It is increasingly annoying me that anyone is referring to a failing company as "too big to fail."

If a company is failing, then it is clearly capable of failing.

If, instead, the issue is that it's too big for the company to be allowed to fail, then it seems to me that these companies need to be downsized immediately. We shouldn't want to save ( Read more... )

Having re-discovered that I have a livejournal account on which I can rant, here's another:

Todd Akin is clearly an idiot and will hopefully withdraw from politics. However, all the articles I've seen on him (admittedly just from stumbling around online recently rather than specifically searching) have been about him personally being an offensive ( Read more... )

Okay, wow, I hadn't realized how long it's been since I last posted. I'm still alive. More or less. I graduated with my masters, am finishing up my research position, am furiously job hunting, and will probably be moving to DC in about a month unless I get a job offer from somewhere else within the next four weeks. Life, it keeps happening.

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It has been a long time since I last posted so clearly it is time for another rant ( Read more... )

Waiting for Sherlock to come on, I've been watching various PBS shows, one of which was all about medieval cathedrals. It was actually quite interesting. The problem was that it kept talking, quite ominously, about the secret codes built into the very structure of the cathedrals.

What they were referring to was the fact that the architects found ( Read more... )

A random rant ( Read more... )

A bit of philosophy ( Read more... )

Here I am writing various application essays. They're getting real irritating and repetitive and I'm fighting back temptation to throw in random tangents just to make the essays more interesting, even though I know perfectly well that the readers are all different and it's not only okay but a good idea to simply tailor the same essay to each ( Read more... )