Archive for December, 2009

ads of christmas past

the love of all things madmen must have made the folks at oddee dig up these old ads from christmases past.  i couldn’t decide which one i liked better to share, the smokin’ santa or the stocking stuffer gun–as you can see, i went with the gun.  to take a closer look at more ads, click [...]


guess they didn’t watch csi

one would think the tech staff for the president is pretty tech savvy and if they wanted to delete some emails forever, they’d be able to do it. turns out that wasn’t true in the bush administration (george w). when asked to produced documents related to the 2006 firing of federal prosecutors some years back, [...]


something suddenly came up…

‘…my nose, marsha brady-style’.  that’s what italy’s prime minister silvio burlesconi thought when he was attacked by a crazy person in milan over the weekend. it seems the u.s. is not the only country with some security problems given that a man, identified as massimo tartaglia with some reported mental problems was able to knock [...]


. . . and so it begins

i know at the end of last week we lamented to o.d. on tiger woods stories, but thought it was interesting that accenture, a management consulting firm, decided to terminate its relationship with tiger woods.  no stranger to questionable ties (accenture was once a part of shamed–and defunct–accounting firm arthur andersen) it really had no [...]


news you can use: weekend edition

here’s a summary of the few things that happened this week at sacred bird the week ending december 11, 2009. remember to charm all the people you run into at holiday parties with great stories you read about here. at this point, they want to hear about something other than tiger woods.

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tiger has an out: blame it on the kids

the university of denver just produced results from an 8 year study of married couples and found that “kids curb marital satisfaction.” the study of 218 couples showed that the ones with kids experienced a 90% decrease in marital satisfaction. it goes on to say that while couples without kids experience a decline in [...]


jon stewart: going rogue

a tepid response from those weird europeans when you get a prize for peace (a week after you escalate the war) is kinda expected but a tepid response from jon stewart spells trouble. that guy is hilarious and um, kinda right.

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