THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
ESPNCORP NETWORK NEWS's boss left in a huff, and we challenge even the most media-mad to tell us that anyone outside ESPNCORP cares.
We are SURE UB IGER doesn't.
We are SURE UB IGER doesn't.
I say depression too.
One wonders how long CEOs can go on paying those fat annual salary increases to themselves by not hiring people. But hey, the Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang got Himself a JOB!
One wonders how long CEOs can go on paying those fat annual salary increases to themselves by not hiring people. But hey, the Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang got Himself a JOB!
Well! The Kennedy Center Entertainment HHonors have finally ceased with the bulltwaddle that they're about the arts! They awarded QUEEN OPRAH, Who bequeathed us with Her President! Plainly the Center's grand poobahs want Her and Lord McCartney to finance a few renovations of the Casino on the Potomac. Good luck with that one!
And I mean jeez, I like Merle Haggard and Jerry Herman too but aren't we carrying our fundraising a bit too far?
And I mean jeez, I like Merle Haggard and Jerry Herman too but aren't we carrying our fundraising a bit too far?
But elsewhere the sad (sniff sniff) tale of Kim Kardashian's ex shows that maybe money worship can only go so far.
And we'd feel sad too as we did for Marion Jones but you figure, he got what he wanted.
And we'd feel sad too as we did for Marion Jones but you figure, he got what he wanted.
Tiger Woods is going to the Ryder Cup as a captain's pick with his 71 victories and 14 majors.
The CEOs win!
The CEOs win!
Monday, September 06, 2010
It is dispiriting enough that BB has become a crank, a crank only fitfully right; worse, she has assumed the attitude of the total crank and let her looks go to pot as well as her brains. For a woman at 75 cosmetics have their limits, but why must she look like a hag? And that's doubly dispiriting because long ago she wasn't. There are strong arguments against plastic surgery; BB comes dangerously close to an argument for it.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Five years ago:
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!
Incidentally we should remind our two readers that the man we used to call "ER" is now courageously demonstrating the truth of the PETER PRINCIPLE.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!
Incidentally we should remind our two readers that the man we used to call "ER" is now courageously demonstrating the truth of the PETER PRINCIPLE.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
As after an intolerable eternity the Wizards of Mountain View have finally enabled typists with lots of posts and old Blogger to correct them I shall be doing just that, although I intend to limit my changes to obvious blunders of spelling or grammar, and will note them in parentheses at the end of the targeted posts. I will also restore photos where I can (as here -- and better), and with any luck, links. Thank you for something, G000,000,000,000,000GLE!
As a not-entirely-happy union member I must post this in full (with the understanding, we hope, of KAPLAN, INC.):
Why Is the AFL-CIO's Web Site So Bad?
Posted Friday, September 03, 2010 1:45 PM | By James Ledbetter
What's the best way for a labor union to present itself? In 1992, two union experts, Sam Pizzigati and Fred Solowey, published an unusual book called The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement. Part history and part advocacy, it's a thorough examination of how American unions historically have communicated with their own members and with the outside world. Some union newspapers were surprisingly good, either because they did pioneering journalism about strikes, lockouts, and working conditions, or because they gave their readers a service that was hard to find elsewhere. (Did you know that the garment workers' union newspaper Justice published a Yiddish edition until the mid-1960s, and an Italian edition until the late 1980s?)
But the bad union newspapers—and there have been many—are all bad in the same way. They become house organs for their leaders, spewing out endless proclamations, reproducing Ceausescu-like pictures of forced handshakes, and rendering invisible the actual rank-and-file. They are closed systems, speaking a private language exclusively to an internal audience that is probably not paying attention anyway.
Alas, little has changed in the digital age. Visiting the AFL-CIO Web site in search of some Labor Day inspiration is a singularly disheartening task. The primary message you get from the site is to vote for Democrats in November (thanks for the tip). An affiliate organization asks on the home page "Not a Union Member?"—which mathematically is a pretty good bet. Beyond that, though, little thought appears to have gone into making the site persuasive, or even genuinely comprehensible, to someone who's not already part of the club. There's some video from a recent Young Worker's Summit and an exhortation to attend a rally in October. There are some online games that are so hamfisted (health insurance is a shell game!) they almost have camp value.
