business and economy

they’ve got a logo and everything

if you’re milling about with nothing to do this summer, you might want to check out new online learning venture, beck university. exclusive content available only with the insider extreme subscription to glenn beck’s website, “professors” for the university include david barton of wall builders, a “pro-family organization”, david l. buckner, the president of a [...]


sir lancelot saves a damsel in distress (a.k.a. the iphone)

lots of people have been complaining about the reception problems associated with the iphone 4’s reception. seems as though people have isolated the problem to the nifty new antenna design that sits in strips within the stainless steal phone border.  steve jobs seems to have taken the lead of bumbling bp chief tony hayward because [...]


they must have been thinking of ‘the nutcracker’

thanks to a tip from my buddy and love anderson cooper, i learned about the bp’s blog from the gulf today.  in every way possible, the blog’s reporters take a glass half full reporting approach.  my favorite example of this was from a report filed on may 28.  in the blog post titled ballet at [...]


/’fat/

well filled out : thick, big <a fat book> b : full in tone and quality : rich <a gorgeous fat bass voice — Irish Digest> c :d : prosperous, wealthy <grew fat on the war — Time> e : being substantial and impressive <a fat bank account> well [...]


one bad egg is all it takes

land o’lakes settles on lawsuit on price fixing


costner dances with wolves

kevin costner testified in front of congress today about the oil spill advocating for a machine that his scientist brother is building and in which costner himself has invested $20M.  he said the machine “could separate oil from 200 gallons of polluted water in a minute [and that] BP, the company that owns the well [...]


live happily ever after…

food giant mcdonald’s has recalled about 12M commemorative shrek forever plastic cups because they expose consumers to cadmium and long term exposure to cadmium can cause health risks.  the joint doesn’t want a pesky health scare like this to ruin their healthy reputation, right? follow the link at the bottom of this article for recall [...]