February 2012
3 posts
Obama losing financial backing of big S.F. donor →
The first comment really sums up what is wrong with this story:
Does anyone see what is really wrong with this picture? There is a front page news article about where this rich person isn’t throwing their money. Why is this news? Why does this person have such a huge platform just because they have money? Why are we giving this individual so much power? With the dramatic photos of her and...
“His interview would have been almost flawless if he had not overlooked one big...”
– Retail Guru Ron Johnson Dazzles In His First Media Controversy As JC Penny CEO
This is like Ray Lane doing a NYTimes photo shoot and neglecting to replace his Apple laptops with HP models.
“And, what’s true about Detroit is true about all of us. This country can’t be...”
– iowahawk: A Fistful of Rebates
January 2012
5 posts
“This traditional view is becoming less true, in part because of the large...”
– SOPA Activism Moves Republicans More Than Democrats | FDL News Desk
“Unfortunately, these bills, both in their substance and, significantly, the...”
– Brad Feld: Why SOPA and PIPA Must Be Stopped — Tech News and Analysis
“President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is considering moving the...”
– Obama’s DNC speech could move to Bank of America stadium | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper
pretty much sums it up… move to a stadium named after a bank and sell access to big donors.
“Inadvertently, though, the developers of Boycott SOPA have given us a...”
– Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians | ExtremeTech
December 2011
25 posts
TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore →
they might as well call it the Federal Government Full Employment Department… no job too small to develop a specialty for.
“As the difficulty of producing cellulosic biofuels cheaply becomes apparent, a...”
– To Survive, Some Biofuels Companies Give Up on Biofuels - Technology Review
this is what happens when government is involved… things rarely turn out as expected.
“But state leaders, it turns out, quietly beefed up employment estimates. First,...”
– California high-speed rail jobs estimate too good to be true - San Jose Mercury News
and true to form, agency officials explain it away as a “communication issue”.
“Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal...”
– Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
“In Washington, the White House said the US remained “committed to stability on...”
– ‘Great Successor’ takes power in N Korea - FT.com
We should be committed to ridding the world of a totalitarian regime that has caused starvation, despair and death for millions. Stability is over-rated.
“Increasingly, we have let our elected officials abridge our own economic...”
– Jeb Bush: Capitalism and the Right to Rise - WSJ.com
“That forced Balsillie, who is the sales-and-marketing half of this dynamic duo,...”
– Why RIM Needed To Fire Its Co-CEOs Months, If Not Years Ago | paidContent
“The gloating is easy to understand. After all, nominal wage rigidity is the...”
– “Wages Must Fall!”: What All Good Keynesians Should Say, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“She obviously wants readers to conclude that bad, mean, wicked Republicans are...”
– Economics Reporter from New York Times Has Accidental Encounter with Reality, Learns Nothing « International Liberty
“The Obama information collection effort is cast under the mischievous guise of...”
– Obama Campaign Collecting GOP Emails | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier
here’s an idea, have a little fun by submitting the email addresses of your Democrat friends to porn sites!
“All the sales and inventory data that have been reported since January 2007 are...”
– Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years - US Business News - CNBC
“Popular anger about universities’ costs is rising just as technology is shaking...”
– Schumpeter: University challenge | The Economist
“We’ve gone from a situation where we dream up a game, we spend three years...”
– How Valve experiments with the economics of video games - GeekWire
“Rich people going on about the crassness of materialism, or spouting ecological...”
– Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Why I love Walmart despite never shopping there
Frozen Planet scandal: Sir David Attenborough... →
Maybe they could use CGI and animatronics to make the bears more entertaining, hell let’s put a voice over track in place so that they can talk directly to the audience instead of having a narrator. What’s the harm? Right… as Sir David said, it’s more entertaining.
“As the enterprise continues to embrace community I think this is a critical...”
– Friday Morning Report » SAP Community Network – Fail?
“When I saw her she had just finished mixing sulfuric acid with starter fluid in...”
– Woman caught making meth inside S. Tulsa Walmart - FOX23 News
that one quote pretty much sums up the world of methamphetamine.
“Why can’t we apply for visas at this embassy?” asked Sohrab, a nanotechnology...”
– Iran is quick to shut U.S. ‘virtual embassy’ - Checkpoint Washington - The Washington Post
“Case in point: investors led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz have just...”
– Flash Sale Site Fab.com Lands $200 Million Valuation - WSJ.com
“In stark contrast, an index of five policies suggested by forty years of...”
– New Harvard Study Tears Apart Conventional Wisdom On Good Schools
“He said ‘If you want to kick me off, kick me off.’ He was just...”
– Alec Baldwin thrown off AA flight at LAX for ‘playing game’ on phone - NYPOST.com
Chevrolet Volt Battery Issues Growing, Safety... →
This is why the government owning a car company - or any other company that builds products or delivers services - is certain to result in headache and heartbreak. It is less about the certainty or impropriety and more about the QUESTIONS of impropriety that results from conflicts of interest. Either result delivers a body blow to consumer confidence in the company at the heart of the matter.
New Yorker Review Embargo Break... →
PR embargoes… mixed feelings.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/industry/... →
November 2011
22 posts
The problems with emissions trading →
And just when carbon trading schemes across the globe are failing, California is starting one up… we’re never too late to fail at something.
“The U.S. economy has bifurcated into a two-tiered regulatory structure....”
– Guest Post: The Future Of Jobs | ZeroHedge
“The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a...”
– Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13 Billion - Bloomberg
“It is such a breathtaking assemblage of hoary urban clichés, it’s a wonder that...”
– Bronx Cheer For J. Lo’s Phony Fiat Commercial | The Smoking Gun
The bigger problem is the fact that this commercial does absolutely nothing to inspire me about the Fiat automobile it is supposed to be promoting. Fiat’s advertising, in contrast to sister brand Chrysler, is downright...
Hypocrisy in Higher Ed...I'm shocked to discover. →
“Their zombies are sleeping in feces and urine, but the so-called organizers of...”
– Figures: OWS Organizers Occupying Luxury Hotels | Jammie Wearing Fools
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid,...”
– EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration - Telegraph
“The report is an unusually broad look by the inspector general, who usually...”
– Report Calls for Broad Restructuring of Energy Department - NYTimes.com
“The export miracle, that we have been cantankerously remonstrating against the...”
– Are Aliens Buying Louis Vuitton Handbags? - World Exports $338Bn More Than It Imports | ZeroHedge
“The report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office says the state faces a...”
– State fiscal nightmare: deep cuts on horizon
“I’m not a technical expert on this,” the chairman of the committee said, adding...”
– Chief Sponsor Wavers on Web Censorship Bill in Charged Hearing | Threat Level | Wired.com
maybe legislators should understand the technology they are attempting to regulate before actually undertaking efforts which would radically affect the way we use it? Just sayin.
“Richmond is asking Chevron to stop pursuing a multimillion-dollar tax refund...”
– Richmond asks Chevron to give up tax refund case - San Jose Mercury News
Words fail me.
“President Barack Obama annoyed the Chinese government, embarrassed the Japanese...”
– Lazy Americans | Hawaii | Obama | The Daily Caller
“Income inequality is acceptable. If you are a star baseball player, it is...”
– The Inequality Map - NYTimes.com
“But a study commissioned by City Journal using the National Establishment Time...”
– The Long Stall by Wendell Cox, City Journal Autumn 2011
“Why is the online retailer backtracking? Instead of plugging O.co into their...”
– Overstock.com Bails Out On Its Rebranding Campaign, At Least For Now
Like this is surprising… Add this to the list that Qwikster is on about dumb business strategies.