Some lists of resources, on topics like the global economy or immigration, are actually quite useful; others seem like Web graveyards that have not been tended in a very long time. In either case, it's not clear that most people would know to visit them unless they were already on the site. There are some actual workers depicted on the site, and reasonably prominently. But they come off like political props, always presented as if the most interesting and important thing about them is their union membership.
What might an ideal union Web site look like? For starters, it could be a lot more practical, foregrounding workplace dilemmas and explaining issues to workers looking for guidance. Second, it could use the news to make the case for unionism, rather than assuming the reader already filters news through a union lens. (As it happens, Sam Pizzigati, the editor mentioned above, now runs a site about economic inequality called Too Much that does a decent job with this.) And finally, it could take advantage of the Web's unique interactivity and become a place where workers talk to one another. Sadly, a lot of unions probably wouldn't put up with that.
GRATE.COM?!?!?!?!?
Why Is the AFL-CIO's Web Site So Bad?
Posted Friday, September 03, 2010 1:45 PM | By James Ledbetter
What's the best way for a labor union to present itself? In 1992, two union experts, Sam Pizzigati and Fred Solowey, published an unusual book called The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement. Part history and part advocacy, it's a thorough examination of how American unions historically have communicated with their own members and with the outside world. Some union newspapers were surprisingly good, either because they did pioneering journalism about strikes, lockouts, and working conditions, or because they gave their readers a service that was hard to find elsewhere. (Did you know that the garment workers' union newspaper Justice published a Yiddish edition until the mid-1960s, and an Italian edition until the late 1980s?)
But the bad union newspapers—and there have been many—are all bad in the same way. They become house organs for their leaders, spewing out endless proclamations, reproducing Ceausescu-like pictures of forced handshakes, and rendering invisible the actual rank-and-file. They are closed systems, speaking a private language exclusively to an internal audience that is probably not paying attention anyway.
Alas, little has changed in the digital age. Visiting the AFL-CIO Web site in search of some Labor Day inspiration is a singularly disheartening task. The primary message you get from the site is to vote for Democrats in November (thanks for the tip). An affiliate organization asks on the home page "Not a Union Member?"—which mathematically is a pretty good bet. Beyond that, though, little thought appears to have gone into making the site persuasive, or even genuinely comprehensible, to someone who's not already part of the club. There's some video from a recent Young Worker's Summit and an exhortation to attend a rally in October. There are some online games that are so hamfisted (health insurance is a shell game!) they almost have camp value.
Some lists of resources, on topics like the global economy or immigration, are actually quite useful; others seem like Web graveyards that have not been tended in a very long time. In either case, it's not clear that most people would know to visit them unless they were already on the site. There are some actual workers depicted on the site, and reasonably prominently. But they come off like political props, always presented as if the most interesting and important thing about them is their union membership.
What might an ideal union Web site look like? For starters, it could be a lot more practical, foregrounding workplace dilemmas and explaining issues to workers looking for guidance. Second, it could use the news to make the case for unionism, rather than assuming the reader already filters news through a union lens. (As it happens, Sam Pizzigati, the editor mentioned above, now runs a site about economic inequality called Too Much that does a decent job with this.) And finally, it could take advantage of the Web's unique interactivity and become a place where workers talk to one another. Sadly, a lot of unions probably wouldn't put up with that.
GRATE.COM?!?!?!?!?
Paul Conrad, an extremely angry cartoonist, has died, and let's hope he's somewhere he can be a little less angry.
Lately we called our two surfers' attention to the Wall Street Journals' press release on that great patri-OT GEN. McDONALD of the MOON 'n' STARS CORPS. One of the GEN.'s favorites is George Patton. You may recall Patton went into military hospitals and slapped several soldiers. It does not exaggerate to say those slaps changed the course of history, for they denied Patton a command in the European theater, and had he taken his characteristic furious charge further into Nazi territory it could have moved the Iron Curtain further back, saving millions. (Patton later apologized for the slaps.)
