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Office Antics
[Some of these are so damn tempting...]
Office Antics...
Office work dull?...None of your colleagues appreciate your humour?
Amuse yourself. Points are awarded on a degree of difficulty basis. You can award yourself extra points for creative execution.
ONE-POINT GAGS
Run one lap around the office at top speed
Groan out loud in the bathroom ( Read more... ) -
The right to get freaky
This is strange, disturbing, and darkly amusing.
Disturbing the Peace: On the inalienable right to "excessively noisy sex"
"This case sheds harsh light not only on the Victorian-style petty prudishness of Britain’s rulers, who seriously believe they can make sexually expressive women timid again by dragging them to court, but on the tyranny of anti- ( Read more... ) -
The healthcare "system"???
Pulled from Cafe Hayek:
Men of System Systematically Misunderstand Spontaneous Orders
Don Boudreaux
Division of Labour's Frank Stephenson makes a great point:
We hear lots of chatter about reforming the health care system, but I think using the word system plays into the hands of statists and planners (men of the system in the words of the great one ( Read more... ) -
Bits and pieces on the Healthcare debacle
John Stossel, More Health Insurance is Not the Answer
Obama and his Senate allies would limit competition by requiring insurers to cover everyone for the same "fair" price. No "cherry picking," the president says. No charging healthy people less.
They call this "community rating," and it sounds fair. No more cruel "discrimination" against people who ( Read more... ) -
Economics and Crisis - my own summary
For those who are interested, a quick and impartial primer on how the Government tries to "manage" the economy, followed by my own satirical analysis of its effects:
Economics and Crisis
The Federal Government utilizes two methods in its attempts to manage the economy. The first is “fiscal policy,” in which Congress itself (often guided by the ( Read more... ) -
'Bout as reasonable as anything else the State is doing
Disillusioned FBI Launches Nationwide Hunt For Some Kind Of Truth
"The existential hunt, underway across all 50 states, is the largest initiative launched by the FBI to date. So far, nearly 8,000 federal agents have been mobilized to search for the intangible concept, with several units being deployed to watch the setting sun, walk barefoot through ( Read more... ) -
I want a new Bubble
Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In
"WASHINGTON-A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory economic bubble in which to invest.
...According to investment experts, now ( Read more... ) -
Reason 1001 not to move to New Jersey
New Jersey red light cameras focus on right-turn tickets, even though state and federal data show this rarely causes accidents.
Linked from Fark.com:
"Politicians: Ticket cameras will stop slaughter of pedestrians by drivers making rolling right turns on red.
Study: No pedestrians have been killed that way.
Politicians: Stop confusing us with facts."
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Not News
When Does Coordination Require Centralization?
The subtitle says it all:
Contrary to expectations, decentralization might be the best strategy when the need for coordination among divisions is paramount
That's right. Three "experts" from the top business school in the country have spent (probably copious amounts of) time and money to demonstrate the ( Read more... )