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So apparently there’s yet another bad cover letter making the rounds. It’s pretty bad. But sorry, it doesn’t beat one I have. Some background: This isn’t some friend of a friend thing: It really came to me when I worked for a medical advertising agency. So this person was applying to be an editorial assistant […] With all the recent attention on copyrights, it’s worth checking out this article by Nina Paley: it details how Pyrex, once a brand name for a particularly strong, heat-resistant type of glass, is now being put on all sorts of glass. So people who see the Pyrex brand and expect the glass to stand up […] Krugman does some fine skewering here, showing how several pundits, instead of honestly backtracking on their anti-Keynesian positions, pretend they never held them in the first place. But it raises the question–how did we get to the point that apparently smart, nationally known pundits think they can just say whatever they want, with nobody questioning […] “Being poor is a mindset. And it’s one that, if given the chance, will make your ass poor again.” From today’s Cracked.com article, “The 5 stupidest habits you develop growing up poor.” In honor of the PIPA/SOPA boycott, our first quote of the day is from Jack Valenti, head of the MPAA, in 1982: “I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Yep. The VCR came out, and […] Is, of course, a cartoon by The Oatmeal. Lots of sites are dark today, but none are quite so entertaining. I’m a fan of Planet Money, so I hate to first bring up Adam Davidson by disagreeing with him. But his article in Sunday’s New York Times, “What has Wall Street done for you lately,” begs to be refuted. The article (mostly) defends Wall Street by pointing out that we need finance, which is like […] So Mark Crovelli at Mises.org, whoever he is, has a post that I am still having trouble believing. Essentially, he argues that economists don’t need the scientific method–that pesky process of checking your conclusions against the real world—as long as they’re smart enough to understand how things really work. Now: Mises.org is an organ of […] The Wall Street Journal had a good post a week or two ago analyzing Ron Paul’s investment strategy, which is, um, a little out there. Basically, the guy has a huge amount of stock in gold and silver mining companies, which is a big bet that the price of gold and silver will go up. […] So apparently one of my least favorite humans, Donald Trump, is taking credit for launching the career of another of my least favorite humans, Lady Gaga, in his new book. Well, here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: it’s worth looking at Trump’s thought process. From the article: Trump explained that he owns the […] |
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