Kansas Turns Back On Science, Pennsylvania Stands Firm
Yesterday the Kansas school board proudly declared itself the most backward group of asses, blockheads, boobs, boobies, dimwits, dorks, dunces, dunderheads, fools, halfwits, ignoramuses, imbeciles, jackasses, jerks, kooks, meatheads, mental defectives, morons, nincompoops, ninnys, nitwits, pinheads, simpletons, tomfools, twits, and yo-yo’s.
I normally don’t resort to ad homonym attacks, however, since our friends in Kansas have [...]
Man-Dates and other political mud
By Ben Munson
So Senator Jon Corzine is now Governor Jon Corzine. Looks like Doug Forrester’s “At least I’m not gay or divorced” tactic didn’t work. I think the Daily Kos crowd will proclaim this and the Democratic win in Virginia as further knives in the back of the Bush administration, but I’m not so sure. [...]
Techno Zen: Be Happy With What You’ve Got
I’d love to buy a new laptop. I’ve got a decent job and some savings, and I am constantly writing, building websites, and playing with tech tools. It just makes sense for me to have a laptop. The only problem is that I’m cheap, and even more importantly, I hate to upgrade or [...]
Hypomania – Blessing, or Diagnosis
This essay at changethis is a startling picture of many of our lives: months of normalcy, even lethargy peppered by periods of intense creativity, sleepless nights, and ADHD-like concentration issues.
Hypomania (a less intense form of the nightmarish mania that manic-depressives experience) affects a large number of people in the US, and apparently appears in [...]
Will Business Humor Rebound With the Economy?
“This week on ‘The Apprentice,’ Martha Stewart teaches the kids how to
underreport their taxes…”
A recent throwaway joke on the late-night talkshow circuit, it’s also an
encouraging sign that office humor is back after a virtual five-year
absence.
There hasn’t been much to laugh about in the business world since the
technology bubble burst in March 2000.
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As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
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- JoshFriedlander: Lucy Kellaway's takedown of Ray Dalio's "philosophy": http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be8ce2ce-650d-11df-b648-00144feab49a.html
- JoshFriedlander: RT @ARhedge: AR (partial view): Credit Suisse combines alternatives division, names Ravi Singh chief. http://cot.ag/amiMzH #hedgefunds $CS
- JoshFriedlander: http://onion.com/bBpcN3 via @TheOnion - A very relevant critique of lazy uncritical tech trend journalistic coverage. Also, hilarious.
- JoshFriedlander: Friend needs to sublet his apt: June 1 - Aug 15 (150th btw Bdway and Amsterdam) while he interns at TARP oversight committee. Big 1br. Lots…
- JoshFriedlander: RT @ARhedge: AR (partial view): John Paulson promises to shield investors from any legal fees related to ABACUS 2007-AC1. http://cot.ag/ ...