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Month: June 2010

  • Walmart Defeats Chicago- Plans To Open Up To 21 Stores

    Walmart Defeats Chicago- Plans To Open Up To 21 Stores

  • Domino's Delivery Guy Demands Customer's Social Security Number

    Domino's Delivery Guy Demands Customer's Social Security Number

  • Things Fall Apart

    Great comment: "You say that 'Most taxpayers don't get cushy pensions after 20 years on the job; why should civil servants?' You've got this exactly backwards. Civil servants get reasonable pensions after 20 to 30 years on the job. Why shouldn't you?" Things Fall Apart

  • Film Salon: The secrets of "Psycho's" shower scene

    Anthony Perkins was not onset during the shower scene. That's an extra. Film Salon: The secrets of "Psycho's" shower scene How I uncovered the shocking truth about Hitchcock's best-known moment — and why it still matters- 50 years on

  • Broadsheet: Soccer player slaps female reporter

    Nothing like battery to lighten up soccer. Broadsheet: Soccer player slaps female reporter And FIFA does nothing — not that we're surprised- given its track record on anti-female behavior

  • Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs

    Alrighty CIA- go to it. Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs Venezuela will nationalize a fleet of oil rigs belonging to U.S. company Helmerich and Payne- the latest takeover in a push to socialism as President Hugo Chavez struggles with lower oil output and a recession.

  • Surprise Webinar

    Hey biz-folks and other happy tree friends: Gitomer's got a free telesemiwebinar tomorrow: Surprise Webinar This Friday- June 25 from 3-4PM Eastern Time- join Jeffrey and me on a Surprise Webinar Event for Ace of Sales members only!

  • How Pixar Installed the Creative Process for the Long Term

    How Pixar Installed the Creative Process for the Long Term Pixar is one of the few places I'd kill to work at. Their attention to creativity and extremely high product quality always blows my mind. I recently watched the opening of Up again and it is absolute perfection.

  • Judge who overturned drilling moratorium holds stock in drilling companies

    Judge who overturned drilling moratorium holds stock in drilling companies The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium appears to own stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industryincluding Transocean- which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexicoaccording to…

  • American Psychosis

    "What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?" American Psychosis The United States- locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires- is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. …