The last days of a Christmas tree.
Clearly someone had enought with the New Year’s resolution to lose weight.
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Just heard this Christmas song for the first time today. Very funny. Bare Naked Ladies. “Elf’s Lament” I’m a man of reason, and they say “‘Tis the season to be jolly” But it’s folly when you volley for position Never in existence has there been such a resistance To ideas meant to free us If you could see us, then you’d listen Toiling through the ages, making toys on garnished wages There’s no union We’re only through when we outdo the competition I make toys, but I’ve got aspirations Make some noise Use your imagination Girls and boys, before you wish for what you wish for There’s a list for who’s been Naughty or nice, but consider the price to an elf A full indentured servitude can reflect on one’s attitude But that silly red hat just makes the fat man look outrageous Absurd though it may seem, you know, I’ve heard there’s even been illegal doping And though we’re coping, I just hope it’s not contagious You try to start a movement, and you think you see improvement But when thrown into the moment, we just don’t seem so courageous I make toys, but I’ve got aspirations Make . . . → Read More: The Elf’s Lament with Lyrics Irena Briganti, Senior Vice President Media Relations Fox News Dear Ms. Briganti: On Monday December 12, 2011, Fox News Network, L.L.C., broadcast a chart entitled Unemployment Rate Under President Obama. The source was listed as the 2011 Bureau of Labor Statistics. Numerous writers have pointed out the visual errors in this chart (link) and called into question whether they were genuine mistakes or intentional efforts to mislead. Note where 8.6 is at the end of the chart in relation to earlier numbers I would like to hear your official statement about this chart and its errors; and how it came to be created and broadcast. I would also like to know if there will be any consequences for the people who created and aired this chart. Toward that end, I would direct your attention to an internal memo Fox News Corporation (FNC) management sent to its newsroom staff in November 2009 (emphasis is mine): Effective immediately, there is zero tolerance for on-screen errors. Mistakes by any member of the show team that end up on air may result in immediate disciplinary action against those who played significant roles in the “mistake chain,” and those who supervise them. That may include . . . → Read More: Dear Irena Briganti: Anyone Ever Fired for On-screen Errors at Fox? Turn on captions for more Community lyrics goodness. Mistletoe for eat-y taste good? I love Community. And as with all the programs I love, it is being canceled. Well, we’ll always have Cwistmas. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Email this! I’ve been writing lately about how to deal with the vandals at the #occupy movement in my piece yesterday at Firedoglake, Time to Identify the Occupy Vandals. Today my friend Sara Robinson wrote an excellent piece on dealing with people with over-the-top behavior. I think this will be useful context for thinking about dealing with outliers. By, Sara Robinson, Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future November 4, 2011 I wish I could say that the problems that the Occupy movement is having with infiltrators and agitators are new. But they’re not. In fact, they’re problems that the Old Hippies who survived the 60s and 70s remember acutely, and with considerable pain. As a veteran of those days — with the scars to prove it — watching the OWS organizers struggle with drummers, druggies, sexual harassers, racists, and anarchists brings me back to a few lessons we had to learn the hard way back in the day, always after putting up with way too much over-the-top behavior from people we didn’t think we were allowed to say “no” to. It’s heartening to watch the Occupiers begin to work out solutions to what I can only indelicately call “the asshole problem.” In the . . . → Read More: Occupy’s Asshole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie If it bleeds it leads. - Old TV news saying Say this weekend you turn on the TV and there is a teaser headline. “Occupy Wall Street Protests Turn Violent!“ You tune in to hear the details. An anchorman says something like, “As with the protests in Greece and Egypt, it was only a matter of time before the protests in America turned violent. Today Occupy Wall Street protesters began throwing rocks and bottles at police. ” Now what do you do? Do you drop to your knees, like Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes and scream at the TV? “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!” Do you cynically shake your head and think, “That’s it, the movement has been discredited with violence just like back in the old days. Now the police will have an excuse to shut down all the Occupy protests with this as an excuse.” I’m going to suggest another approach when you hear of reports of violence at an Occupy Wall Street protests. Photo by DavidyDave, Flickr Creative Commons 1) Challenge the assumption that the violent protester(s) are actually Occupy Wall Street protesters. The media . . . → Read More: What To Do When The Media Says a Protester Attacked A Cop
The website occupytheboardroom.org was put together to give us 99% an opportunity to talk with the 1%. It lets you pick a “penpal” you can write to and tell your story. People can pick from dozens of top executives at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley The stories will be sent to the actual email accounts of the executives as well as delivered by mail. You can read some of the funny, heartbreaking and passionate letters already written at the Occupy The Board Room Mail Bag. The site encourages you to write your letter in a constructive manner that helps build the movement for a better world. From the site: “DO NOT intimidate, harass or threaten anyone, no matter what you might think of them. Think funny! The #OWS movement emphasizes peaceful, non-violent protesting.” I think this is a great idea for people who can’t get down to the various OWS sites to participate. I’m always trying to think about what kind of actions are necessary to either change the configuration of someone’s thinking or to change people’s behavior. This website is designed to reach the 1% but there are other . . . → Read More: Tell the 1% what You Think at Occupy The Board Room Apparently the simple act of closing your account at a CitiBank can get you arrested. Watch as this nice woman in the business suit is manhandled and hauled away as she and some friends decided to close their CitiBank accounts at the same time. My friends at New York Communities for Change have been behind a lot of actions like this. I don’t know if they are behind this one, but they have been convincing villages, towns and cities to remove their funds from Chase because of their poor response to the mortgage crisis. I’m surprised CitiBank doesn’t just charge them a 50 dollar, “Closing your account fee.” “Hello this is CitiBank, your business is important to us. If you would like to close your account press one and you will be transferred to our Account Closure specialist Helen Wate. At CitiBank when you talk, we listen and when you want to close your account you can go to Helen Wate.” Personally I keep all my quatloos in a box under my bed. BTW, the quatloo is pegged to the Loonie, the world’s most elegant currency. UPDATE 8:30 PM From the Guardian in the UK Earlier, 24 . . . → Read More: Closing Your CitiBank Account Can Get You Arrested It’s no secret that this old Vulcan is a fan of Elizabeth Warren. This is the video that she should have used to introduce herself and her run for Senate in Massachusetts. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Email this! |
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