Some things have to be seen and head to be believed. [Via Huffington Post .] I’m writing something longer that will incorporate this, but I was so blown away that I wanted to go ahead and post it now. I’ll connect it up to some other things in a bit. Marrying other species? Wait a minute. Other species ? Continue reading “”We Keep Marrying Other Species”"…

Reading & replying to a wide world of messages in my various Inboxes today, I happened across the following information, which I received from the Student Loan Justice group on Facebook: Our New York State Lead…discovered, and confirmed very recently that a company contracted by the Department of Education to provide staffing for its Ombudsman office, Vangent (formerly NCO Pearsons), is also functioning as a student loan debt collector.

For Release : June 24, 2009 Contact : David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 or e-mail dalmasi@nationalcenter.org Citing Conflicts of Interest, Free Enterprise Project Calls on GE CEO Jeff Immelt and La Opinion CEO Monica C. Lozano to Resign from President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board The Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research is today calling on General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and Monica C. Lozano, Publisher & CEO of La Opinion, to resign from President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

A Tale of Two Houses: Congress Debates the Peace CorpsHuffington PostThat would mean no bold new Peace Corps with the money to expand and reform. Stearns is the kind of Republican who every time he speaks digs a deeper and …

Here is a provocative take on an internet juggernaut: Google is nothing but a giant Ponzi scheme that is coming undone as I write. This is not an accusation, but more a hypothesis.  What gives this hypothesis legs is a recent discovery that Google is aggressively cracking down on so-called “violators” of the terms and conditions of its “Adsense” program.  My own website recently fell victim to this ruthless and mindless activity.  We have been gradually building our readership and hence our

The home of John R. Mallgren of Mastic Beach, New York was condemned for unsafe conditions. Workers then removed 85,000 pounds of debris from the property, which required 10 garbage trucks! The city is sending the $8,742 bill to the owner of the property, John W. Mallgren, who is the occupant’s father. He had tried to clean up the property before, but was threatened by his son. Town Supervisor Mark Lesko said a pit bull was also seized, and was taken to a shelter.