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Classic post from Brad at Consumption Rules:
Profits I can understand. Cheap profits I cannot. Profits are the normal mark-up on products or services that add value.
Cheap profits are money that a business takes in without adding any extra value. They leave a bad taste in everyone’s mouth except for the owner of the company who […]

Tom Friedman says a lot of what I’ve had kicking around in my head over the past year.
I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.
What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made […]

At the end of last year’s college football season I posted Notre Dame: Were they ever that good? wondering out loud about Notre Dame and lamenting the sad state of football at South Bend.
N. Chung, a frequent commenter on the blog, said the following:
I just finished Lou Holtz’s bio, and he even complained that media […]

confusing, i know. suggested by miguelito

first there was time magazine.
then anderson cooper.
then columbia university.
now, 60 minutes (actually his 60 minutes interview came before his visit to new york city and columbia university, but i tivo’d the news show and just got around to watching it today).
highlights from the 60 minutes interview:
(1) aqua velvet head has to […]

iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad, at columbia university today, responded as follows to a comment about iran’s well-documented practice of executing homosexuals:

In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we […]

this article is reprinted with permission of FLAME
It’s now almost three years [NOTE: this article is being reprinted and references to current events are not timely - admin] since that handshake on the White House lawn between the late Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the PLO. The world does little remember that […]

this would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

This article is reprinted with permission from factsandlogic.org
There is persistent pressure on Israel to bring “sacrifices for peace”. It is understood that these “sacrifices” mean primarily that Israel should allow its dismemberment, in order to bring peace to the region.
What are the facts?

15 paragraphs in this news story are real. one is satire. try to pick it out.

Phoenix police Officer Nick Erfle survived two bouts of cancer to put back on his uniform and patrol the city’s streets.
On Tuesday, a jaywalker shot him in the face and killed him.
“He’s a hard charger. Even though he […]

are at jumpcut.com.
read about the romney campaign’s contest here.

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Stop drinking bottled water. Now.
So what is the real cost of bottled water?
Most of the price of a bottle of water goes for its bottling, packaging, shipping, marketing, retailing and profit. Transporting bottled water by boat, truck and train involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels. More than 5 trillion gallons of bottled water […]

 Hat tip: Alejandro Rozitchner.

Jesse Jackson criticizes Obama for “acting like he’s white”…
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles’ arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La.
What better way to assuage normal middle-America that you are not beholden to […]