this is an adventure

Anna Schwartz shares her thoughts on the economic meltdown. “Born in 1915 in New York, she can still be found nearly every day at her office in the National Bureau of Economic Research on Fifth Avenue, where she has been tirelessly gathering data since 1941.” And that knowledge fuels disagreements with Bernanke, Geithner, and Obama.

Jennifer Roback Morse argues that “The Iowa court’s recent decision does not simply broaden marriage, it radically changes its nature. While marriage previously served public purposes of attaching mothers and fathers to their children and one another, now marriage merely serves as affirmation of adult feelings.” But was government’s role in marriage so important?

Some bright soul at the White House decides to send Air Force One lookalike (i.e. a real one, but without POTUS inside) to buzz New York City for a photo-op. Throughout apologies, they call it a “mission,” as if the plane was detailed to seek and destroy the Gotham bird population. Bad idea all around.

Advertising is in a horrific crunch period and those of us with business models that rely on advertising dollars are well aware of the fact. Microsoft[‘s online division] lost $575 million last quarter because of it. Obviously, putting out a glossy print magazine comes with more overhead than running a blog or even an online-only […]