organization (and even holding a house party to spread the word) is one path to the satisfaction of enough. Was thttp://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2008/04/fo...

Jim Geraghty gives some excerpts from McCain's economic address to be excited about: For Republicans, it starts with reclaiming our good name as the party of spending restraint. Somewhere along the way, too many Republicans in Congress became indistinguishable from the big-spending Democrats they used to oppose. The only power of government that could stop them was the power of veto, and it was rarely used. ... Of course, they would like you to think that only the very wealthy will pay more ihttp://www.gazizza.net/2008/04/reasons_to_...

Warning: Video contains profane language. Jason Beghe isn't exactly a household name, but he is one of those actors who make you think "Oh, that guy" when you tick off his resume: Demi Moore's beau in G.I. Jane, a bunch TV shows like Criminal Minds, CSI and Numb3rs, and even Davd Duchovny's best man in his wedding to Tea Leoni, But now you can add ex-Scientologist to that mix. Fox News' Roger Friedman says Beghe, who has been taking church courses since 1994, has made a YouTube video abouthttp://blogs.tampabay.com/juice/2008/04/ja...

I promise not to derail the conversation to non-sports-related topics too often, but â€" if you’ll indulge me â€" I want to spend a minute talking about what I’m up to outside of running The Loss Column. Specifically, I want to let everyone know about Slant Six Creative, a communications studio I recently founded. It got some attention yesterday at the Baltimore Sun on account of the “I’ve Stepped Out For a Smoke†cards I designed and made. Other recent projects include a guest post for the highhttp://www.thelosscolumn.com/2008/meanwhil...