The Headlines Review
Napoleon Linardatos comments on the headlines.
Napoleon Linardatos comments on the headlines.
“California city shuts down girl's lemonade stand”
-Fresno Bee, August 6, 2009
The era of corporate excess and greed is over.
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“White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits”
-Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2009
Barack Obama had enough when his Cybersecurity Chief could not stem the tide of emails to the presidential Blackberry promising “male enhancement.”
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“Assisted suicide law will apply in Britain”
-The Telegraph, August 3, 2009
The Brits were ahead of us in instituting government healthcare and now they are ahead of us in bending the cost curve. Congrats.
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“Lifeguard Caught Wearing Headphones Suspended”
-New York Post, August 3, 2009
He was listening to a Relaxing Sea Sounds CD.
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“Canadian gets life sentence in Ethiopia”
-National Post, August 3, 2009
On the plus side, life expectancy in Ethiopia is half that of Canada.
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“Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lake”
-Agence France-Presse, August 1, 2009
Vladimir Putin, a hands-on Prime Minister, was inspecting the last resting place of dissenting Russian journalists and activists.
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“Twitter Tries to Regroup After Attack”
-The New York Times, August 7, 2009
Early regroup efforts were unsuccessful since Twitter engineers were unaccustomed to communicating with each other with more than 140 characters.
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“Citizen foot patrol helping corral prostitution on Portland's 82nd Avenue”
-The Oregonian, August 2, 2009
Surprisingly, all the patrol volunteers are male.
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“New York Seeks Millions in Tax From Lehman”
-The New York Times, August 4, 2009
The ultimate sign of decadence when a nearly bankrupt entity is seeking taxes from bankrupt one.
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“Poll: Americans claim that they're not so fat”
-McClatchy Newspapers, August 6, 2009
That’s right, we are just a nation of 300 million big bones.