The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Amazon’s New Secret Weapon: Delivery Lockers
Online Retailer Expands Use of Cabinets for Package Deliveries
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html
I spoke about Amazon’s increasing influence earlier, here it is again. It seems I failed to blog (or at least am failing to …
Corporate Fraud Cases Often Spare Individuals
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/business/more-fraud-settlements-for-companies-but-rarely-individuals.html?_r=2&hp
CEOs have wwwaaaayyyyy too much power today. They control the board when it is supposed to be the other way around and in nearly a majority of cases the CEO doesn’t even own …
Our Chick-fil-A economy
What happens when Americans start thinking about economic policy the same way they do gay marriage or abortion?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/our_chick_fil_a_economy/
Man am I getting liberal in my old age! Reading this article and its comments on the Prosperity …
Education reform’s central myths
The education debate rests on two faulty premises: that public schools are failures, and choice is the solution
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/school_choice_vs_reality/
My complaints about our education system pull from my background. Maybe our education system isn’t really bad, …
Ludicrous Times Op-Ed Forgets Entire Year of Wall Street History
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ludicrous-times-op-ed-forgets-entire-year-of-wall-street-history-20120801
More proof, as if we needed it, that we are all in really deep shit.…
Chris Hayes on elite failure
Why don’t American oligarchs fear the consequences of their corruption, and how can that be changed?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/chris_hayes_on_elite_failure/
It is a bit repetitive to bring up the police state again so soon, but this is another …
Plutocratic vistas: America’s crisis of democracy
Is the present American national legislature an “exact transcript of the whole society”?
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/30/plutocratic_vistas_salpart/
This is really interesting in its historical perspective. I talked earlier about the elite ‘conspiracy’ to rule the world, some …
Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem
Charles Murray examines the cloud now hanging over American business—and what today’s capitalists can do about it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577549223178294822.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
I got no idea who this Charles Murray guy is and am more than a bit …
GDP likely slowed without strong consumer spending
http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/25/news/economy/GDP-consumer-spending/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2
This is what happens when a strong (financially) government elects to engage in austerity during an economic downturn. The downturn goes on and on and on and on and growth, if there …
Romney in Piers Morgan interview: Stop attacking success
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/26/romney-in-piers-morgan-interview-stop-attacking-success/?hpt=hp_c2
I am now committed to voting for Obama (as much as I detest him; I think I would rather have voted for Ron Paul (and I detest him as well)). I …