– alan greenspan, in his mea culpa to congress
note to alan: organizations don’t have self-interest, people do.
self-interested people can, will and usually do act against the long-term interests of the organizations they’re a part of.
– alan greenspan, in his mea culpa to congress
note to alan: organizations don’t have self-interest, people do.
self-interested people can, will and usually do act against the long-term interests of the organizations they’re a part of.
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13611
great opinion piece on poynter.org re: the need for journalistic skepticism in the fear-fueled rush to, once again, give the executive branch a very big blank check.
if you’re a little nerdy, looking for a small time-waster and are already on facebook, may i humbly suggest dungeons & dragons tiny adventures?
it’s basically d&d lite - extremely lite, like wafer-thin lite. the classes are all pretty much interchangeable. the computer even rolls the dice for you.
but there’s a nice bit of suspense as you wait to see how your character will do, and the writing is surprisingly clever. plus, you’ve got to do something to fill up all that time you used to spend playing scrabulous, right?
if you do join, please look for me in your ‘friends’ list. it’s a single-player game, but if you have friends online they can give you a bit of healing or a little boost to your stats. and 1st level cleric neil b. zod* needs all the help he can get.
(note: this is not one of those lame facebook pyramid schemes where the only way to win the game is to trick all your friends into playing too.)
*the b stands for “before”
teens who broke into robert frost’s former home and trashed it are sentenced to a poetry-appreciation class.
thanks nbc.com for uploading the dunder mifflin org chart (as well as the emergency version)
i’m not sold on jimmy fallon taking over for conan…but barry gibb could work.