Seth Godin:

If you’re serious about solving your meeting problem, getting things done and saving time, try this for one week. If it doesn’t work, I’ll be happy to give you a full refund.

I’ll add one–provide rotten fruit to throw at people who believe the purpose of a meeting is to read their Power Point novels aloud.

Some suggested talking points for 2012 Presidential hopefuls.

Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?

Who me kidding? Me know me never actually eat cookies. Me only crumble cookies in mouth, but me no swallow. Me can’t swallow. Me no have no esophagus. Me no have no trachea. Me only have black fabric throat. Me not supposed to be able to even talk.

Beautiful, genious, brilliant. The reason the internet exists.

Fearing job losses, US workers forgo benefits.

For their part, many managers are doing little to calm those concerns, human resource consultants say. They tend to view options such as flex-time and telecommuting as retention tools, experts say, and in recessions, fear of unemployment is just as effective.

As a telecommuter, I’m happy to report I haven’t encountered this type of reaction from my management. My sources at some of my former places of employment tell me that this article is pretty accurate in some cases though.

OHilarious!

“How hard can it be to show up on Sunday and toss a few passes?” said Mr. Gibbs. “The fact that some people earn a lot more money than others just demonstrates the savage inequalities inherent in a capitalist system, and explains why the president has taken deliberate action to end it.”

The Liberty Papers examines this in Abandoning the Rule of Law.

I have time finding something I can wear at Banana Republic…I guess it’s because I’m not really comfortable in Banana Republic.

Just be careful messing with the Tongans

Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga — shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ocean.

What ever will Barney Frank do about this?

Fannie Mae plans to pay retention bonuses of as much as $611,000 each to key executives this year as part of a plan to keep hundreds of employees from leaving the government-controlled company.

Rival mortgage finance company Freddie Mac is planning similar awards, but has not yet reported on which executives will benefit.

Bill could affect gardens, farmers markets, CSAs, and more.

Designating the Food Safety Administration (FSA) as sole regulator of food safety rather than the individual states, including granting FSA the power to implement and administer a “national system for regular unannounced inspection of food establishments” under its own terms. (“Food establishment” is so broadly defined in the bill that it can be anything from a meat packing plant to a backyard garden.)

As a “little guy”, I’ll let the rest of you “little guys” in on a secret…

Bigger government (more regulation) is not good for you. It only helps those big enough to  bankroll compliance with the regulations maintain their market share and take yours as well.