“We get the media we spend our attention on.”
—Robert Scoble
“Conoco is undervalued compared with Chevron and Exxon Mobil because some doubt its ability to grow reserves,” said Rodney Mitchell president of the Mitchell Group in Houston, who helps manage about $1 billion including shares of ConocoPhillips. ”
—Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Cool, I got quoted in Bloomberg in a story about Warren Buffet.
P.S. (that’s not really me)
Cool, I got quoted in Bloomberg in a story about Warren Buffet.
P.S. (that’s not really me)
“U.S. beats China 11-0 in baseball exo. China calls for immediate rematch in ping pong. U.S. counter-proposal: beer pong, then kickball.”
—Slate Magazine
The SlateOlympics Twitter feed page is going to be good.
The SlateOlympics Twitter feed page is going to be good.
“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a temporary, one-cent increase in the state sales tax …”
—The Daily Roundup from Capitol Weekly
I love how they (the SF Chronicle) call it a “one-cent increase” which makes it sound like, oh, hey, that’s only one one-hundredth of a dollar! But, really, it’s going up one percent from 7.25% which is a 13.8% increase in the sales tax. Who want’s to pay 13% more in sales tax for the next three years? And who wants to bet it’s not so “temporary”?
Anyway, it looks like it doesn’t have much support. As the Roundup folks say, “So, the governor broke his no new taxes pledge while pissing off both parties. Well played, sir!”
I love how they (the SF Chronicle) call it a “one-cent increase” which makes it sound like, oh, hey, that’s only one one-hundredth of a dollar! But, really, it’s going up one percent from 7.25% which is a 13.8% increase in the sales tax. Who want’s to pay 13% more in sales tax for the next three years? And who wants to bet it’s not so “temporary”?
Anyway, it looks like it doesn’t have much support. As the Roundup folks say, “So, the governor broke his no new taxes pledge while pissing off both parties. Well played, sir!”
“By treating illegal low-wage workers as a de facto criminal class, the government is trying to inflate the menace they pose to a level that justifies its rabid efforts to capture and punish them. That is a fraudulent exercise, and a national disgrace.”
—Raid at Kosher “Jungle”: “A National Disgrace” (The Food Section: Appetizers)
Can you believe “the government”? Treating people engaged in illegal activity like they’re criminals!?
I think the New York Times has already switched over to some kind of bizarro world.
Can you believe “the government”? Treating people engaged in illegal activity like they’re criminals!?
I think the New York Times has already switched over to some kind of bizarro world.
“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
—Thomas Jefferson → onemoretimewithfeeling → sds
Indeed.
Indeed.
“[I find] it deliciously ironic that even California’s earthquakes are considered shallow compared to the rest of the world.”
—Mark Sheppard Facebook status
“Not unlike the Ouroboros, frozen yogurt has become today’s version of smoothies, which were the then-updated version of frozen yogurt, which was the answer to hippie elixirs, which were the answer to the malteds, which were the answer to the original Coca Cola (with gen-u-ine narcotics.)”
—Yogurt + Monkey = Awesome by RunnerGirl on The Sac Rag
“[T]he populist habit of stringing words together for their connotations rather than crafting them for meaning. The tactic makes insinuation sound direct.”
—Matt Raley
This is in the context of an old controversy (Dobson vs. Obama) in an article I just came across by a friend of a friend but it’s an apt description for most of public discourse these days.
This is in the context of an old controversy (Dobson vs. Obama) in an article I just came across by a friend of a friend but it’s an apt description for most of public discourse these days.
“In California, oil is available, it can be drilled, pumped, pipelined to the refinery and brought to the consumer in a way thats cheaper, neater, faster and I dare say “greener” than most anywhere on earth.”
—Varifrank: Can we do it? Yes we can
Or, as Lileks says, “We do have oil. We can get to it soon. It will make a difference.”
Or, as Lileks says, “We do have oil. We can get to it soon. It will make a difference.”
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