Thursday Brain Drain
(Web Stuff • Writing)
This week’s best other stuff from brains that contribute to bringing you this stuff:
→ OK, which is better, keeping abreast of the latest legal underpinnings shaping the future of our society, or listening to the babble of crackheads leaving the courthouse? You may already have guessed the answer.
→ Let’s say you’re trying to raise $52 million to help cement the Big Corporate Choke-Hold on American politics. Trouble is, prospective donors are put off by laws requiring the quick disclosure of their names. ¡Hey Presto! Just create a 501©(4) organization, which doesn’t have to disclose donors until months after the attack ads run. And who better to hire as front man for this Rovian effort than the vice chairman of a Swiss bank implicated in a major tax evasion criminal investigation?
→ Not content to merely drive newspaper web site visitors away by building the sort of paywall so popular with his bigger peers, publisher Oreste P. D’Arconte has unveiled a more impressive scheme for annoying any remaining digital readers who stop by.
→ Small businesses created more than 60% of all new U.S. jobs in the past 15 years, so when I got a half-dozen letters from the IRS the other day, I figured they were refund checks resulting from a shrewd plan to provide direct stimulus to those of us who actually power America’s economic engine, as opposed to corporations who are so patriotic they’ll happily move their headquarters to the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes. Yeah, right.
→Women who wear tattoos now find themselves in the Mexican government’s cross-hairs, targeted as poster children for the erosion of social values. As debate ignites over a woman’s right to artistically embellish her own body vs. her social/moral obligations, The Mex Files supports the Marxist tattoo viewpoint.
→ B.Dunn, Jul 15, 2010, 06 59 AM
