lullaby pit

catwhite has sent along a link to the Wal-Mart healthcare memo from WalMartWatch.com. [sigh] Once upon a time there was this thing called the “cost of doing business.” It was understood that in order to make money you had to spend money and there were going to be costs. The trick was to align those costs so that they fostered

Friends, It’s my great pleasure to announce that this afternoon I accepted an offer to join The Bloom Agency as its new Director of Strategic Development. We still aren’t 100% sure what that title means, exactly, but the good news is that Art Bloom, the agency’s Principal, actually looked at the “diversity of experience” on my resume and saw something

If you scroll down, you’ll see that earlier today I had a brief entry about the death of Wellington Mara. If you check the comments, you’ll see that one of my former students, Tom Shortell, was stunned that I’d marked Mara’s death before that of Rosa Parks. Of course, read on and you’ll see that I had an excuse, sort

I’ve been asking questions for the past few days. All kinds of questions. Some of the questions appear to be aimed at others, but in truth, they’re mostly aimed at the guy in the mirror. The last few months have found me asking more questions of myself than at perhaps any other time in my life, and certainly in the

One of the great ones just died. RIP, Wellington Mara.

I was watching football Sunday and got to thinking, as I sometimes do, about choices I made in life and how things might have been different had I followed one path instead of another. For instance, what if I had thrown myself into the pursuit of football with as much fervor as I did academics? I had plenty of size

The Herald-Sun’s Frank Dascenzo is doing a happy dance over John Bunting’s contract extension at Carolina. Which is fine – I certainly have nothing bad to say about Bunting. But Dascenzo needs to remove his blue-tinted glasses for just a second when talking about UNC’s success relative to the rest of the Big 4, especially Wake.

Design in the Age of Leisure Suits. Yow.

This is kind of an interesting exercise. If you want to play, take the test, then you can click through here to see my results.

First, read Cenk Uygur’s HuffPost entry from yesterday: “If You’re a Christian, Muslim or Jew – You are Wrong.” I’m not telling you to read it because I think your beliefs need assaulting, or even because I think this guy is an especially great writer or thinker. No, the reason I want you to read it is this: What do

The DJ is going to hell for doing it. And I’m probably going to hell for passing it on. You might go to hell just for listening to it. Still, it works better than you’d ever imagine – what kind of guy hears these things? Go here, launch the site, click ‘music,’ and scroll down to ‘Sweet Home Country Grammar’

Senator: Ms. Miers, how do you feel about Roe versus Wade? Harriet Miers: Well, Senator, that depends on how deep the water is. POING!

Joe Gandelman has a great roundup on the Judy Miller situation over at The Moderate Voice. Judy needn’t worry if her career winds up on the scrap heap alongside Jayson Blair’s, though. I’m sure Karl Rove and Scooter Libby will need somebody to ghost their books on prison life. Remember kids, a good typist can always find work….

Few are admitted to the Tower of the Sky.

This is brutal. This is hilarious. And it absolutely needed to be said. [Thx: Norm at the Cleveland Rocks! Desk]