First Steve Jobs and then Big Boy The BigBoy restaurant chain looks like it will not survive into ought twelve Sales of the iconic double decker have fallen 70% over the last ten years and 65% of the Big Boy stores have closed. The company’s owner, the Elias Brothers Corporation, declared [...]
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
December 11th, 2011 - 11:32 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Center Proposes Experience Terrorism Center
Crosscut, David Brewster (excerpted) : ……… a neutral-to-sympathetic portrayal of terrorism through the centuries,………….something no other American city has had the vision or moral courage to do, at least yet. There would be hands-on weapon-building instruct[...]
The Ugly Chinaman
president of china picking his nose. what went wrong in china: china culture: modesty and Harmony. Modesty: sick man of asia: if 70%-80% are peasants living with the cows chicken and sheep. I would modest too. Not a single Nobel prize winners ever. No science No industry No Congress, National assemb[...]
BERKELEY BLOG: Selling the 99% Agenda
A framing memo for Occupy Wall Street George Lakoff, professor of linguistics | 10/25/11 | CLICKME: to hear Frank Luntz advise Stephen Colbert on how to frame the Colbert Super Pak. I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movemen[...]
October 22nd, 2011 - 5:23 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
The Foundering Fathers vs Public Education
Mike Lee, Utah’s new Tea-Party Senator, tells us that: “…Congress has no business regulating our nation’s public education system, and has created problems whenever it has attempted to do so.” Senator Lee … not sure where your founding fathers did their founderi[...]
October 19th, 2011 - 5:28 pm § in Uncategorized
The Evolution of Rape?
Essay by PZ Myers at Pharyngula based on an article titled “Darwin’s Rape Whistle: Have women evolved to protect themselves from sexual assault?“, ….. The story is that women have evolved specific adaptive responses to the threat of rape. In support of this conclusion, the au[...]
HUMOR: The Great White Worm is Real! … Sasquatch is next!
The Northwest is as wierd and wonderful as Australia. All they have is pouches. We have clams with probosci that look like great black penises, slugs built like US Army tanks, ORCA whales that make humans seem boring, eagles that sore overhead but do not ever steal babies, big foot, and now, as�[...]
September 15th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
Mistakes Scientists Make
To Err is Human by Sarah Green, The Scientist Researchers bring their own values and passions to the lab bench. I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School[...]