http://jsp.org Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:22:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The $500,000 Limit Is Not Enough -- good article from Eliot Spitzer on ways to get crazy CEO pay under control. http://jsp.org/2009/03/01/ceo-pay/ Now here's a scary thought: "Nearly all internal briefings in the Pentagon these days are presented as PowerPoint slides. Officials told me three years ago that if an officer wanted to make a case for a war plan or a weapons program or just about anything, he or she had ... http://jsp.org/2009/01/30/pentagon-powerpoint/ Uh, wow. Just saw an ad for Hyundai Assurance, a program that lets you return a newly financed/leased vehicle within a year if you "lose your income." It's a white-label for a program called WalkAway, a name which has an oddly threatening tone to my ear. Anyway, between this and ... http://jsp.org/2009/01/30/walkaway-hyundai/ Tesco: 'Wal-Mart's Worst Nightmare'. Be nice to see somebody put Walmart on the defensive. I like the concept, too (even used the branding as an example in a focus group, as I recall...) http://jsp.org/2009/01/27/tesco-v-walmart/ Imagine a president-elect doing this today: "John Quincy Adams, according to his own letters, placed his hand on a constitutional law volume rather than a Bible to indicate where his fealty lay." --Slate http://jsp.org/2009/01/22/john-quincy/ Letter from Iceland: "Holidaymakers and business travellers venturing 'til Útlanda', as it is called, found their credit cards refused." That was just 2 weeks after we returned from Iceland. Good thing it didn't implode while we were there... (A point of comparison: my credit card statement shows a 23 Sep ... http://jsp.org/2008/11/20/iceland-troubles/ United's Door-to-Door baggage service: save the hassle of bringing your luggage to and from the airport...by spending $149+ per bag to have it FedEx'd the day before? Uh, what? Who thought that would take off? http://jsp.org/2008/11/13/united-door-to-door/ Unbelievable. From Portfolio's "The End of Wall Street" article: "In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $720,000." http://jsp.org/2008/11/12/the-end-of-wall-street/ Good stuff: Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on CA's Prop 8 (video). http://jsp.org/2008/11/11/olbermann-on-8/ Please get out there and vote! I'd love to see record turnout numbers. Things I'd also like to see, in order of importance: A Barack Obama win (of course) A Prop 8 (CA) loss An Al Franken (MN-Sen) win A Michelle "anti-American" Bachmann (MN-6) loss Tonight, I'll either be on the fringes of Barack's Grant Park ... http://jsp.org/2008/11/04/my-fellow-americans/