We thought of this today as it is obvious that autocratic PC buffoon INDRA must somewhere in the back of Her pacified head admire the slapping incidents, since today in a convenience store we saw several bags of Her company's snack food bearing a graphic reading thus:
It is bad enough that martinets like GEN. McDONALD must strafe us with Their contempt, but here INDRA is firing a warning shot at RETAILERS: with that clever positioning of ONLY She is ordering retailers DON'T CHARGE LESS. If we had connections we'd take INDRA and Her fraudulent gang to the FTC for restraint of trade. Instead, we can only gripe impotently, and get nicked by gun-wielding CEO fools.
Few would argue that defending liberal principle serves Obama’s short-term interests. Americans oppose the mosque 61 percent to 26 percent, according to one recent poll, and support the Arizona law by an even wider margin. But even if some people don’t like Islam, or illegal immigrants, or gay weddings, they may respond to admonitions that our society is built around freedom of conscience and equal treatment under law. If he applied his oratorical gifts to these principles, Obama could remind a grumbling nation what it liked about him in the first place.
Jake, people do not respond to hectoring -- especially when the hectoring is for their own good, and the hectorers are always right. Look at HONORARY MAYOR MIKE's.
You still in the running to edit SIDSWEEK? Sounds it.
P. S. PREDICTION: If Jake's "promoted" MR. JOURNOLIST takes his place at Grate.com. Knee-jerk lockstep independent thinking marches on!
Jake, people do not respond to hectoring -- especially when the hectoring is for their own good, and the hectorers are always right. Look at HONORARY MAYOR MIKE's.
You still in the running to edit SIDSWEEK? Sounds it.
P. S. PREDICTION: If Jake's "promoted" MR. JOURNOLIST takes his place at Grate.com. Knee-jerk lockstep independent thinking marches on!
And speaking of liberal John Stossels, people who predicted Obamacare would spin out enough money to finance the government should not be knocking the other side.
Who is this intern and where did he come from?
Who is this intern and where did he come from?
John "Cato" Stossel's favorite heroes are -- BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!! With luck maybe this time they'll do less damage. Maybe with luck we won't have a repeat performance by John touting their HEROISM either.
Taxpayers likely to face initial loss on GM IPO: sources
So that's why Obama Motors is holding off until after the election?
So that's why Obama Motors is holding off until after the election?
Friday, September 03, 2010
The Crainiacs dream that now that Burger King is private it'll spend more money annoying people with junk television and condescending ads.
Do the Crainiacs' dreams ever NOT come true? Let's see if the acquirer's dreams do.
Do the Crainiacs' dreams ever NOT come true? Let's see if the acquirer's dreams do.
Luigi Creatore, previously a writer of small-potatoes comedies....
Let us say we did a double-take at John Simon's slighting description. We would not have thought him alive, let alone a playwright. (He turns 90 in December.) He has just written a drama called An Error of the Moon, about the Booth family. Back in the sixties Mr. Creatore co-authored the flop musical Maggie Flynn, a Civil War-era vehicle for Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones. This he wrote with his cousin Hugo Peretti and the late George David Weiss. Still don't remember? All three were songwriters, and the cousins (we didn't know that until today) were record producers, A&R men for Roulette (and the notorious Morris Levy) and later RCA; they did everything from The Tokens (and a lawsuit) to "The Hustle." If you've collected enough records you've seen the puzzling "Hugo & Luigi" logo. The trio's most famous achievement was to get a songwriter named Martini to write them a ballad called "Can't Help Falling in Love." It tickles us to see that one member of this triumvirate is still standing, and it forces us to ask whether the former scourge of the former Broadway really knows that much.
P. S. According to the bio Mr. Creatore has had only one other play produced, off-Broadway, so that small-potatoes knock doubly puzzles us.
