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Archive for February, 2006
Monday, February 6, 2006 Quick hits, fresh from the oven! By Steve Sebelius Some Monday quick hits, now with extra cheesy flavor!
• Quotable: "It is my aim and it is my hope that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information." — CIA Director Porter Goss, condemning leaks of the warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens by [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Class move By Steve Sebelius This sums it up: At 8:30 a.m. Friday morning, the day after what was surely one of the worst, most stressful days of her life, UNLV President Carol Harter's Cadillac was parked in her usual space on campus. Despite being forced out of her job by Chancellor Jim Rogers, Harter didn't even take a [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 A Republican scandal By Steve Sebelius So the Republicans elected themselves a new majority leader in the person of U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. If that name sounds familiar, it's because we've reported that our own U.S. Rep. Jon Porter was an early supporter of Boehner's. (And no, we don't think the $10,000 that Boehner gave to Porter's re-election had anything [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Drinking the Hatorade By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff know it's wrong to hate. But what other reaction can there be to last week's Republican budget-cutting bill that was aimed at welfare (the single-mother kind, not the billion-dollar Exxon kind) and students seeking financial aid to master math and science, just like President George W. Bush says they [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Rolling Stone not gathering much moss By Ian Mylchreest Enough already! The rumor and speculation from this gossip in the New York Observer has gotten way out of hand. The piece itself suggests that there are very few parcels along the Harmon corridor that aren't already spoken for.
And then last Friday, the Review-Journal cited an unnamed realtor who said the deal was being worked [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 We're floating on a sea of debt By Ian Mylchreest Oil is not the problem, writes LA Times columist Tom Petruno, but debt. Both government and private debt has soared exponentially in the last two or three decades.
The federal deficit has jumped from $5.5 trillion to $8.2 trillion in five years. And we're getting very close to having the baby boomers retire. This week the [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Senior scams bound to rise By Ian Mylchreest With the tidal wave of baby boomers set to retire, the market for investment scams is also booming, reports USA Today. The post-war generation already has over $8 trillion in investable assets and is set to inherit another $7 trillion from their parents.
And that's a recipe for all kinds of get-rich-quick-schemes that are being marketed [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Hollywood makes cultural faux pas By Len Butcher
Read an item in Le Figaro (a Paris-based newspaper) the other day reporting on the film, Memoirs of a Geisha, and it echoed the thoughts I had when the film first appeared recently. It read: Like the [Can-Can] "dancer" that is so dear to the French, the Japanese geisha carries a name that is greatly [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 Even big companies consider open source databases By Ian Mylchreest Sony is just one of the big companies taking a serious look at the maverick open source data base software, reports BusinessWeek. The big names like Oracle and IBM have had a lock on this kind of work for decades because they invented it and the top decision makers knew it was the safe choice [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2006 AIG to pay billion dollar settlement By Ian Mylchreest The insurance giant has been laboring under charges of false accounting, bid-rigging and missed payments to state workers compensation schemes but now the New York Times reports that the company has all but reached a comprehensive settlement with regulators.
Contingent commissions are expected to survive the settlement but require more disclosure. Hmm. How about disclosing that [...]
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