• Intrade Prediction Markets - Will Congress allow the Bush tax cuts to sunset?
  1 in 6 chance, so not really. I think lots of the CBO projections during the healthcare debate assumed tax rates would revert to their pre-2003 levels.
• What Happened to Your Parachute?
  story behind popular job hunting book "And, over the past three decades, Bolles's preferred method has remained remarkably consistent: Sending out résumés doesn't work. Neither does answering ads. Employment agencies? No way. What does work is figuring out what you like to do and what you do well -- and then finding a place that needs people like you. Contact organizations that you're interested in, even if they don't have known vacancies. (Bolles actually coined the now commonplace term "informational interview.") Pester friends and family members for leads. Once you get in the door of the employer of your dreams, show how you can solve its problems."
• Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - TIME
  But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables — socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on — the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who were not current drinkers, regardless of whether they used to be alcoholics, second highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.
• This Chaplain Is Protected By God—and by an Atheist--at War - WSJ.com
  an army chaplain in afghanistan has an atheist assistant, good article. "The chaplain was struck both by RP2 Chute's command of the Book of Revelation, and his refusal to take it seriously. "He's familiar with the Christian doctrine, but he chooses not to believe it," says the chaplain, a slender-faced, soft-spoken man with a fringe of gray in his black hair. "That's what I find puzzling."

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