Let us say we did a double-take at John Simon's slighting description. We would not have thought him alive, let alone a playwright. (He turns 90 in December.) He has just written a drama called An Error of the Moon, about the Booth family. Back in the sixties Mr. Creatore co-authored the flop musical Maggie Flynn, a Civil War-era vehicle for Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones. This he wrote with his cousin Hugo Peretti and the late George David Weiss. Still don't remember? All three were songwriters, and the cousins (we didn't know that until today) were record producers, A&R men for Roulette (and the notorious Morris Levy) and later RCA; they did everything from The Tokens (and a lawsuit) to "The Hustle." If you've collected enough records you've seen the puzzling "Hugo & Luigi" logo. The trio's most famous achievement was to get a songwriter named Martini to write them a ballad called "Can't Help Falling in Love." It tickles us to see that one member of this triumvirate is still standing, and it forces us to ask whether the former scourge of the former Broadway really knows that much.
P. S. According to the bio Mr. Creatore has had only one other play produced, off-Broadway, so that small-potatoes knock doubly puzzles us.
Speaking of irrelevant, how often must HENRY HONEST!!!!! treat us to this:
BHussein on Sep 3, at 10:23 AM said:
I want to thank Fidel, Hugo, Kim and all the wonderful Comunists who swept me into power. SOCIALISM FOREVER!
Dubya on Sep 3, at 10:30 AM said:
Which would not have been possible if my good Nazis friends had not kept me in power for eight years. SIEG HEIL! Long live the SS!
SHUT UP, HENRY HONEST!!!!!
P. S. I made these comments up -- and so do the commenters.
BHussein on Sep 3, at 10:23 AM said:
I want to thank Fidel, Hugo, Kim and all the wonderful Comunists who swept me into power. SOCIALISM FOREVER!
Dubya on Sep 3, at 10:30 AM said:
Which would not have been possible if my good Nazis friends had not kept me in power for eight years. SIEG HEIL! Long live the SS!
SHUT UP, HENRY HONEST!!!!!
P. S. I made these comments up -- and so do the commenters.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USAOKAY!!!!! unleashes SIX GANNETTOIDS and 2,821 WORDS on a SIZZLING INVESTIGATIVE REPORT on...RETURNING TV SHOWS!!!!! Here's CRUSADING WORK if ever there was!
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to BILL, JAYME, MIKE, GARY, MARCO and BRUCE!
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to BILL, JAYME, MIKE, GARY, MARCO and BRUCE!
God we are tired of mourning for Mike Royko but TINA!!!!! hackwork like this makes us seethe because there's wicked satire buried here, and we wouldn't expect "frequent contributor[s] to the business pages of The New York Times and...former Moscow-based correspondent[s] for Reuters" to disburse it.
And the comments are singularly irrelevant and annoying. Why ever bother reading comments?
And the comments are singularly irrelevant and annoying. Why ever bother reading comments?
Which reminds us -- it's time for our irregular feature, PLAYER ARRESTED!
1. University of Georgia Police took out a warrant Thursday for the arrest of Georgia football player Alec Ogletree on a misdemeanor charge of theft by taking.
UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson told the AJC that the warrant stems from a June 15 incident in which a motorcycle scooter helmet, valued at $35, was taken from the Rankin Smith Center on campus.
The helmet was found in Ogletree’s possession Thursday, Williamson said.
2. The Michigan State basketball team is again dealing with off-court issues of one of its guards.
Junior Korie Lucious was arrested early Monday morning on a charge of operating while intoxicated, according to records obtained by The Detroit News on Tuesday.
Lucious was pulled over at 2:20 a.m. on Charles Street near Linden Street in East Lansing and given a breathalyzer test. He registered at .09, just above Michigan's legal limit of .08. He was released on his own recognizance.
3. A Grizzly football player landed himself in jail overnight for drunk driving. It's the second time in a month a Griz player was charged with a misdemeanor.
4. An Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody.
Corvallis police say they received the call about a naked intruder early Sunday.
Officer Christine Peterson says responding officers ordered 19-year-old Tyler Patrick Thomas of Kalispell, Mont., to get on the ground. She says Thomas instead dropped into a three-point stance like a football player and lunged at the officers. At that point, Peterson says, two officers fired their stun guns.
