It’s fashionable these days to ridicule the ShamWow guy or scoff at the Snuggie. We roll our eyes at ads for payday lenders and companies offering cash for “broken or unwanted” precious metals. But where is the outcry against law firms that help apparently successful people avoid paying taxes they owe? Are there legitimate circumstances [...]
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Posted 02 March 2009
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I’m not a big-shot business wizard, but this seems insane: Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr. Williams took over as chief executive on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. We took [...]
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Posted 03 December 2008
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Early voting has been underway for a few weeks in some states, which means ACORN has already cracked the safe and is halfway out the window with the 2008 election. Still, let’s watch Barack Obama and John McCain talk about the economy, Vietnam and the Weather Underground. NLCS Game 5 is live on FOX. 8:20 [...]
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Posted 15 October 2008
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In a debate, one person makes a point or asks a question, a second person responds, and then the first person responds to that. If the allotted time hasn’t expired after this back-and-forth, the participants might engage each other on a second point, and then a third. From what I understand of the rules, this [...]
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Posted 07 October 2008
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Google is celebrating its 10th birthday by activating an index of the internet from almost eight years ago. This is the laziest kind of blogging, but I am the laziest kind of blogger: A 2001 search for “John McCain” yielded about 158,000 results, and a search for “Barack Obama” yielded about 670. A search for [...]
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Posted 02 October 2008
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