Proof that politicians are ineffective everywhere: The EU agrees to police itself better. This is after the Greek debacle.
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I have been laid off before. I didn’t go crying to my mamma afterwards. I accepted it as a fact of life, and moved on. But I am very annoyed by the constant whining of the car dealers who are losing their precious franchises. I looked at the list for Los Angeles, and it is [...]
They say reality is stranger than movies. Globalization has gone wrong, very wrong if a Bangladeshi man has to travel 6000 miles to sells tacos on the streets of Mexico City. Add to that the fact that this man is sure to be a Muslim-and therefore eats no pork. And he got swine flu? Or [...]
You are efilecabinet.com, one of many companies that are trying to get big and hit the big time so you can be bought out by Oracle or whichever sugar daddy happens to come along. Now here you are, in a recession. Or a depression. Or a world-wide pandemic that will turn us all into zombies. [...]
A few days ago the governor of Texas made some ham-headed statement about seceding from the USA. Most people asked him to not let the door hit him in the posterior on the way out. Most of the world wants to come to America, STILL, and he wants to leave. Who does he think will [...]
I am on a redeye from LAX to NYC, desperate to score a window seat so I can try and get some sleep. I go to the online app to see what seats are available. It’s nice that they have a seat map, and they helpfully mark out my seat for me. And then I [...]
This is the story of a guy who had an accident in which he lopped off his thumb. When he found out what they would charge to reattach it, he bid it a fond farewell. From the LATimes: “Koemer loves working with his hands..He knew he would miss his thumb….But there were too many other [...]
I saw this interview, more like a three year old’s tantrum, posted on the NYTimes. The former head of the SEC,(also known as the world’s most toothless agency), Arthur Levitt, says everything was A-OK under his watch. If you had a cancer growing inside of you for two eight years, and your oncologist didn’t [...]
Geithner is Obama’s choice for Treasury secretary. There are several reasons to reject his appointment, although I think our current rubber stamp, do-nothing Senate will wave him through with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist. He is in favor of the bailout, not just the current bailout, but the last five bailouts. There [...]
More photos here courtesy of the Guardian This photo is amazing. First, I would like to know why Nissan would build a test track in the U.K. Are UK drivers really that different from Japanese drivers? Nissan and its predecessor, Datsun, did fine for 20 years before building a test track in the UK. [...]
