I can only feel deeply honored when I receive press releases like this one: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles, CA Can a reincarnated dog bring hope and renewed life to an owner suffering from multiple tragedies? That’s what Lynda J. Austin, now a well-known writer on dog spirituality, discovered when her own dog Maxwell, a [...]
That phrase was in a comment to my previous Paul Wolfowitz post and I just loved it so much I had to repeat it. And heck, why stop with Wolfowitz? Let’s just fire everybody! The thing I find surprising about this Wolfowitz scandal is that he never struck me as the crony type. He always [...]
It took a while, but Matt McAlister finally rose to the bait of my post on “The reign of the enthusiasts,” in which I razzed him as a “web2topian.” My point was that many of the most ballyhooed Web 2.0 applications, from Google’s search engine to digg and on down the list, deliver skewed and [...]
The latest shoe in the Wolfie-gets-his-girlfriend-a-tax-free-$193,000-PR-job scandal appears to have dropped in today’s FT: Paul Wolfowitz personally directed the World Bank’s head of human resources to offer Shaha Riza, a bank official with whom he was romantically involved, a large pay rise and a promotion as part of an external secondment package, according to two [...]
