As I already admitted, I didn’t do any research to see if the management bore a substantial part of the responsibility for the problems Hostess is/was having. Perhaps I should have, as this article presents a pretty damning picture against …
Category: Society
Antifragility
Learning to Love Volatility
In a world that constantly throws big, unexpected events our way, we must learn to benefit from disorder, writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324735104578120953311383448.html
This is a _really_ interesting article, I strongly recommend it to my reader(s). …
Women get younger every year!
Early Arrival
Premature puberty among girls poses scientific puzzle
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/346459/title/Early_Arrival
I find this article quite interesting on several levels. The list of possible ‘suspects’ is quite broad (no doubt they all have some contribution, very little is black or white …
A question regarding interest rates
A friend of mine sent me an email asking to leverage my MBA education to learn about government manipulation of interest rates. I decided to go ahead and respond to him through a blog post since I figured it might …
Another one bites the dust…
Hostess Brands closing for good
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Unions are not automatically bad, just like private equity is not automatically bad. However, just like private equity (something that should be very familiar to anyone who didn’t sleep the last two years; Romney …
Will Democratic success result in the extinction of our species?
How Republicans persuaded women to re-elect President Obama
For the activists of Emily’s List, working to improve women’s political representation, Republicans like Todd Akin were a gift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/republicans-persuaded-women-reelect-obama
Yes of course my headline is a bit of hyperbole, but I …
Pendulum swinging back?
Phony school “reform” agenda takes a beating
The media barely noticed, but voters in three states rejected the profit-driven fraud that is education “reform”
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/phony_school_reform_agenda_takes_a_beating/
I have decried our education system several times, particularly with respect to the ‘educational …
Bit on the ass by the police state
FBI’s abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/petraeus-surveillance-state-fbi
As Glenn put it: “…there is some …
Visualization
Red state, blue state
Resizing geographic areas by population gives more accurate view of 2012 election
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346315/title/Red_state%2C_blue_state
My wife was talking about this the other day: how looking at the typical US map of ‘red’ vs ‘blue’ states from the …
Selling our country one nickle at a time
Fake tech gear has infiltrated the U.S. government
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html?source=cnn_bin
What is really amazing to me is the totally unspoken story about the non-governmental costs associated with this exact same issue. Because the government has historically been required to go with …