Cui bono? Not the US
How do companies like Bain make their money? Listen my children and you shall hear (and see):
Archive of entries posted on May 2012
Talk of changing habits!
R.I.P., Eugene Polley. Eugene Polley, inventor of the wireless television remote control, has died at the age of 96, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Polley died of natural causes on Sunday in a Chicago-area hospital. I wonder how Mr. Polley felt about the broadening of American and international backsides which resulted from his invention. It’s …
What’s the plan here?
On the way back from getting a routine blood test today I stopped at a local Chevy dealer to look at the Chevy Sonic, which is very similar to the Honda Fit I’ve been studying (as are the Nissan Versa, the Toyota Yaris, and the Mazda2). I had no luck seeing the Sonic, though, because …
Coathangers si, women no
Sometimes you see a righteous rant and all you can do is nod your head in agreement. PZ Myers has offered one up today. It’s in response to that clown from Mississippi who laughed at the thought of poor women needing abortions having to use coathangers since he and his friends in the state’s legislature …
Racing’s Triple Crown comes closer
I’ll be damned. I’ll Have Another won the Preakness Stakes. Two-thirds of the Triple Crown won, on to the Belmont in three weeks. It’s been a long long time since there’s been a Triple Crown winner. Affirmed was the last one, in 1978, and he did it in grand style, defeating Alydar in all three …
I’m glad THAT’S over
Dear media, Now that Facebook’s IPO is done, can we move on to more important things? I mean, very few of your viewers actually bought shares today, so most of them probably have very little financial interest in it. A bunch of investment banks, pension funds, mutual funds and a small group of privileged rich …
Oh really?
If this is supposed to show he’s consistent, it fails. Romney, today, trying to denounce the announced attempt to smear Obama with Jeremiah Wright: a reporter noted that in February, Romney brought up Wright unprompted in an interview with the conservative media personality Sean Hannity – a clip that Democrats unearthed early in the day. …
My facts are better than your facts
Jonathan Chait points out the inconsistencies between Romney’s economics speech yesterday in Des Moines and the facts recognized by most of the rest of the sentient world. In the real world, the following things are true: The budget deficit was projected to top $1 trillion even before President Obama took office, and that was when …
Aging, I has it
How can a slip of paper three inches by five inches get lost on my desktop in the space of five minutes? Dammit.
Sticker shock
If you cook dinner every night and you do it for about ten years, you’re liable to be astonished at how much it costs to eat out these days. The other night I went down to Teddy’s Bigger Burgers, something we’ve talked about doing for months since it moved into a place right down our …