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April 14, 2008
So have you heard of this thing called Stuff White People Like? Yeah? Well, stick it in your ear; we’re sick of hearing how great you think it is. For a full accurate take on how we (meaning just me) feel(s) about it, see The New Republic article by Adam Sternbergh: “But if this blog […]
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March 26, 2008
Hey, did you hear that Wal-Mart is trying to murder some brain-damaged woman?
Seriously though, Wal-Mart won a suit to recoup health care payments it made to a woman who was hit by a truck. As she settled with the truck’s insurance company, Wal-Mart requested, and was rightly awarded the payments it had made to her. […]
March 25, 2008
JetBlue has revealed that they will be adding extra-legroom rows to their flights to accommodate taller passengers. The seats will add four inches (from 34” to 38”) and be available for approximately $40RT.
If you’re a taller fellow like myself then this is great news. For flights over a couple hours I would gladly pay a […]
March 23, 2008
Ok, so they’re telling me that the economy is, like, the worst economy ever in the history of time and space and we’re all gonna’ die from like, some blood-borne sub-prime thing and I know it’s all true because the AP is reporting that we’re all moving back in with our parents. Yeah, even the […]
March 21, 2008
Saturday, April 22, is World Water Day, “an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of those without access to safe drinking water.” This year’s theme, Sanitation!
NPR of course has been all up in the hizzat this week about it with Science Froday host Ira Flatow quite literally, maybe, peeing […]
March 20, 2008
Recently, Portfolio magazine looked at the potential spending for this year’s presidential election and settled on a probable figure of $1 billion. That, Portfolio rightly noted, is a serious bargain.
Porfolio’s reasoning is that, comparatively, $1 billion buys a lot more than, say, Microsoft’s $500 million to promote Vista. One gets you written into the history […]
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March 6, 2008
Here’s a unique marketing idea that would never get considered because politics is where unique ideas go to die:
In February Barack Obama raised $55 million. Hillary raised $35 million. It’s a good bet that a great deal of that money will be spent in Pennsylvania on TV ads and boxes of glazed donuts for old […]
