Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write Jean-Louis Gassée writes an amazing essay about Jeff Bezos in the website Medium as part of his series of posts called Mondaynotes. Gassée played a major role in the history of Apple and what might have been a very different history of the entire tech world. In 1985, as [...]
Archive for September, 2019
September 18th, 2019 - 1:43 am § in The Ave Scene
The Man Who Could Have Been Apple, Jean-Louis Gassée, Writes About Jeff Bezos
September 17th, 2019 - 1:16 pm § in Politics
GOP lawmaker claims rape is consensual
CNN reports that Barry Hovis, a Republican and ex-cop elected to Missouri’s legislature in 2018, claimed in support of an unconstitutional anti-abortion bill that most rapes are “date rapes or consensual rapes.” Read story here. I think a lot of women would be surprised to learn th[...]
September 17th, 2019 - 12:37 am § in Schools & Colleges
A Trump Truth
Trump’s asserts that U.S. taxpayers don’t get enough bang for their buck, when US students’ test scores are ranked worldwide, He is correct. The most recent numbers put the United States at third for government spending on education, behind Switzerland and Norway but American students’ sco[...]
September 16th, 2019 - 11:04 pm § in Misc.
LEAK: What DOES Microsoft Pay?
Leak: from the Medium The numbers range from $40,000 to $320,000 and reveal key details about how pay works at big tech companies Dave Gershgorn \ Nearly 400 Microsoft employees are sharing their salaries with each other to better determine whether they’re being fairly compensated. The effort [...]
September 16th, 2019 - 12:50 pm § in America
Racist bank employees call 911 on black doctor who only wanted to open an account
Anthony Onyegbula, M.D., a cancer specialist practicing in Georgia, believes employees of United Community Bank in Henry County profiled him when they called police thinking he intended to rob the bank. “I feel like he’s up to no good,” a teller told the 911 dispatcher, offering li[...]
Credibility Matters and the Trump Regime Has None
Trump Admin Releases Satellite Photos It Says Proves Iran Attacked Saudi Oil Field J Planet Labs Inc via Reuters The Trump administration seems to be channeling Colin Powell’s infamous presentation of evidence that Iraq had an A-bomb. Credibility matters and we do not have any, anymore. Pompeo[...]
September 15th, 2019 - 10:27 am § in Misc.
Is Susan Collins a gullible fool?
She’d be a lousy juror. When Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced she would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, she said she believed “someone” had assaulted Christine Blasey Ford “at some point,” but contended Ford’s allegations failed “to [...]
September 15th, 2019 - 9:50 am § in Misc.
New Suspicions About Trump
The acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, is withholding a whistleblower complaint alleging serious wrongdoing within the intelligence community that may involve President Donald Trump, the House Intelligence Committee revealed on Friday. The House panel has subpoenaed Maguire t[...]
September 15th, 2019 - 1:28 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Jewish Men Deserve Multiple Wives
New Jewish group wants to restore polygamy Practice promoted as solution for the abundance of single women, Arab demographic threat and the predicament of seeking extramarital relations. JPOST.COM[...]