"I think he just had too much to drink and got a little rowdy," said Jeremy Noring, who awoke to Thomas inside his home.
1. University of Georgia Police took out a warrant Thursday for the arrest of Georgia football player Alec Ogletree on a misdemeanor charge of theft by taking.
UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson told the AJC that the warrant stems from a June 15 incident in which a motorcycle scooter helmet, valued at $35, was taken from the Rankin Smith Center on campus.
The helmet was found in Ogletree’s possession Thursday, Williamson said.
2. The Michigan State basketball team is again dealing with off-court issues of one of its guards.
Junior Korie Lucious was arrested early Monday morning on a charge of operating while intoxicated, according to records obtained by The Detroit News on Tuesday.
Lucious was pulled over at 2:20 a.m. on Charles Street near Linden Street in East Lansing and given a breathalyzer test. He registered at .09, just above Michigan's legal limit of .08. He was released on his own recognizance.
3. A Grizzly football player landed himself in jail overnight for drunk driving. It's the second time in a month a Griz player was charged with a misdemeanor.
4. An Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody.
Corvallis police say they received the call about a naked intruder early Sunday.
Officer Christine Peterson says responding officers ordered 19-year-old Tyler Patrick Thomas of Kalispell, Mont., to get on the ground. She says Thomas instead dropped into a three-point stance like a football player and lunged at the officers. At that point, Peterson says, two officers fired their stun guns.
"I think he just had too much to drink and got a little rowdy," said Jeremy Noring, who awoke to Thomas inside his home.
There is GRAVE CONCERN in Happy Valley that finally St. JoePa will retire this year. Professional college sports having long ago become part of Corporate America it's all one to us; two hundred years from now Penn State will still be a football factory, although perhaps by that time the players will finally be paid for their moral turpitude.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
You need to publish crap to sell crap.
HEY SOB, HE'S PLAYING YOUR SONG!
YOURS TOO, CARLOS THE JACKASS!
HEY SOB, HE'S PLAYING YOUR SONG!
YOURS TOO, CARLOS THE JACKASS!
Obama on Detroit Big 3: 'Why can't they make a Corolla?'
I don't know, Barack "DURANT" Obama -- aren't YOU the CEO?
I don't know, Barack "DURANT" Obama -- aren't YOU the CEO?
ONE OF THE MOST DISGRACEFUL THINGS I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!!
IN CASE AFTER CASE AFTER CASE, THE ROBERTS COURT HAS PUT NOT JUST A THUMB, BUT A FIST, ON THE SCALE IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS -- (pause for comedic effect) -- A FIST WITH BRASS KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!!! [Comedic overemphasis added]
"He's still very sensitive to the fact that there's a stereotype out there of Angry Al," says his dear, dear, DEAR friend NORM C. W. ORNSTEIN.
We too hope Angry Al steps "out of his shell" -- so he can put his newly emerged foot in his mouth.
IN CASE AFTER CASE AFTER CASE, THE ROBERTS COURT HAS PUT NOT JUST A THUMB, BUT A FIST, ON THE SCALE IN FAVOR OF CORPORATIONS -- (pause for comedic effect) -- A FIST WITH BRASS KNUCKLES!!!!!!!!!! [Comedic overemphasis added]
"He's still very sensitive to the fact that there's a stereotype out there of Angry Al," says his dear, dear, DEAR friend NORM C. W. ORNSTEIN.
We too hope Angry Al steps "out of his shell" -- so he can put his newly emerged foot in his mouth.
History teaches us that if SPEAKER BANEHEAD fails and a third party comes to life not to expect much. The GOP is itself the descendant of another party that lost its way, the W-HIGS, and any "new" party would merely be a stew with the same old ingredients. And the DEMOCRATS have existed for over two centuries.
HENRY HONEST!!!!! (in collaboration with FORBESLISTBLOG) has compiled a list of HISTORY'S RICHEST GAZILLIONAIRES, and we're disappointed only one con-SER-va-tive made the list -- although William the Conqueror might count as an honorary con-SER-va-tive, and so would J. D. Rockefeller -- if he hadn't sired DEMOCRATS. What strikes us though is that despite the made-up numbers most of these vast fortunes vanished. What happened to the Vanderbilts'? Or A. T. Stewart's? Or Stephen Girard's? But nothing will stop megalomaniacal Web creatures from insisting in their own way you CAN take it with you.
