Washington, May 3 : A 2-year-old girl is making headlines as the youngest US member of Mensa – the prestigious high-IQ institution in the US. Emmelyn Roettger, from the Washington, DC, area became a member in March, a month before her third birthday, msnbc. com reported. As a baby, Roettger[...]
Archive for May 10th, 2012
Breaking News: JP Morgan poofs $2,000,000,000
First we passed laws breaking down the barriers between banking and speculation. Now, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, announces that it lost $2 billion in the past six weeks in a trading portfolio designed to hedge against risks the company takes with its own money. Doe[...]
Jews Join the Right
Sheldon Adelson and the End of American Anti-Semitism How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame? Eric Alterman, The Nation[...]
May 10th, 2012 - 12:07 pm § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS: Denial
As a preppie senior, the Mitt abused a supposedly gay classmate. Romney led a gang that was incensed by a supposedly gay classmate’s hairdo: A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school[...]
May 10th, 2012 - 9:50 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge; Who is it?
This leaked image has become a soft porn star on the internet. Whose body is turning the teen girls on? A. Jeremy Lin B. Vladimir Putin C. Barack Obama D. Levi Johnston E. Tagg Romney [...]
Is the “Yale” name for Sale?
What’s in a Name? For Yale in Singapore, a Whole Lot Courtesy of Yale U. The Chronicle of Higher Education reportsa fight between memebers of the Yale faculty and the administration over who owns the “Yale ” brand name. After the World Economic Forum in Davos, in January 2009, Ri[...]