Failing Grade
But it’s probably a mistake to expect the current housing market to behave like the stock market of the late 1990s. “There is no bubble!” says Raphael Bostic, professor at USC’s School of Policy,...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Low Stakes
Finally a source for the idea that academic politics are so cruel/brutal/intense/vicious because the stakes are so low: Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” This observation is routinely...
How Would Jesus Season?
Shearer’s boyfriend, Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, was charged with capital murder after police said they found her body, an ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop, and a hunk of flesh with a...
Shell Game
Microsoft gets about 75 percent of its 40 billion dollars in revenue from licensing fees. A few years ago, it set up an Irish subsidiary called Round Island One Ltd. to own its 16...
You’re Doing It Wrong
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity … The brawl apparently began when Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean...
Priorities
Politically motivated assassination of the youngest elected female head of government, first female leader of a Muslim country (and only Muslim nuclear State): 1,900 articles. Tiger-Racoon Alliance to Eliminate Humanity: 3,200 articles.
Moron Mystery Tax
“Mystery” gift cards on eBay. People bid up to several hundred dollars for little pieces of plastic that may contain up to hundreds of dollars of stored value, but probably don’t.