Bonus Drop Means Trading Aspen for Coupons

Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square-foot Brooklyn duplex.... His 10-year- old daughter ( Read more... )

I've blocked the following editor from Wikipedia, as her credentials as a Judge seem to be a trifle "iffy ( Read more... )

Due to snow and de-icing, I didn't get here until closing opening ceremonies were winding down; but I'm here, same as every year past and present and future ('til I die, anyway).

fixed embarassing misstake

Their last recall petition drive, unlike ours, fell a bit short; so they are trying again, inspired by what we're doing here in the Badger State. Rick Snyder is possibly the only one of the Republican Class of 2010 who is more contemptible than Walker, and I wish them the very best. (But they're not grateful enough to give Wisconsin the U.P. back.) ( Read more... )

I've just listened to the late John McCormack's rendition of The Minstrel Boy. Stage Irishry at its most useless!

As we get closer to our deadline, here are some important dates that are coming up in the next several days ( Read more... )

Description: A great deal of uproar (and not a little acrimony) attended the awarding of the 2010 "Best Fanzine" Hugo to the podcast StarShipSofa after a concerted lobbying effort. Accusations ranging from "pandering to illiteracy" to "petrification of the imagination" flew across the barricades.

What, then, is a fanzine? Must it be printed/ ( Read more... )

In reverse order ( Read more... )

I didn't collect any in the emergency room or the pharmacy or the hospital; but I've got antibiotics and painkillers and an anti-inflammatory to cool down the abscess which had crawled from my upper jaw into my sinus cavity, heading for the brain. That's not how I planned to spend most of my 58th birthday; I'm sorely grieved at not having collected ( Read more... )

As of 9:34 p.m. local time, I'm up to exactly 300 signatures on my Recall petitions so far. Several beauty salon and barber shop operators (and customers), a waitress and two store clerks; three of them were new citizens originally from Somalia! I was touched by the encouragement I got from some older folks who had not yet become citizens, but who ( Read more... )