Links: I’m About To Pop!
August 1, 2007 | 8:16 am
UMass chairman Stephen Tocco’s plan for fixing the school deserves a better hearing than it’s received. But then, where our public university is concerned, politics always trumps common sense.
Poll: Does Boston Actually Suck More Than D.C.?
Generally we try to avoid thinking about Boston or D.C. at all, because to do so is boring, but occasionally our hands are forced. So we considered Boston. First, those accents, oh my God. They’re like nails on a blackboard. (Did I mention I’m from Boston? Yeah.) Then there are the mass transit issues (the T shuts down by 1 a.m.), the drinking issues (last call is at 2), the white-hat issues (blech), the weird WASP-Irish-Italian nexus, the segregation, the ridiculous real estate prices (and for WHAT?), the Celtics suck, the Red Sox obsession is pathological…
Is bottled water proof that consumers are daft?
The success of bottled water is in many ways one of capitalism’s greatest mysteries. Studies show consistently that tap water is purer than many bottled waters—not including those that contain only tap water, which by some estimates is 40% of the total by volume. The health benefits that are claimed for some bottled waters are unproven, at best. By volume, bottled water often costs 1,000 times the price of tap water. Indeed, even with oil prices sky high, a litre of bottled water can cost more than a litre of petrol. And on top of that, there are the environmental costs of transporting bottled water and of manufacturing and disposing of the bottles.
Why the “Ode to the Nice Guys†Is Complete Crap
A man should not be “Nice.†He should have goals, passion, convictions, identity and a sense of self. Sometimes a man needs to put himself first.
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September 21, 2007 at 11:46 am
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