Thursday: Political Brand Loyalty

Busy day today.  This will be short. Yesterday, I posted a couple of videos featuring Australian Jane Caro, a former advertising creative type, now writer.  Go check out those two videos.  Caro’s take on feminism and religion is really funny. I found another video featuring Jane where the topic was political spin.  Jane’s background in [...]

A series of unfortunate misallocations

Jon Corzine’s Mulctuary Money Management MF Global is still in the news.  Is it possible that the only banker we are likely to see doing a perp walk is the former Democratic governor of New Jersey?  There’s some kind of weird karma here.  Anyways, Mr. Poe, er, sorry, Jon Corzine’s firm has something like $28 [...]

Wednesday: Feminism first

I’ve got some stuff to do today and will be checking in periodically.  In the meantime, here are two videoclips by Australian writer, Jane Caro.  I’ve been checking out a lot of freethinker videos lately, particularly because the speakers represent the other end of the religio-socio spectrum.  Most people fall into the middle of a [...]

Tuesday: More on Pharmageddon

Mac had an attack.  All back to normal now. Yesterday, Derek Lowe of In the Pipeline, linked to an article in Science titled “A Pharma Industry in Crisis”.  This kind of article is rare because the writer actually interviewed the people who are in the midst of the chaos, the researchers.  Typical finance rags writing [...]

Monday: Be Good for Goodness Sake

Ok, bear with me, these things are related.  I think. I was idly surfing the web, as I sometimes do.  You do that too, don’t you?  And I ran across a podcast on the crazy super secret handshakes and decoder rings of the Church of Latter Day Saints aka the Mormons and that lead me [...]

The funniest youtube ad I’ve been forced to watch

I’m not getting paid for promoting anything and normally I wouldn’t post product related material.  But this one was so funny.  More like this please… Have you seen any good ones lately?

OWS: What’s it all about??

I had a comment in a previous thread from Kay who doesn’t like the OWS crowd because she thinks they’ve taken away from their message by trying to stay in their tents.  She thinks they’ve put too much emphasis on maintaining an encampment and that this has taken the power out of their message. This [...]

The AP English course watches Henry V

The Stanford Online High School AP English Language course is watching Henry V on Netflix at their houses and is participating online through the classroom interface Centra.  Pretty cool. If you want to follow along, we are about 15 minutes in.  We’re watching the Kenneth Branaugh 1989 version. Don’t hold your manhood cheap.  Dig into [...]

Friday: Your Hell doesn’t scare me

Jon Stewart declared war on Christmas the other night.  Bill O’Reilly said he was going to hell.  Jon’s not scared. Check it out here. Come to think of it, none of the right wing haka should scare you.  Or left wing haka, for that matter.  We’re not children.  They can try to use fear to [...]

Thursday: Elections have consequences (with a long digression on Jon Huntsman and research in China)

Vladimir Putin is accusing Hillary Clinton of inciting insurrection.  ”Occupy Russia” seems to have taken to the street in protest over fraud in the last election.  Here’s what we’re talking about in case you haven’t already seen it: Isn’t that amazing?  Looks like punch card optical scan paper ballots are the way to go. Throngs [...]