• Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
• Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009
• Markets in everything: terrifying yet stupid pieces of furniture
• “A Bureaucratic Nightmare”
• Killing Us With Crony Capitalism
• When the Engineer Gardens
• Marion Barry, Defender of Marriage – “You wonder what the politicians who are not moral are like.”
• Nader: Obama Ignores Me and Other Progressives
• After swine flu gaffe, Biden sent to his safe zone
• Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama’s Double-Homicide
• Is 10% of portfolio too much for the [Vanguard] Energy Fund
• No child left alone
• Bailout Watch 518: How Much is This Boondoggle Going to Cost Me?
• Shiller on Depression Scares
• Krugman: Falling Wage Syndrome
• The thinkers who predicted early on many aspects of this financial crisis
• Dead Grass Alternative
• I’m not the only doomsayer
• The Boston Globe vs. The New York Times–vs. the internet: “The old saying about premarital sex–why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?–appears to apply to the newspaper world as well.”
• Swine flu and hotel liability
• Stainless Steel Microneedles for Flu Vaccine Delivery
• I’m becoming semi-nomadic
• John Allison and Rand – “We don’t think that it’s good business in the long term to do bad things to your clients, even if you make a profit doing it.”
• Costs Are Not Benefits
• How To Prevent Speech From Being Suppressed – “Apparently it’s fine for Congress to debate the DREAM Act but not campus speakers.”
• BOOKS: Freedom to offend
• Generous Lust
• Delicious Squeezable Bacon
• More on the new Geoffrey Miller book, *Spent*
• Business Resolutions For The New Year
• COPS: The Suburban Edition?!
• Systemic Fraud at Public Pension Funds?
• Video of UAE torture prince assaulting 25 others — who’s censoring this news in the UAE?
• The Ladder Lock: Your Little Ladder-Holding Buddy
• Bluetooth Headset Makers in Class-Action Lawsuit — Give Me a Break
• Carmageddon Continues
• The high cost of firing (or not firing) teachers
• What Would An Activist Do?
• Ocean Godzilla v. Space Godzilla v. Mogera
• It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
• Human landscapes from above