February 2012
14 posts
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones →
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an... →
The world that produced John Kerry and George Bush is indeed giving us our next generation of leaders. The kid who’s loading up on AP courses junior year or editing three campus publications while double-majoring, the kid whom everyone wants at their college or law school but no one wants in their classroom, the kid who doesn’t have a minute to breathe, let alone think, will soon be running a...
The Story Behind the Olympus Scandal -... →
He mumbled darkly about Japanese organized crime—the Yakuza—and a corporate scandal he had uncovered in Tokyo. He claimed he had been the president and chief executive officer of a global corporation, had discovered that a fortune had gone missing, and then had been fired. He now had reason to believe, based on what he’d heard from journalists and fellow businessmen, that he might be killed.
Charles Munger: A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly... →
If you pay attention to Buffett, Munger is even better. In addition to this, his speech from 1995 is even better.
A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American... →
Awesome interview. Thiel for President.
America
NJ Assembly passes gay marriage bill
and
Tennessee Republicans Want To Ban Teachers From Saying Gay People Exist
This House Panel on Birth Control Consists...
good:
The GOP’s explanation: The fight over birth control coverage mandates is “not about women.” It’s about “religious liberties.”
Really? Or is it just easier to wage a culture war using the language of “freedom” and “big government”?
Read more on GOOD→
those are some creepy looking dudes.
Minneapolis Deputy Dan Ruettiman's suicide rocks... →
Another real life crime story.
Rodrigo Rosenberg’s Murder in Guatemala : The New... →
A real life crime story. Awesome and entertaining. A must read.
The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership -... →
Great leadership read and commencement speech from the military academy
“In the end, it really does come down to real estate, and the blazing commercial...”
– The Mystery of Duane Reade
Oh how the world has changed. This gem is from 2005 and talks about how Duane Reade is such a smart company grabbing up undervalued real estate. To me, Duane Reade comes off as one of the worst companies I’ve ever read about. Treat their employee’s like...
The Obama Memos →
For JVH
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Interesting takeaway from this article. All people debate is measuring teacher performance. They miss the larger challenges at stake.
January 2012
20 posts
The bearded man laughing at his daughter is Bill... →
Interesting read about Bill Russell from 1963. If the 24hr news cycle existed in his time, he would have been his days’ TO, Ochocinco and Shaw combined.
The Prosecution’s Case Against DNA →
These wrongful convictions are so absurd and angering, especially even after the DNA should save them.
Los Angeles From Silver Lake to Suicide: One... →
Didn’t really know anything about Jonestown before this, so pretty interesting read.
Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will... →
The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he’s a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.
Andrew Sullivan is smarter than me.
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“I want to build my own city,” he said. The settlement, he explained, would...”
– Stephon Marbury’s Career Makeover in China: Profiles: GQ
Marbury is nuts, but apparently very popular in China
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No Country for Innocent Men →
How an dead man got pardoned. Gotta love Texas
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“Except, of course, there is. Somehow, what troubles people isn’t so much being...”
– Annals of Medicine: The Bell Curve : The New Yorker
For years the NBA Hall of Famer has claimed that... →
For years the NBA Hall of Famer has claimed that his high school coach underestimated his talent as a sophomore. Clifton (Pop) Herring, whose life has been a struggle since then, tells a different story
“In my classroom, students lose 1/4 point for wrong answers on quizzes. But for...”
– Freakonomics » When It Pays to Say “I Don’t Know” (via mollybierman)
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“I remember one of the soldiers saying to me, You know, if I wasn’t a terrorist...”
– Guantanamo - An Oral History — www.vanityfair.com — Readability
Jonah Lehrer on concussions in adolescents and the... →
will you let your kids play football?
Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana · Diary:... →
A guantanamo Prisoner Diary. A must read.
we have had a string of presidents where most people would agree, “yeah I would like to grab a drink with him or have dinner with him.” they are interesting people. for some reason mitt romney does not pass that test. he just seems like a douchebag. he made a comment about worrying about his job at a top tier consulting firm. as someone who has worked at those firms, this is not a...
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on movies.
I wish there was a way to interface the movies on Comast on demand with rottentomatoes rankings or something where I could find good movies I’ve never heard of. Any ideas?
Just watched the ghost writer and I thought it was excellent, though if they had done it as a Serial TV Drama, it could have been as good as Homeland.
Anyone have any great movies you’ve seen this year?
December 2011
27 posts
This Is The Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired As CEO... →
Mark Hurd is a creep. Why would any company want him as CEO (looking at you, Oracle).
Cardinal George Stands By KKK Comment, Calls For... →
another impressive leader from the catholic church
“Those moves have continued, including this month’s addition of certified...”
– Jacksonville Jaguars’ Maurice Jones-Drew says lawsuits have caused NFL to crack down on concussions - ESPN
This sounds like a sweet job.
Ouch: A Year's Worth of Occasionally Disturbing... →
These are great, especially:
For women, an increase in personal grooming time is associated with lower earnings; for example, if a nonminority woman doubles her daily grooming from 45 minutes to 90 minutes, her earnings drop an average of 3.4%
and:
Activating a positive superstitious belief can boost people’s confidence, which in turn improves performance: In an experiment, a dexterity...
“Their results are fairly counter-intuitive. They showed that traditional...”
– Roland Fryer Identifies Five Habits of Successful Charter Schools
Interesting education research.
The Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair →
Stiglitz’ version of “the great stagnation” just a little shorter. Worth reading just for the sense that at least a few people “get it.”
The Legend Of Black Superman: Billy Ray Bates,... →
The Michael Jordan/Charlie Sheen of the Philippines
“Fan death is a widely held belief in South Korea that an electric fan left...”
– Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Absurd facts of the day
How Doctors Die →
“Anybody who had a hand in letting Holloway and Mark Lyons speak to the media...”
– Mark Titus Top 12 NCAA Power Rankings on Syracuse, Indiana-Kentucky, and the rest of the week in college basketball - Grantland
thats a very stiff penalty considering how awful skyline chili is.
“I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
Interesting Louis CK going direct to consumers with new standup special. Wonder what HBO thinks about this
things that are unnecessary
when people present and say, “I won’t go into too much detail” and then go into a bunch of detail. I’ll call this one MIT syndrome.
reading every word from a powerpoint slide. your first mistake was using all text. give me a pretty picture to look at and tell me a story.
expensive wedding invitations. no one saves these. order two or three for your scrap-bookers and...