Because 15% is 15%. It’s only two bucks, and will ensure that you get slow service wherever you use it.
Suggestion…make a key chain version. Or an iPhone App.
Category: Reading (Page 20 of 35)
Trace Sharp has gone to work for Mike McWherter’s campaign.
Whether you agree with his positions on the issues or not, it’s cool that at least one candidate sees the value in putting a well known and internet savvy pundit to work to help their campaign.
My sources are telling me that Mabel’s campaign is refusing comment and focusing on damage control.
Not the Security and Exchange Commission–I’ll straighten them out next week. I’m talking about the Southeastern Conference.
Now, these are just the simple-minded observations from someone with absolutely no formal training in marketing:
- If someone is excited about your product and wants to talk about it, you should be happy.
- If someone is excited about your product and wants to talk about it, you should encourage them.
- No matter who you are, you have bigger PR problems than someone who is excited about your product telling the world about it.
Michael Silence has been diligent in covering their decision to threaten bloggers, Tweeple, people with phones, and YouTubers, and you can get a ton of information on this from him and others.
Here’s a pretty funny response to the old argument that home school kids don’t get socialization.
If you want to get a bit old-school take him into the bathroom once in a while and threaten to smack him upside the head unless he gives you his lunch money.
Follow the link to read the whole thing…it’s hilarious.
And here’s something to think about seriously: I went to public school. If I’m any indication of who they’ll be socializing with, is that what you want for you child’s education?
The Missus and I were talking about the comments President Obama made the other day about Fedex/UPS/USPS and competition. Lots of people are laughing about it, but here’s someone breaking it down to levels beyond scientific.
It’s fascinating how it all comes down to the post office, again and again, in the history of public policy. And so it is in our time, with Obama’s admission/gaffe/slip concerning the post office and its analogy to what he wants to do with healthcare.
A long read, but worth it.
I have a few friends that are expecting babies soon. Well, their wives are…my friends just look like they are expecting babies soon.
I was reminded of this really cool gift a friend gave me. This book basically gives you an idea about what goes on in the human brain as it develops and what to expect behavior-wise based on what’s going on physiologically.
Oh wait…first let me tell you how you should parent your kids. It basically goes like this…
You should parent your kids the way you see fit–don’t pay attention to unsolicited advice from other people.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, if you are like me and didn’t don’t know anything about babies, you may find this book interesting. Good gift for expecting parents too, especially if they lean more towards an AP philosophy.
Kleinheider says Lawler is semi-serious about a run according to the Memphis Flyer.
Any real rasslin’ fan knows that Jerry Lawler isn’t serious about anything until the strap comes down.
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It’s coming once again from that mouthpiece for the Republican Party, Fox News CNN Money–5 key freedoms you LOSE under Obama’s health care:
- Freedom to choose what’s in your plan
- Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
- Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
- Freedom to keep your existing plan
- Freedom to choose your doctors
If that’s too much reading for you, George Michael has a little sumpin’ to say about it. Plus there are pretty girls.
When I started reading this, I was sure I’d fall into one of the seven categories presented–click over for the lengthy descriptions. Turns out I’ve been most of them at one time or another.
- People Who Are Too Big for Their Britches
- Snobs Who Look down Their Noses at Everyone
- Cold Fish
- Anyone Who Talks the Talk but Can’t Walk the Walk
- People Who Beat around the Bush
- Morons Talking Out Of The Wrong End
- Long-Winded Gasbags
I could add a few more to that list, but I can’t risk being long-winded to do so.
Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler.
The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times…
You really do see it every day in advertising–a catchy phrase is repeated often and all of a sudden it is part of the vernacular. It becomes an accepted truth of the society.
I certainly hope no politician ever tries to change our political system into one driven by empty slogans.
What will be the end result of resolutions in the various states supporting the 10th Amendment?
While seven states – Tennessee, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Alaska and Louisiana – have had both houses of their legislatures pass similar decrees, Alaska Gov. Palin and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen are currently the only governors to have signed their states’ sovereignty resolutions.
Sarah Palin has now joined Phil Bredesen as one of the most polarizing political figures in the Union </sarcasm>
Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn’t.
This is just contrarian enought that I can agree with every single word.
Now they’re concerned over the 17th amendment possibility of unfunded health care mandates.
If only someone had thought of a way for the States to have a direct representation in the federal government…now that would have been smart.
Where else are you going to get headlines like this in the newspaper?
Scuffle with son over sandwich meat burns shotgun-packing meth maker
A scuffle over your son with sandwich meat should stand for a head line on its own, but a shotgun-packing meth maker is icing on the cake.
Stay classy East Tennessee. Stay classy.
Jigga’s problems have been documented here before, but his latest beef with The Game is seemingly unilateral. It’s the genesis of a very interesting post at ForeignPolicy.com:
The changes in Jay-Z’s approach over the years suggest that he recognizes the realist and liberal logic… but is sorely tempted by the neo-conservative impulse. Back when he was younger, Jay-Z was a merciless, ruthless killer in the “beefs” which define hip hop politics. He never would have gotten to the top without that. But since then he’s changed his style and has instead largely chosen to stand above the fray. As Jay-Z got older and more powerful, the marginal benefits of such battles declined and the costs increased even as the number of would-be rivals escalated. Just as the U.S. attracts resentment and rhetorical anti-Americanism simply by virtue of being on top, so did Jay-Z attract a disproportionate number of attackers.
See, you can learn something from rap.