Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired yesterday afternoon by Yahoo’s board. Apparently not wanting to deal with her in person, they did it by telephone. They did not think to have her company email privileges disabled first. It is a credit to Ms Bartz that her retaliation was relatively- relatively– low key. She immediately sent an email to the mailing list for all Yahoo staff worldwide, as follows after the jump: Continue reading
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According to ABC News, 24-year-old Kyle Willis died this past week due to an untreated tooth infection. Two weeks ago, dentist told Willis that a painful wisdom tooth needed to be extracted. Unable to afford the extraction without employment or insurance, Willis passed on the procedure. After visiting the ER, Willis was prescribed antibiotics and pain medications but was unable to afford both. He took the pain medications, but the infection soon spread to his brain and he died last Wednesday.
Willis’ case echoes the circumstances surrounding the death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver in 2007 from a tooth infection after his mother was unable to secure affordable dental care for him in time.
According to NBC affiliate WLWT, Willis leaves behind a six-year-old daughter.
Oh, what to do when you need extra cash and your job won’t give you any overtime? The Chicago Tribune and The Daily Herald report that a suburban Chicago man thought of a get-rich-quick scheme that might never have occurred to you and me, dear reader.
Forty-three year old James F. Jackson of Glen Ellyn, Illinois had the brilliant idea of stealing rare and expensive books from area libraries, and then selling them on the Internet. He was arrested Monday morning after a four-month long investigation into reports from area libraries that reference books had gone missing. Lisle Police Commander Ron Wilke said: “He [Jackson] was looking for expensive books that would cost a library a lot of money.” Continue reading
A planet made entirely of diamond, prosaically known as PSR J1719-1438, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers led by Professor Matthew Bailes at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, and including researchers from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA. The discovery was initially made using the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia; a radio telescope which will be well known to those who’ve seen the movie The Dish as a vital part of the network that received signals from the Apollo 11 mission, covering most of the moonwalk. The discovery was subsequently confirmed using telescopes in Hawaii and the UK. Continue reading
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Newsrooms are not constantly bubbling cauldrons of activity, contrary to what you may have seen in the movies and TV. Most of the time, us news types are sitting around bitching about how nothing is going on.
Then the alarms start going off. Continue reading
Don’t panic, folks. That shaking you felt that rattled your desk while you were trying to comment on your friend’s Facebook status? That was just a 5.9 earthquake in Virgina that rippled across the east coast. I’m sure we’ll all be fine, so just go back to “work” now.
So. What did you do to survive the Earthquake of 2011?
In a disgusting display, the Republican party is now trying to block a tax cut that NObama is championing.
Quick explanation: To pay for Social Security benefits, employers and employees have always paid into the system via a payroll tax. This payroll tax has been 6.2% paid by the employer and 6.2% of salary paid by the employee. This totals to 12.4% of everyone’s salary being paid into the social security system. Social Security payroll taxes are basically unavoidable, and they only apply up to the first $106,800 of a worker’s wages. Last year Obama cut this tax on the worker’s side of things, saving people up to $2,136 a year, or at the very most a solid 2% of their income. Continue reading
Hey, remember that anti-masturbation, pro-coven-witch Delaware Tea Party Candidate Christine O’Donnell? She ran for office and lost mostly because no one could figure out what she was talking about, and well, the whole coven witch thing? Basically she was some sort of Sarah Palin clone without the high-profile, but with all the requisite bubble-brained word mashing. Yeah well, she’s written a book about who knows…perhaps how to tend to a vegetable garden now that you’re a failed politician! She attempted to sit for an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan until he started asking questions in line with the book’s contents and then she imploded into a thousand stupid pieces.
Here’s what happened. Continue reading
The Whole Foods Mega Buckwheat and Soy Bean grocery chain has decided that the cons outweigh the pros of being a socially conscious entity by basically becoming the poster child for retreating political correctness. How, you say?
By deciding that the big, bad conservative blog community should lead their marketing endeavors.