Archive for July 31st, 2006

• Getting The MBA (Off My Chest)

  I must apologize to my earnest readers for a bit of confusion that I had mistakenly implied in a recent post, Adventures of a War President (War Means Jobs, Baby!). In the closing, I joked about “an MBA colleague.” This is what lead to the mass confusion and hysteria, and I apologize if it had [...]

• Are you high knowledge?

  The Pew Research Center has just conducted a survey to find what viewers/listeners watch/listen what programs. It turns out Bill O’Reilly’s viewers are some of the smartest, and Jon Stewart’s Daily Show viewers are not far behind. Pew defined this ranking, however, on the number of people with “high knowledge.” What is a person with [...]

• Adventures of a War President (War Means Jobs, Baby!)

  When Bush insisted to Tim Russert, “I’m a war president,” in a February 2004 interview on Meet the Press, who knew that Bush was not only discussing his war in Iraq (and the pulling of troops in Afghanistan in order to prosecute the unnecessary war in Iraq) and his administration’s desire to follow Iraq with [...]

• Trading Deadline

  Today is the Major League Baseball trading deadline, which addresses the question, for all intents and purposes, how the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox shore up their rosters for the stretch run by plucking overpaid players from underachieving teams in the last year of their contract. End result: Boston vs. New York in [...]