Stephen Hawking changes his view on God
See, YAHOO!LIGANS at $13.52, down 20 percent for the year, down 30 percent since May, down 80 percent since 2000, when I saw the home-page hed I knew how he changed them. I repeat: is there anyway of getting your CW NEWS off the home page?
(The best I can do is Page Options / Move News Down. Not GOOD enough, $13.52 a share!)
P. S. at 6:36 p. m. Given stories like this (not to mention this one from March) we can safely say Web news sites have become even more ossified than the print.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Mr. Golis spent several years as the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo, where he helped grow Joshua Marshall’s progressive political site into a thriving boutique news organization.
TRANSLATION: Several of his tantrums have made the home page. JOURNOLIST, anyone?
See, YAHOO!LIGANS at $13.52, down 20 percent for the year, down 30 percent since May, down 80 percent since 2000, when I saw the home-page hed I knew how he changed them. I repeat: is there anyway of getting your CW NEWS off the home page?
(The best I can do is Page Options / Move News Down. Not GOOD enough, $13.52 a share!)
P. S. at 6:36 p. m. Given stories like this (not to mention this one from March) we can safely say Web news sites have become even more ossified than the print.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Mr. Golis spent several years as the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo, where he helped grow Joshua Marshall’s progressive political site into a thriving boutique news organization.
TRANSLATION: Several of his tantrums have made the home page. JOURNOLIST, anyone?
Which raises the question, how much of SI's empire is off the record? How much of what the professional scribblers do is off the record? When people speak of sunlight and disinfectant they've readied truckloads of blinds.
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND RECALLED:
Ferrari says it is recalling 1,248 of its 458 Italia supercars [!] after reports of fires breaking out in five of the luxury vehicles in several countries.
Ferrari says it is recalling 1,248 of its 458 Italia supercars [!] after reports of fires breaking out in five of the luxury vehicles in several countries.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Megan McArdle, you have superbly justified your decision not to work among the well-paid parasites.
(Via HENRY HONEST!!!!!, who has been intimate with them)
(Via HENRY HONEST!!!!!, who has been intimate with them)
“The good news is that some people are thinking beyond November,” said a senior GOP aide with extensive experience on House procedures. “I can’t say precisely what, but something will happen.”
We know what will happen. Surprise us, Republicans!
We know what will happen. Surprise us, Republicans!
Whirlpool to Invest in Tennessee Plant
Hmmm, what's the reason behind this? Tax breaks? Politicians to curry favor with? Do we shut the plant down when our profits feel like it? Even when Corporate America does its extremely little good we must question its motives.
(Via Seeking Alpha)
Hmmm, what's the reason behind this? Tax breaks? Politicians to curry favor with? Do we shut the plant down when our profits feel like it? Even when Corporate America does its extremely little good we must question its motives.
(Via Seeking Alpha)
CEOs that lay off workers earn more: study
The liberals' answer: regulate CEO pay. The conservatives' answer: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!!!!!
The liberals' answer: regulate CEO pay. The conservatives' answer: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!!!!!
We hate to sound like the proverbial broken record (or rather the skipped CD) but when we read these ads we comfort ourselves to know GanNETtdom's stock is lower now than 25 years ago.
Dear Yahoo!:
Is there any way I can turn off the WE'LL-TELL-YOU-WHAT-TO-THINK CW NEWS on your home page?
Yours,
Eugene David
Is there any way I can turn off the WE'LL-TELL-YOU-WHAT-TO-THINK CW NEWS on your home page?
Yours,
Eugene David
Washington's Tiresome War on TV Curse Words
What's that strong Bhopal-like odor wafting from New York? Oh, it must be -- SYNERGY!!!!!!!!!!
What's that strong Bhopal-like odor wafting from New York? Oh, it must be -- SYNERGY!!!!!!!!!!