Every time I hear McCain talk about how he wants to cut “everyone’s” taxes (although, like a good Republican, a big majority of his cuts go to the very wealthy), I keep imagining him as Matthew Lesko, running a cheesy informercial about “Free Money!!!!!!” and how if you vote for him you can “get money [...]
I already went into detail about how H1B visas are being used to game the employment market of high tech jobs back on this post. But Ricky send me a link that is pretty much A+ #1 solid proof that the market is indeed being artificially gamed and that companies are defrauding American job seekers [...]
A very interest article by way of Ars Technica:
Senators: Companies with “mass layoffs” shouldn’t hire more foreign workers
US companies that lay off large numbers of workers shouldn’t be allowed to hire workers with H1B visas if they’re planning a large layoff that will reduce their total number of US workers, according to two senators. [...]
I’m eventually going to post something about this on CWAMB. A pretty cool article about the statistical truth behind baseball’s hitting slump.
So not only is she brilliant, an astronomy student and getting a grant from NASA to study methods to get a spacecraft to Mars safely behind the ’shield’ of a large asteroid, but she’s [...]
Two related links: Ahhhhh the Bush Economy. To paraphrase Mel Brooks “It’s good to be the CEO.”
The latest champion for those fed up with the direction our country has taken under arch-conservative George W. Bush: Lee Iacocca?
“You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone [...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Thanks to Shakespeare’s Sister I now have a total man-crush on Richard Branson. In a totally heterosexual kind of way, of course. heh
Instead of having Hummer-like vehicles simply tug jetliners away from the gate, Branson wants to tug them all the way to a holding area at the end of the runway.
It’s an initiative that’s [...]
Friday, November 17, 2006
Economist Milton Friedman has passed away. In honor of his strong support for laissez faire economics, I say we leave his body where it is and let the market bury it.
As much as I loved the book Freakonomics, the statement on their blog of “so many of his ideas that were thought to be crazy [...]
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