The Incomplete Cynic
“You are 9 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist” .. (from this article)
(via wilwheaton)
“He’d created a lot of franchise value, and we were going to pay him for that,” Conard said, adding: “We had a very complicated set of negotiations that took us about two years for us to unwind. During that time a management committee ran the firm, and we could hardly get Mitt to come back to negotiate the terms of his departure because he was working so hard on the Olympics.”
Conard’s comments are the latest in a growing pile of evidence that contradicts Romney’s repeated claims that he ended his active role at Bain in 1999. On Sunday, The Huffington Post reported on a corporate document filed in December 2002 that lists Romney as a “managing member” of Bain Capital Investors. Earlier reports show Romney listed as CEO on 2002 Securites and Exchange Commission filings, attending board meetings for Bain-affiliated companies after 1999, and receiving an at least $100,000 salary from Bain in 2001 and 2002.
Yeah, that sounds like he definitely continued his “active role”. Active CEOs always let management committees run their companies while they’re off at other jobs. The fact that he was on the books and attended some board meetings definitely proves that he was running the show all along.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
It might not quite be “philanthropy” that is coming up trumps, but Inman is certainly raking the donations in. He reached his $20,000 goal in just 64 minutes and had raised a massive $118,000 24 hours after the fundraiser went live. I’m betting, that by the time this article goes live, BearLove Good will have more money in its bank than Greece.
Beautiful.
Gary Hart: Is Progress Possible?
I totally get it now! Government is required for progress! Quick question though…if government is required for progress, how’d we progress to the point where a government was possible, without a government to help us along?
Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies - Businessweek (via jeffmiller)
My favorite part:
Worker groups say the code itself isn’t the issue. “If the code is complicated, it’s because our society is complicated,” says Bernard Vivier, director of the Higher Institute of Labor in Paris, which studies labor relations for unions and companies. “Cars are much more complicated today than they were 40 years ago. Why shouldn’t the labor code be?”
(via jeffmiller)
not one single mother fucker stood up to help her.
not one.
More power to her.
BAD ASS
+5
(Source: tragic--flaw)
Fact: College graduates of all majors earn more money throughout their lifetimes than those who do not possess a degree.
Fact: There is a correlation between education and happiness.
Question: Does graduating college make you smarter and better prepared to enter and succeed in the workforce, or are smart and prepared people more likely to graduate college, and therefore more likely to succeed?
It’s probably way more likely that because the people entering college are generally smarter and more capable than the general population - and those who graduate smarter and more capable still - that what you see is selection bias. Is it really a useful comparison? Not really. In one group you have 90% of the country’s smartest and most able people. In the other is the remaining 10%, plus everyone who wasn’t smart enough or a good enough student to get into (or get through) college, and most 1st generation immigrants. You seriously think we should compare the incomes of these two groups and attribute the difference only to a college degree?
Italy, 1992. A 45-year-old driving instructor picks up an 18-year-old girl for her first lesson, takes her to an isolated road, pulls her out of the car, wrestles her out of one leg of her jeans and rapes her. She courageously tells her parents. They help and support her in pressing charges, leading to the perpetrator’s arrest and prosecution. He is convicted of rape and sentenced to jail.
He appeals. The case reaches the Italian Supreme Court, which overturns his sentence and releases him. “Because the victim wore very, very tight jeans,” the Court notes in their decision, “she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.”
For people around the world appalled by the way criminal justice systems treat survivors of sexual assault, the judges’ words became a rallying cry. Within hours, the women in Italy’s Parliament organized a protest: they wore jeans to work. Not long after, California’s State Legislature wore jeans to their legislative session. And in April of 1999, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Peace Over Violence held the first official Denim Day in Los Angeles. Denim Day now spans the nation and has grown into a powerful national movement about sexual assault prevention and education. A movement committed to empowerment.
But today, on the eve of Denim Day 2012, the same pernicious myths, misconceptions and victim-blaming attitudes that motivated the first Denim Day persist. Experts agree that these myths contribute heavily to the stark realities of sexual violence in the United States: nearly one in five women will experience sexual assault in her lifetime; most rapes are never reported; and only an estimated 6% of perpetrators ever spend a day in jail.
I wear jeans to work almost every day, but if I didn’t, I’m pretty sure I’d throw some on to participate in Denim Day. I’m not much of an activist, but I think this is a pretty righteous cause.
