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USDA’s Economic Research Service’s (ERS) today released its annual report on Household Food Security in the U.S., which revealed that in 2008, 17 million households, or 14.6 percent, were food insecure and families had difficulty putting enough food on the table at times during the year. This is an increase from 13 million households, or 11.1 percent, in 2007. The 2008 figures represent the highest level observed since nationally representative food security surveys were initiated in 1995.

Obesity and hunger are rising in the US at the same time?

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In the first nine months of this year, the firm [Goldman Sachs] set aside about $17 billion for bonuses and other compensation.

Let’s see, 9 months is about 275 days. 17 billion / 17 million is 1000. $1000 / 275 is $3.64. You can give a kid a good meal for $3.64, particularly if you’re cooking. So basically, GS is paying in bonuses pretty much the exact amount it would cost to every give ever food-insecure kid in America a meal every day during the same period.

Just sayin’.

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If the U.S. government bought a lottery ticket tomorrow and won, and then Obama said every cent of that money would be used to buy food for poor families, I am absolutely certain that the teabaggers would call him a socialist and denounce the move as “socialized shopping” or some equally asinine phrase. Now here’s the funny part:

We could get…ten, twenty lottery tickets worth of money out of canceling bullshit military research projects *alone*. And the reason we don’t is because everyone in D.C. is afraid of the people who would denounce socialized shopping if they got the chance. Americans live in a country where siphoning money from nonsense research about how to build a gun that best compensates for your tiny penis towards feeding children who don’t get enough to eat is a political liability. I’m laughing and I don’t know why because it’s not funny.

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Officer Ricardo Montilla, who had been a financial adviser for Washington Mutual in Brooklyn, said he had hit a wall in his civilian pay, and joined the force in December.

“I was making a lot of money, and then not making money,” he said. “As the economy got worse, the investments dried up and I needed more stability. The police offer a pension that’s unheard of.”

In the current first-year class of rookies, Officer Montilla, 31, is one of several refugees from the financial industry, an uncommon breeding ground for police officers. He and two academy classmates who had also worked in finance said they had been willing to give up larger salaries partly because they were afraid they would not be able to support their families if the economy continued to slow.

A year and a half ago, Henry Chung was an assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch, monitoring billions of dollars the firm traded on a daily basis.

The NYPD is taking just anyone these days, aren’t they.

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Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie weighed in at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference today on the battle between different smartphone platforms including Windows Mobile. It’s not the applications available on the various platforms that will be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what many companies and writers seem to focus on.“All the apps that count will be ported to every one of them,” he said. It’s a completely different situation from the PC market, where software’s built to run on a Windows or a Mac, he said. Mobile apps require very little development, so it’s much easier to bring them onto every platform

As an iPhone developer, of course I’ve looked at Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile development. Ray Ozzie is talking utter and complete bullshit.