He was a really great guy and I miss his witty, insightful commentary. I know that a few users had a problem with him but it was only the really crazy left-wacko liberals that were ever offended by any of his posts.

Besides, I really miss seeing that attractive picture of Rod Blagojavich everywhere.

I can't believe this has been going on my whole life and I'm only now waking up.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/09/19/ED7B19P06H.DTL

Let's be honest: work is boring. I need some flash games to get me through the conference calls.

I know the concept of a game section on The Sift has come up before but until that happens: what are YOUR favorite games?

I just want some opinions about this:

I've noticed a lot of comments with the election coming up in regard to "taxing the top 10%" and "the rich" getting "picked on" for one reason or another. Many people seem to think that wherever you are in life, in regard to your financial standing, that that's exactly where you put yourself. And that we should all pay the same amount to our government.

I see the reasoning behind that thinking. Don't get me wrong. To use a simple example: I don't want to work all day and think that the person next to me who is screwing off all the time is going to get the same thing I do on payday.

Still though, I have a problem with this opinion that everything we obtain in our lives is somehow based on our own skill and nothing else. A lot of the good and bad things in my life have seemingly come about by random chance. Call it the will of god if you want.

My questions (and I'll try to put them as simply as possible) are these:

Did the guy who made $10 million last year really do it because he worked one-thousand times times harder than the guy who only made $10 thousand? Is he really one-thousand times smarter? Is that even possible?

By that rationale, it stands to reason that if we were all born with the same IQ and the same physical capabilities, we would all make the exact same amount of money.

Look, I don't want to live in a Marxist society. But I do work my ass off and I'm smarter than the average bear. I think the people that made something of themselves by using the system in place should be giving something back. And I don't they're giving enough. At least, not here in America.

Do you? Any thoughts?