Daily Archives: October 28, 2011

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Project Runway Season 9: This Is The End

Beautiful friends, this is the end of season 9 of Project Runway on the Lifetime Ladyparts Network, brought to you by toilet paper, cranberry juice, lady shavers, yogurt, Meredith Baxter Birney, deodorant sprays, and the makers of fine Sport Utility Vehicles For The Soccer Mom In You. Curious to know how everything done shakeded out? Well come on in, and of course, as always there are spoilers inside. Continue reading

The Human Fund

Earlier today, Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and one of Facebook’s earliest partners, as well as a partner in Spotify, tweeted “You guys are really attacking me for being the 1%? I was broke and couch surfing just a few years ago. […] I have a whole new set of problems to deal with now: security, extortion attempts, kidnapping threats, death threats, etc. Life better b4?”

Mr. Parker is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.1 billion. That got me thinking: why can’t we help relieve this nation’s billionaires of the terrible burden of their wealth, while helping ordinary Americans make their dreams come true? Continue reading