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Lee's march
Does anyone else find it a little ironic in tables-turned terms that Lee is making a slow march of destruction to the northeast? -
I didn't even know it was sick!
As part of the Auditing Standards Board’s efforts to converge U.S. and international standards, SAS no. 70 is being divided into parts and replaced by two new standards. The changes also place the standards in areas that better reflect the nature of the subject matter and the work performed.
SAS 70 out, SSAE 16 in ( Read more... ) -
A merry happy et cetera!
Which is to say, [positive adjective] [seasonal event]! -
At last, my friends, it is time! Time...
...for a mashup of The Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" and MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This".
Audio artists, get cracking!
(I mean... where is the "TSA Edition" of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjP6QAobG24) -
BP is thinking of rebranding its retail franchises
Well, looks like the independent retailers laboring under the BP brand are thinking of rebranding. They're talking a return to Amoco.
But I'm thinking truth in advertising. I suggest:
Gulf Oil. -
Gourmudgeon
In conversation about gourmet vs. gourmand, a term came to me yesterday:
gourmudgeon - One who enjoys the process of criticizing fine cuisine. -
Supreme Court holds 8-1 that 14th Amendment had nothing to do with protecting freed slaves
Today, the US Supreme Court held, in an 8-1 decision, that the construction, wording, and passage of the 14th Amendment had nothing to do with protecting freed slaves from legal and extra-legal oppression by reactionary whites in the post bellum South. In particular, the eight majority Justices shrugged off any notion that the phrase, "No State ( Read more... ) -
Why government function is spelled out in Constitutions
A lot of constitutional (state and federal) discourse is carried out on the question of government over-reaching the powers granted to it. But powers are not the only things in there. The powers have purposes. There are also functions that are spelled-out requirements of the chartered government ( Read more... ) -
Self-indulgence, self-importance, "irony," and the banking of moral capital
Two little self-important jackasses have brought to mind today this article ( Read more... )