Happy Belated Birthday Dr. Seuss

Tuesday the 2nd was Dr. Seuss’ 106th birthday. Lets recognize the man’s genius by throwing mad props his way for writing Green Eggs and Ham using only 50 distinct words.
a am and anywhere are be boat box car could dark do eat eggs fox goat good green ham here house I if in let like [...]

Wall Street Journal Does Snoop Dogg

Easily the dopest Wall Street Journal hedcut ever. via

Speaking The Language Helps

Rudy Jaramillo is generally considered the best hitting coach in baseball and one of the reasons why kind of shocked me:
That communication ability is enhanced by his fluency in Spanish, making him the majors’ only bilingual hitting coach — and one reason Alfonso Soriano said he loved working with him.
Italics mine. There’s only one bilingual [...]

Feltron Annual Report 2009

I have these brief moments when I feel a great urge to count and categorize things in my life. For a time when I was in middle school I had a red binder in which I recorded when I started and finished every book I read. I have, with a handful of exceptions, the ticket [...]

Newspaper Delivery Boy Probably Helped Too

I know its two weeks old but I couldn’t let this Washington Post “article” on the White House party-crashers pass unnoticed here. Those paying attention will remember a previous post here where it was pointed out that 11 Post employees worked on an earlier piece covering this “story”. So lets look at this new article. [...]

You Don’t Wear Orange Crocs To Meet Michelle Obama

I get that the orange Crocs are Mario Batali’s “thing” but come on man.

Sketchy Santas

Sketchy Santas. Need I say more? Didn’t think so.

I’m The One Who Doesn’t Watch Porn

Porn. Pornography. It disgusts me. I find it repulsive. I don’t watch or look at it and I think those that do are probably going straight to H-E-double toothpicks. Apparently I’m in the minority. To whit:
Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to [...]

Kiva Middleman to Middlemen

The NY Times had an interesting article the other day about how Kiva, the micro-financing organization, actually works:
Kiva, a nonprofit organization, promoted itself as a link between small individual lenders and small individual borrowers like Maryjane Cruz in the Philippines, who recently sought a $625 loan to support her family’s farm.
But Mr. Roodman’s blog post [...]

How Does One Become A Cheese Buyer For Whole Foods?

I like to eat cheese and Whole Foods generally has a good, if expensive, selection to pick from. As such I decided to ask Dan Steinberg about it since, before he was a superstar sports blogger for the Post, he was himself a cheese buyer for Whole Foods.
Washington, D.C.: Lets talk dream jobs: How [...]

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