Weekly Roundup: Heroes Is An Amazing Show

My fiancée bought me Heroes: Season One on DVD a few weeks ago and it’s amazing. We’ve been watching an episode or four every few nights and basically need to pull ourselves away from watching all of them at once. We weren’t able to watch it when they were first on television because of my Monday night classes and we started falling so far behind that the prospect of watching multiple episodes via the internet wasn’t particularly appealing. Now that we are caught up and missed only episode 1 of the second season, it’s about time to keep current again!

Now, some of the characters on the show have some typical comic book character abilities: telepathy, clairvoyance, persuasion, regeneration, invisibility, flight, time travel, walking through walls, cutting people’s heads off and stealing their powers. Now, some of the secondary characters have some crazier powers like being able to locate other “heroes” and ultra-sensitive hearing, so that got me thinking… what power would I really want? (answer below) What power would you want?

• FMF quotes a statistic from Kiplingers that more than 60% of parents expect to pay for their kids education. I think 100% of parents should but that’s just me.
• Flexo summarizes how the recent education bill has helped new students.
• MBH shares his thoughts on Maxed Out.
• With HSBC dropping their rates, Nickel has moved his funds over to a new Bank of America account.
• JD talks about how you can use Quicken to analyze and fix your bad spending habits.
• NCN illustrates the debt snowball tactic.
• JLP talks about the changing face of healthcare, which is about the GM-UAW.
• Jeremy also takes a look at the GM-UAW contract.
• Would you rather pay more taxes (that go for health care) or pay more for health care?
• Lazy Man would like politicians to adjust the Roth IRA contribution limits based on cost of living in different areas.
• Golbguru writes about the tools of financial phishers, it’s worth reviewing.
• Sun has invented a new country, Chindia, and he’d like to invest there.
• Of course, a roundup wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t include something about subprime. SVB writes about the causes and consequences of the subprime implosion nuclear death whirlwind.
• Consumerist has a Devil’s Advocate post listing 5 ways credit cards can make you happy.
• Three’s a crowd but My Retirement Blog takes a look at the Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association, a huge component of the GM-UAW contract agreement.
• ANd here are three things you need to be careful about with short sales.

I’d probably want the ability to fly. Or walk through walls. You?