subject to the usual challenge about the cardinal of chad and an ohio recount, the world has a new pope. Link
so here's the deal: until he resigned last month, thomas coughlin was wal-mart's vice-chairman and a long time board member. apparently wal-mart executives are as underpaid as anyone else in the organization because an internal audit revealed coughlin ripped off $500 grand using some kinda expense account scam. as if poor ol tom didnt have enuff problems, last week there was an article in the wall street journal suggesting coughlin had ordered several subordina...
if the title sounds sorta familiar, there's a reason. a post with a similar title appeared briefly in the political forum for a short time. in that one, the 'skanks' of the national organization for women were judged in need of: a. being slapped around b. the author declaring a jihad against them for joining with their 'selfish bitch' feminist sisters to force their anti-implant beliefs on the pure flower of american womanhood. wait..sorry, now's real c...
while it's still somewhat premature to suggest folks are going to be staying away from the papal funeral in droves, another prominent newsmaker appears unlikely to be in attendance. unlike martin luther, mehmet ali agca wants to be there but it's highly doubtful he can free up the time...or himself. citing 'other commitments that have me locked up here in turkey', agca said, 'by the beard of the bulgarian or east german prophet, i'd kill for a chance to say goodbye to my brother, the pope'...
a. you stay up all night with a bunch of your hypocrite associates to pass a law that violates the balance of powers. b. you vote for a law that is in direct opposition to the constitution by interfering with the rights of the several states (well actually a single state..but for the 2nd time in five years). c. you go out of your way to help enact a law that permits the federal government to impose itself into an individual family's affairs and cater to the the religious belie...
With apologies to the group War (as well as to Larry Kuperman whose article 'CEOs: Who Needs Them' Link began exactly this way): "CEO s, huh! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing!" well...it seems that may not have been totally accurate in the case of the newly former boeing ceo harry c. stonecipher. normally i'd be the last person to sympathize with a hardass professional corporate exec: 1. whose previous claim to fame had been pinkslipping 78,000 employees follo...
yall got no idea how badly i wish i'd not permitted myself to be distracted a few weeks ago and actually managed at that time to have checked out the grand ayatollah al-sistani's website as i'd been planning to do. if i had, this article would have appeared sooner...and i could say proudly i'd tripped over the shia version of 'dear abby' without anyone's assistance. as it is, i forgot about it til last friday night when i was reminded (in a most delightful way) by bill maher who is cle...
if former friend doug wead had taped george w. bush stopping short of candidly admitting he never used drugs, it would be a much bigger story. no matter how straightforward and morally valued his supporters may believe him to be, if they wouldn't happily sell the family cow for some magic beans, they either have enough magic beans already or they simply aren't that naive. it's not that he exhibits any of the so-called telltale stoner symptoms, although his public speaki...
dunno how many of you are aware of the controversy over lavasoft's adaware suddenly developing a mysterious inability to detect the presence of whenu scumware. mysterious not in the sense of being unexplained--it's clearly a consequence of lavasoft having decided to remove whenu from the database prior to issuing its most recent definition file on 2/5/2005--but more like that decision being seemingly unexplainable by lavasoft. as nearly as i can determine, this has b...
this is the city. washington, dc. named after our first president, george washington, it's the country's capitol and seat of government power. a lot of people live and work in dc. some are famous movers and shakers. others are anonymous cogs in the bureaucrat machine. the majority are honest, hard-working citizens. mixed among them are others willing to go to any length to get what they want...senators, members of congress, appointees, political consul...
paul o'neill--former bush administration secretary of the treasury--is an interesting guy who's proposing an intriguing alternative to social security as we know it. instead of trying to fix the existing program by throwing trillions of dollars at it with no guarantee of success, o'neill suggests we create a savings account for every us citizen--funding it with an initial deposit of $2000 on the date of birth. an additional $2000 would be added on each subsequent birthday t...
sorry bout luring you in with the u/c headline...as well as for its somewhat misleading message. while the pix below portray deepsea creatures that very well may evidence evolution in process, what i'm about to reveal is the story of this article--which was gonna be about strange deepsea creatures that washed ashore as the result of the tsunami--and how it evolved when i discovered my inspiration was actually a hoax. but first...some pix! this lil guy is a vampire squ...
i dunno if these were taken from a satellite (altho i guess they prolly were). to see the "during" and "after" views, just click on the photo. then click on the 'next' link. Link
with all the money, clothing, food, etc. donations that have already been sent to help victims of the tsunami, i doubt very much a couple thou would make much difference there. on the other hand, it could have a hell of an effect on my life if donated to equally worthy causes. the first causes that come to mind would be us supreme court justices scalia and thomas--one of whom is very likely going to replace chief justice rehnquist. neither is likely to object (pun intended...
if you havent seen this yet, it's new to you (as it was to me this morning). if you have, check it out again. youll need the quicktime plugin. Link