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When we say Texas is "business-friendly", what we ACTUALLY mean is, "our legislature will happily favor some businesses, if they bribe us."
money.cnn.com

Today, Tesla can't sell cars in Texas.

I call it "This is what God really thinks of you"
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com

the cosmic finger of friendship.

Are you telling me there are dozens of phallus tracks littering the landscape of Mars? You can't take humans anywhere…
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com

Actually, it's standard operating procedure for making a turn on Mars.

Talk about burying the lede...

This is why we should be pushing carbon taxes instead of cap and trade credits.
grist.org

Trucost’s third big finding is the coup de grace. Of the top 20 region-sectors ranked by environmental impacts, none would be profitable if environmental costs were fully integrated. Ponder that for a moment. None of the world’s top industrial sectors would be profitable if they were paying their full freight. None!

Uh, yeah, chief... let's do that. Let's call the president at WELLESLEY and tell her one of your top students is standing up to an administration cramming abstinence-only education down the throats of high school students and suppressing birth control information. Let's see how that works out for whom.
thinkprogress.org

“How would you feel if I called your college and told them what bad character you have and what a backstabber you are?”

You want to know how we end up with "gubment" regulating private enterprise? This is how. Business in general cannot be trusted to act in an ethical manner when the choice is between the bottom line and fair treatment of employees when there is a surplus of labor in a particular market. 
www.nytimes.com

“The notion of the traditional entry-level job is disappearing,” said Ross Perlin, 29, the author of “Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy.” Internships have replaced them, he said, “but also fellowships and nebulous titles that sound prestigious and pay a stipend, which means you’re only coming out with $15,000 a year.”

Hey, looks like the odds have improved from a 1:10 chance of success to 1:4! 

in all seriousness, my takeaway from this article is that that bastion of the MBA set, the Harvard Business Review, has finally heard of this thing called Lean and thinks its a Big Deal™.

Tell me why you want an MBA again?
hbr.org

As new research by Harvard Business School’s Shikhar Ghosh shows, 75% of all start-ups fail.

Redistribution of wealth has been an ongoing fact for generations (centuries, really—as long as humans have traded coin for goods). Its only when we try to redistribute it from the wealthy to the middle- and lower-income families that it causes a stir.
nickchirls.com

What I discovered, quite starkly, is that the part of Wall Street that I worked in was simply transferring wealth from the less sophisticated investors, often teachers’ pension funds and factory workers’ retirement accounts, to the more sophisticated investors that call themselves proprietary trading desks and hedge funds.

This makes me sad, but yeah, kind of true.
www.codinghorror.com

Ruby isn't cool any more.

Hipsters, take note: This is why we can't have nice things. 
www.texasmonthly.com

“We rode our bikes here!” he spat. “We’re from the neighborhood.”

You mean Bazaarvoice?
blog.codeable.io

Unfortunately, we didn’t get enough votes to pursue our idea so we joined another group, where the idea was similar to amazon reviews, with an api so it could be applied to other e-commerce sites (you’re free to steal it, i still think it’s a great one)

I'm not sure LA has ever really set a GOOD example for the rest of the country. Can't say I'm surprised at all by this move.
www.wwltv.com

I think as a state we're just setting really a bad example to the rest of the country.

Ok, maybe shutting down the factory wasn't such a bad idea after all...
www.suntimes.com

Waheed said he rarely ate the cakes he stacked. “Because I know what’s in them,” he said.

*headdesk* He's not wrong about the banks, but come on, Biden...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

"(Romney) is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street," Biden said at a campaign event in Danville, Virginia. "He is going to put y'all back in chains."

This is the crux of the issue. Both sides of this debate are creating a lot of straw men and avoiding the real issue which is that the OOD camp is making the same mistakes the enterprise java world did, and the Framework camp has sprung to the other end of the continuum.
gmoeck.github.com

My point in the "principled architect" refusing to change is code was not that it was more loc, but in that it was completely failing at modeling the domain.

This is a pretty weak argument IMHO. There are a lot of other good reasons tech needs women. Implying that only women can truly understand the content women generate at a big data level is insulting to pretty much everyone.
www.ncwit.org

Women are majority or near-majority users of many of the social data "firehoses" (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.), and big data has much to gain from having women behind the scenes to parse, massage, store, tag, categorize, and sell the 50+ percent of data that comes from women users.

That's because its a ridiculous story. Its ridiculous for Christians to think that Jesus was actually born on December 25—the date was appropriated by the early church from pagan winter celebrations.
religion.blogs.cnn.com

He says Freke can’t offer any proof that an ancient Osiris figure was born on December 25, was crucified and rose again.

... and if there were no corroborating evidence, they might be right to do so.
religion.blogs.cnn.com

If we’re talking about Obama in the future, there are people who might not only say he wasn’t American, but he didn’t even exist.

Then maybe Atlas should subsidize the classes to ensure its supply. F'ing economics, man.
www.nytimes.com

Now Atlas is struggling to find eligible drivers.

...or, you could raise wages to something that actually is competitive, shave your profits a bit, and stay in business. But then I guess that sharing the wealth a bit is too much to swallow?
money.cnn.com

We could raise wages to $100 an hour, fill the positions and then go out of business, taking all our jobs with us.

This is anything but a competitive wage.
money.cnn.com

And we offer a competitive wage: $8.50 to $9.50 an hour. The $8.50 is just the starting wage. After 90 days we increase it to $9.50 to $10 an hour.

True words.
thebrowser.com

Massive inequality is incompatible with robust democracy.

No kidding. If you require a test, people will cheat. If you use metrics to determine productivity, they will game the system. Trust people to be grownups.
schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com

An investigative report published in Sunday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution found indications of standardized test cheating in school systems throughout the U.S.

Were I in that audience, I'd really have to make an effort to ask Santorum whether he listens to the garbage that comes out of his mouth, or just lets it flow unchecked.
thinkprogress.org

For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.

Yes. I'm pissed.
blogs.computerworld.com

Here's the thing: In baking its proprietary TouchWiz skin into the software, Samsung has watered down the Ice Cream Sandwich experience and delivered a UI that's barely different from what you have now.