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  • Jul 30, 2009

    Morning Reading

    This morning, oh, the hubris. Plus, the reason real health care reform (noted in my last post) won't pass. And Yahoo may've just swallowed…

  • A friend forwarded me an email from the Democrat National Committee which asks people to donate a dollar a day on their credit cards until Congress…

  • When companies partner with each other, I generally find it difficult to stop my gag reflex. There are usually more buzzwords tossed around and…

  • As you probably know, President Obama has invited Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police Sergeant James Crowley to the White…

  • Jul 29, 2009

    Morning Report

    This morning, moving to Norway sounds like a fine idea. So does a package of blue M&M's. So does… well, just read on:…

  • I know, it's crazy, right? But I have hard evidence, direct from a new study on spending habits that the US and China are destined to walk down…

  • Jul 28, 2009

    Life, the movie

    The line between what is real and what is not is getting smudged like an autograph in the rain. Take, for example, an inspired high school…

  • Jul 28, 2009

    Rich Utilitarians

    A group called Wealth for the Common Good has launched a campaign to repeal the Bush tax cuts immediately, instead of waiting for them to expire in…

  • Here's my scruples question of the day: You find a lottery ticket on the floor of a supermarket. It turns out to be a winner — for tens of…

  • Jul 28, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Bank of America is no longer expanding from sea to shining sea. It seems to be medium-izing itself. Nothing wrong with that. But they might have…

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