Month: June 2013

  • Mindjet Introduces Mindjet ProjectDirector to Offer Businesses Purpose-Driven- Project-Based Collabo

    Big launch today: Mindjet Introduces Mindjet ProjectDirector to Offer Businesses Purpose-Driven- Project-Based Collabo SAN FRANCISCO- CA–(Marketwired – Jun 18- 2013) – Today Mindjet introduced Mindjet ProjectDirector

  • Chuck E. Cheese and Shattered Dreams

    “As soon as I stepped out of the kitchen door as Chuck E. all of the playing and screaming stopped. The room fell silent, save for the occasional bleep-bloop of a video game. I was surrounded by a sea of startled, wide-eyed faces.Then they rushed me. All Hell broke loose. “Chuck Eeeeeee, Chuck Eeeeee!” I […]

  • Mass Shootings and Madness

    “Over and over again the “mental health issues” being described (outside of Loughner and his ilk) seem to be someone angry about their treatment by the outside world and having difficulty fitting in. Cho shot up Virginia Tech for precisely these reasons. I think the focus on mental health issues beats the hell out of another […]

  • Why We Need Sean Hannity

    “But the public doesn’t care about this stuff, right? So how do you get Joe America to talk about it in his living room? You give him a little hit of testosterone. Getting to the next step required substituting emotional response for intellectual response. Reality TV, chat boards, talk radio…there were dozens of new vehicles to […]

  • The US Economy in 3 Paragraphs

    “The QE the fed is doing (purchasing $85B of securities per month) is keeping both the housing market and stock market at their current levels. Without that prop up, each of these markets would “topple” like a domino in that there would be a quick return to real value. “Additionally, America has 20% of it’s […]

  • Peter Parker's Impossible Mantra

    “You see, the mantra With great power comes great responsibility is a complete abstract, so amorphous in nature it can be applied to nearly anything. … The advice from Uncle Ben was incomplete, and certainly he could not foresee the things that were to come for his nephew. … Spider-Man is stuck in this incomplete, pubescent […]

  • Superman is a Sun God

    “It’s the mythology of a sun god who wished he was a man because he saw something so great in us. It’s the story of a hero who could move whole worlds and see through stars and hear a whisper on the other side of the planet… who fell in love with a storyteller. It’s […]

  • Phone Metadata Can Tell What You Do As Opposed to What You Say

    “That’s because a phone call—the metadata of a phone call tells what you do as opposed to what you say. So, for example, if you call from the hospital when you’re getting a mammogram, and then later in the day your doctor calls you, and then you call the surgeon, and then when you’re at […]

  • Opinion: The problem with "Devious Maids" goes far beyond Hollywood

    Novelist Alisa Valdes: 'Six years ago- I had a deal with Lifetime Television to develop my bestselling novel- The Dirty Girls Social Club- as a TV series. It soon became clear that the relationship wasn't going to work- when two executives insisted that my pilot outline "wasn't Latin enough-" because it told of middle class- […]

  • Miss Utah USA Gives Worst Pageant Answer Since Miss South Carolina

    Like everywhere. Such as. Miss Utah USA Gives Worst Pageant Answer Since Miss South Carolina