Archive for February, 2010:

Janice Dickinson — Now Accepting Applications

Filed under: TV Janice Dickinson wants to be Demi Moore — as in she wants her own version of Ashton Kutcher — so she’s getting a dating show to find herself one. Dickinson will get her own “Bachelorette” style show, which she’s putting together with Wikked … Permalink Go to Source

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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

Thursday’s health care summit could have been dubbed Talking Points-Palooza. The GOP stayed ferociously on message, with speaker after speaker calling on the president to “start over” with a “clean sheet of paper” and take a “step-by-step approach.” For their part, Democrats were committed to sending the message that, as Max Baucus put it, “We’re [...]

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Jeff "The Dude" Dowd: Jeff Bridges: Charm, Humor, Heart, And An Oscar Run

I used to be somebody, now I’m somebody else” is a self-pitying lament from Bad Blake, the washed-up country singer who struggles to find his heart and soul, exquisitely portrayed by Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart.” For movie-goers, who have been cinematically blessed watching Jeff Bridges for nearly four decades in 65 movies, “I used [...]

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RBS Paying Large Bonuses; Commerzbank Bankers Get Zero

Edward Harrison submits: Over the past few days, a number of major European banks have announced earnings results. Two of the most dismal results were registered at the British company Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and at Germany’s Commerzbank (CRZBY.PK). However, the similarity ends there because, while Commerzbank investment bankers received no bonus, the bankers [...]

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Six Things Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter Didn’t Say

James Altucher submits: What I didn’t see in the Berkshire Hathaway report: 1. A more substantial discussion of succession. While he mentions it in the last few paragraphs he doesn’t add any information to what we already know from prior announcements. Despite going on and on about how CEOs don’t do enough risk management, the [...]

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The Family Physician Cartel Objects to the Expansion of Services Offered By Retail Clinics

“The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Board of Directors has revised its official policy on retail health clinics to reflect the Academy’s opposition to a growing expansion of scope of services provided by many such clinics. In addition, the Academy has discontinued its practice of entering into formal agreements with retail health clinics that support [...]

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Is the Dismal Science Really a Science? Is There Really Such a Thing as Free Beer?

Russ Roberts writing in the Wall Street Journal: “The defenders of modern macroeconomics argue that if we just study the economy long enough, we’ll soon be able to model it accurately and design better policy. Soon. That reminds me of the permanent sign in the bar: Free Beer Tomorrow.We should face the evidence that we [...]

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Tale of Two Quakes: Chile Was Ready, Haiti Wasn’t

The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month — yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher. Go to Source

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Tsunami From Chile Quake Hits Japan, Initial Waves Small

Japan put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by an earthquake off Chile raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles per hour. Go to Source

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Epic Beard Man the Documentary

Just when you thought a meme was about to die this happens. Per the video’s description: “[A] film documenting Thomas Bruso and the days surrounding the release of an internet video showcasing a fight on an Oakland public bus.” Say what you want, but Epic Beard Man is entirely too interesting to go away just [...]

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