Month: September 2011

…then ignorance is weakness.

Here is an interesting observation from the people of Townhall: Rick Perry might not be very smart, at all, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he will be a bad president. In fact, it probably means that he is the next Reagan, except BETTER! After all, George Washington didn’t go to college, and he invented the Constitution, so really, “The Dumber the Better,” should be America’s official slogan.

via Townhall Proves Dumb Presidents Make America Great.

• Sign of age: when you can't recall the name of the theater two names back. And realizing you've known it that long. #
• Nibbling on Twizzlers and thinking of the old days of WWWAC… #

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• Nibbling on Twizzlers and thinking of the old days of WWWAC… #

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• Sign of age: when you can't recall the name of the theater two names back. And realizing you've known it that long. #

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• @AlexHonigsberg wrong metric. I was looking for % committed by. Also: 10% of gen pop men accused of molestation? Sounds implausible. in reply to AlexHonigsberg #
• I am convinced the British Empire grew so hard and wide so that the Brits could eat something other than mushy peas. #

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• @AlexHonigsberg wrong metric. I was looking for % committed by. Also: 10% of gen pop men accused of molestation? Sounds implausible. in reply to AlexHonigsberg #
• I am convinced the British Empire grew so hard and wide so that the Brits could eat something other than mushy peas. #

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Shares of eBay are trading essentially where they were five years ago. The world has passed eBay by, and the next five years aren’t likely to be much better.

via Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again – DailyFinance.

Wonder if they ever thought about the simple auction fixes they could make…

Meet Michael Stahl, otherwise known as “Pastor Mike.” Stahl lives in Miramar, Florida, and leads an online church called Living Water Church, which we think is a fancy way of saying he hangs out a lot in a Christian-themed chat room. Stahl has proposed the creation of a national registry for atheists, much like the ones in existence for sex offenders.

via Florida Pastor Doesn’t Get Why Atheists Aren’t Registered Like Sex Offenders — Daily Intel.

Related articles

• A National Registry of Atheists? Y’know – Like Sex Offenders. (crossexaminedblog.com)
• Florida Pastor Wants To Register Atheists, Just Like Sex Offenders (aquantumofknowledge.wordpress.com)
• Pastor Mike Stahl’s ‘National Atheist Registry’ Is Nothing New (patheos.com)

Now Hershey does this:

The America that the Hershey’s workers have seen is surely not the one the J-1 visa was created to promote. But perhaps it is the America we have become. Hershey’s business strategy is a microcosm of the downsizing and subcontracting that so many American companies have pursued during the past few decades in search of ever cheaper labor.

The J-1 visa… has become the country’s largest guest worker program. Its “summer work travel” component recruits well over 100,000 international students a year to do menial jobs at dairy farms, resorts and factories — a privilege for which the Hershey’s students shelled out between $3,000 and $6,000. They received $8 an hour, but after fees and deductions, including overpriced rent for crowded housing, they netted between $1 and $3.50 an hour. Hershey’s once had its own unionized workers packing its candy bars, starting at $18 to $30 an hour. Now the company outsources distribution to a non-union company that hires most of its workers from the J-1 program.

via America’s Sweatshop Diplomacy – NYTimes.com.

What a way to win hearts and minds.

A team of astronomers dotted across the globe have discovered an unusual planet circling an old, dead star about 4,000 light years away that appears to be a gigantic, solid diamond.

via It’s A Bird! It’s A Planet! It’s A … Gigantic Diamond! | TPM Idea Lab.

See  2061: Odyssey Three.