Don’t miss this program: frontline: secret history of the credit card | PBS. You can watch it on RealPlayer, or at least read the accompanying articles.
What’s so important to understand from this report is: the credit industry is not one in which the business wants the consumer to fulfill his obligation to them. This [...]

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If you’ve spent much time in one of those seriously “red” states in the US - so-named because they always show up Red for Republicans on election day maps - you may already realize conservatives rate independent thinking somewhere between putting hexes on people and homicide. It’s automatically suspect - evidence of someone trying to [...]

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Here’s an article that got me thinking, and not just about what it discusses: CNN.com - Class seeks to rid kids of Appalachian accents - Feb 4, 2005
It’s about a theater class in Kentucky where kids are being taught to speak without the mountain accent. I see no controversy there: if kids want to get [...]

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Great read here: Business Majors are Stupid
I’ve wondered for a long time how majoring in business somehow achieved normal college status while majoring in “woodworking” is knocked as a mere vocational pursuit.
Like having a degree in business gives you an understanding of… anything?
The really beautiful thing about MBA’s in particular is they can work in [...]

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There are a few good online places to buy Mac stuff, but my favorite is MacSolutions.com. I first started buying Macs and Mac stuff from them back in 1998 or 1999. The prices were great, but also they have real people answering the phone - people who work at their actual shop, and like Macs [...]

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Have you seen this stuff? Check out the customer reviews at the bottom of this page on Target.com’s site: Target : Portland Bed in a Bag Collection
A lot of the reviews I’ve looked at are very negative, and yet they remain posted. Is this a bad business move for Target, or are they building [...]

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Here’s the latest episode in our pre-adolescent society’s obsession with banning everything that could ever potentially harm anyone under any circumstances, no matter how stupid or unlikely, with absolutely no regard for how many ways it could help somebody.
New state law: you’re only allowed to buy two sinus medications at a time. Two packages of [...]

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