DeathForecast.comI have 21 more years!
2006 Commencement Address: "And when you enter the workforce, you will find competition from those crossing our all-too-poorest borders. Now I know you’re all going to say, “Stephen, Stephen, immigrants built America.” Yes, but here’s the thing—it’s built now. "
Apple makes computers and iPods. To make the computers valuable and worth people's money, they make software. To help sell iPods, Apple sells music.Pearson does a lot of things, so many things, it might make your head spin. Broadly, they're about making you smarter. (I should propose as a new slogan: "We can't make you smart, but we can make you smarter."). Pearson has three divisions:
- The Penguin book group, home of the famed Penguin classics,
- The Financial Times, which attempts to explain global capitalism to you, and, our new friend,
- Pearson Education. You're a bright person, I'll let you guess what Pearson Education is about.
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The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"Talking Points Memo:
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We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not deliberately hiding anything when we seek out private places for reflection or conversation. We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a basic human need.
"...this dogmatic post-9/11 insistence on acting as if human history began suddenly in 1997 or something. The United States was able to face down such threats as the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany without indefinite detentions, widespread use of torture as an interrogative technique, or all-pervasive surveillance. But a smallish group of terrorists who can't even surface publicly abroad for fear they'll be swiftly killed by the mightiest military on earth? Time to break out the document shredder and do away with that pesky constitution."
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After explaining how Lou Dobbs was going to be stationed at the Mexican border, this article ends with:
Elsewhere, media mogul Rupert Murdock threw his support to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), as was first reported in the Book of Revelation.
Got some time on your hands? Google work/life balance. (ok, so I saved you a step, thereby improving the ratio - see how easy this is?)You didn't ask, but my theory is, there is no work/life balance. It's only life. You get one. Enjoy all of it or make peace with what you can't change or move on.Don't worry, this is for me, not you. I have no insight into what you need. :-)
An Invonvenient Truth is coming to a theater near you.And, who would have thunk it, Al Gore is funny. (Actually, his concession speech was pretty funny. "I called Governor Bush to congratulate him and promised I wouldn't be calling back...")We would be so much better off if he'd been able to take office after winning the popular vote...(All of this because of this link.)