From Found in Translation by David M.. Maal … Maalik … Malkowsky! …….You’ve probably had that experience too. You exchange pleasantries, swipe your Safeway card and then your debit card (or, heaven forbid, hand over your cash), have your groceries bagged, and what remains[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
May 18th, 2011 - 11:06 am § in America
HUMOR: American Exceptionalism
Is this funny? I dunno. Funny thing, under Merecedes, Chrysler seemed to morph its designs to look like American versions of the Mercedes. Personally, as a consumer, I would rather see more Ferraris and Alfas “built in the USA).[...]
May 18th, 2011 - 8:07 am § in Environment
Is Natural Gas Just a Bubble?
“Shale Gas: A View from the Bottom of the Resource Pyramid” A lecture at UW, by Arthur E. Berman, Director of Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc. and the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas USA. May 16th, 2011 Reviewed by Halstead Harrison. Arthur Berman works in an inter[...]
Trump-West Ticket Gains Ground in Iowa
(AP) GOP activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear deeply intrigued by, and open to, a run by Donald Trump, the publicity-loving business tycoon and host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” even as he perpetuates falsehoods about Obama’s citizenship and questions the [...]
May 3rd, 2011 - 7:06 pm § in Uncategorized
Breaking News: Deutche Bank sued by US government for fraud!
The Justice Department sued Deutsche Bank AG, one of the world’s 10 biggest banks by assets, on Tuesday for at least $1 billion for defrauding taxpayers by “repeatedly” lying to a federal agency when securing taxpayer-backed insurance for thousands of shoddy mortgages. read more at[...]
April 29th, 2011 - 8:12 am § in America
Pennsylvania to Drill for Gas on Campuses!
EDINBORO — Gov. Tom Corbett told the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees that the state’s universities could ease their financial woes by tapping into Marcellus shale deposits beneath their campuses. Speaking at Edinboro University during his first visit to northwestern Penn[...]
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:43 pm § in America
Poon Caught in Unfunny Prank
Ed. Why is this funny? It is funny to ME because the National Lampoon grew out of my college humor magazine, The Harvard Lampoon. Only Harvards (what we call ourselves) could pull off creating a national commercial success out of a college prank pub. Still not funny? Well, the nationalization [...]
Why American Education Outclasses the World.
Recently I had the “fun” of being invited to evaluate the world’s elite universities. I had read these ratings before but had not thought much about the process. One thing I REALLY tried to do was to be fair when it came to world class universities outside the US. I was especially [...]
2011 .. HUGE Increases in Salaries
from Huff Post WASHINGTON — CEOs at 299 U.S. companies earned a staggering $3.4 billion combined in executive compensation in 2010, a new study by the nation’s largest labor union found. Ed. Leaving aside right vs. left simplicity, what worries me is that this diversion of money is NOT going[...]
Radical Right: The Game of Chicken
This is inane. The radical right is playing a game of chicken with the American economy. [...]