Category: News
01/04/12
You take the workers from jobs, you gonna have murders and mobs
MSNBC reports "Jobless rate up, but crime down: What gives?"
Americans, take solace: While your chances of landing a job these days might not be great, you’re also less likely to be murdered, or robbed or to have your car stolen.
The rate of maj… more »
12/23/11
They don't really care about us
The Associated Press reports on Ron Paul in "Paul's anti-establishment campaign draws crowds":
Confronted by a tearful breast cancer survivor on how he would ensure health insurance companies did not discriminate on the basis of a pre-existing cond… more »
Being Mr. Scrooge on Christmas
"Scrooge: The First 1 Percenter."
They've sunk far enough to laud Ebenezer Scrooge. more »
Bass! How low can you go?
"Obama Called ‘Skinny, Ghetto Crackhead’ On Fox News."
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12/22/11
About those rebellions, and riots, and mishaps...
"A Christmas Message From America's Rich." more »
12/19/11
Up against the wall, don't gimme no lip son
From the New York Times "Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?"
For young people in my neighborhood, getting stopped and frisked is a rite of passage. We expect the police to jump us at any moment. We know the rules: don’t run and don’t try to explain, bec… more »
12/15/11
Who's that peekin' in my window, now?
"As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit":
Lenddo, a Hong Kong-based microlending startup incubated in New York’s FinTech Innovation Lab, calls itself "the first credit scoring service that u… more »
12/09/11
Quote of the Day
"War Criminals in training!":
It is both little-known and little-enforced, but Article 12, Section 24-B, Paragraph 7 of the Geneva Convention expressly forbids squatting up and down on the heads of fallen enemy soldiers in order to pantomime teabag… more »
12/06/11
Link of the Day
"If the Future of CNN is Donald Trump, the Future of CNN is a Funeral."
Incredibly spot-on for a Forbes article. That the American media is frighteningly unapologetic about wasting our time time and time again over people like Trump, who never deserv… more »
11/30/11
Phone Tap
"Your Android Phone Is Secretly Recording Everything You Do."
I'm going to follow this closely. more »
11/28/11
Outrage of the Day
From "Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion" via Bloomberg:
The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missi… more »
11/08/11
Black wire touched red, the car was mine
Every year, I make sure to read the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's list of most stolen vehicles. This year, I was unfortunate enough to read the release of the list on Forbes. I was encouraged by the wise avoidance of hyping the threat… more »
10/27/11
Quote of the Day
Well, well, well, one of my pet peeves gets aired in the Wall Street Journal:
Everybody's heard the complaints about recruiting lately.
But I believe that the real culprits are the employers themselves.
With an abundance of workers to choose fr… more »
10/26/11
When it comes to the cash, we ain't equal
Michael Tanner of National Review Online asserts that we're becoming "Equally Poorer":
According to data just released by the Tax Foundation, the top 1 percent of the wealthiest Americans earned 16.9 percent of all adjusted gross income in the Unit… more »
10/25/11
Hey, yo kids! Remember when I used to be dope?
"Google dumps + from Boolean search tool."
What I'm still salty about is the undocumented use of synonyms that ruin searches. Google now often replaces "Fedora" with the names of other Linux distributions like "Ubuntu" instead, which isn't a helpful… more »
10/24/11
History is real history
The new movie Anonymous, "dramatizes a fringe theory, unsupported by any historical evidence, according to which the works of Shakespeare were written by an Elizabethan aristocrat, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford." Stephen Marche, a professor of Sha… more »
10/05/11
Had my baby boy, couldn't get a circumcision
"Circumcision foes should cut it out, experts say."
I've listened to the anti-circumcision crowd and I think their best point is that shit must hurt. That kid in that video clip is clearly being hurt, and hurt badly. Still, I must admit that when a g… more »
09/21/11
Yahoo!
Not that I use Yahoo! for anything these days, but reading this made sure I never will again:
Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think… more »
09/20/11
It may get worse but we'll get through it
"FBI: U.S. violent crime down by 6% last year"
Violent crime dropped 6% in 2010, marking the fourth straight year-to-year decline, while property crime was down for the eighth straight year, falling 2.7%, the FBI reported Monday.
Robbery fel… more »
09/19/11
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