Unfunded Private Pensions Bad, Unfunded Public Pensions Good
Sep 04 2006, 19:03 EDT [updated Sep 04 2006, 19:13 EDT]
The New Yorker recently published The Risk Pool which does an OK job of explaining the origins of company pension plans and a good job of explaining their current and inherent problems. The most influential management theorist of the twentieth century
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Small values of cool
Aug 30 2006, 14:33 EDT [updated Aug 30 2006, 14:36 EDT]
We're the #1 Yahoo! search for Hugo Chavez is a Bastard. I only know this because someone did the search (from Orlando, FL - no love lost for Chavez down there). What I actually said in the linked article was Hugo Chavez is a despotic bastard. I'm sure
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 28 2006, 10:04 EDT
Is Saying 'Meow' Harassment? [bobsalive] Aug 25 2006, 11:05 EDT A 78 year-old woman made her neighbors get rid of their cat after compla
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Great Moments in Junk Mail
Aug 25 2006, 19:57 EDT
I just received an invitation to the "Women's Financial Conference," addressed to Mrs John A. ... A boy named Sue I've heard of, but a girl named John? I suppose this gaff isn't too bad considering by deceased Grandfather recently started getting mai
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Great small improvements in Emergency Response
Aug 19 2006, 13:52 EDT [updated Aug 19 2006, 14:02 EDT]
FNC casually mentioned a tiny but revolutionary idea in emergency services coming from Miami, Florida. The regular ambulance service is being supplemented with a small corps of motorcycle EMTs. They carry less equipment than a full ambulance but more th
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I'm not this modern
Aug 19 2006, 12:56 EDT [updated Aug 25 2006, 20:01 EDT]
Despite being an early dot-com'er and currently running a web-based service I pretty much steer clear of technology in my daily life (err, except for the blog thing). I have bought exactly two books from Amazon ever and I don't know how to send a text me
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Novel Start Up Idea Not So Novel
Aug 14 2006, 00:48 EDT
I was in Portland, Maine, for a joint bachelor/bachalorette weekend[1] when a couple surly locals gave me an idea for a startup. Around 11pmp I was smoking outside a sushi place (the Sapporo) where we had gone for some Saki bombs[2] when two shady lookin
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 09 2006, 02:50 EDT
High Speed Photos [jackdied] Aug 09 2006, 02:49 EDT Bullets slicing fruit, water droplets, and time elapses of ballerinas (ok, that last
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Two Clarifying Hypotheticals
Aug 05 2006, 02:36 EDT [updated Aug 05 2006, 02:37 EDT]
A rhetorical question I have used for years to challenge a person's knee-jerk support for Palestinians (works for any Israeli neighbor in general): Israel has had the power to wipe out every man, woman, and child in Palestine at will for the last 30+
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