"Researcher" proves that we'd be $35,000,000,000,000 richer if we didn't have abortions

The logic: if aborted babies all grew up the US population would be 356,000,000 instead of 305,000,000... and this would create tons of extra productivity.  Of course "productivity" as defined by economists is largely a measure of how low your wages are... but ( Read more... )

There's a guy in my office (there's always one) who is on top of all the market trends and knows all about the investment options.  He says two things that alarm me:

1. The market has plenty of down still left in it
    
2. Principal Financial, the company that my employer has its 401(k)s in, is actively dumping their bad assets onto small investors like me ( Read more... )

Stephen Colbert is a False "Bob".


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For my next trick, I will saw Sarah Palin's accent in half.

Shay Black proves that Barack is Irish

Google Maps now has a thing to show you were the new coast would be for any given rise in sea level.  I went and put in the maximum possible rise if all of Antarctica melted (200 feet) and it shows us losing:

• all of Delaware and half of Maryland
• about half of the Carolinas
  
• and in general, a stripe of about that same depth up and down the whole east ( Read more... )

George Soros (sometimes called "George Sauron" by conservatives) says Secretary Paulson is directly at fault for triggering the current crisis.

He also makes it clear that we have to minimize foreclosures, or housing prices will drop so far that they overshoot the necessary correction, thereby making the troubles of financial institutions even

Countries of the world ranked by freedom of the pressWorst country in the world: Eritrea, edging out North Korea.  Best: Iceland.  Surprise top ten finishes: Estonia and Slovakia ( Read more... )

The office has been invaded by houseflies!

Holy crap -- Leica just launched a new DSLR format using a 30 x 45 mm sensor.

Something like this could be a Hasselblad killer if it weren't priced like a Leica.  I wonder if we'll see some of the other Four Thirds partners going into this market too...