To make up for today’s light posting, here–again courtesy of my wife and of the UK’s Financial Services Authority–is a link to a website using the ‘stripped down’ modern approach to investor education: The world of money laid bare, from the FSA.
I guess it says something about the British that you need pictures of unclothed people to get them to pay attention to their finances.
I also bet this post gets lots of traffic…
According to a UK government report, entitled “Sex, lies and money. Research reveals finance is the new taboo,”
One third of women are dishonest to their partners about their credit card spending habits (33%) compared to 29% of men admitting not always telling the truth.
Is she trying to tell me something? Or does she suspect?
The University of Miami Law Review is pleased to invite you to its 2006 Symposium titled, “The Schiavo Case: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” The Symposium is designed to examine the issues that survive the Terri Schiavo case, including basic questions that may affect the structure and perceptions of our legal system, from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. We will address this situation from standpoints that include ethics, therapeutic jurisprudence, family law, Florida and United States constitutional considerations, judicial independence, economic implications, disability law, executive branch power, media influence, and government responsibility. The Symposium will feature academics and practitioners from around the United States representing both the legal and medical fields. The Symposium will begin at 9:00 am on Saturday, February 18th, and will include breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail reception.
Make them stop. I have work to do.
I read about the McCain-Obama dust up with a degree of incredulity, because it seems to me that one of the things that Sen. McCain can least afford is anything that will feed the whispers that, well, he’s not quite right, a little bit, you know, unstable. And this intemperate letter is so un-Senatorial in its lack of courtesy as to be enough to fuel an entire muttering, not just whispering, campaign.
Talking Points Memo does a valiant job of trying to find a rational motive for what seems otherwise to be a fit of childish pique:
the key here to note is what’s behind this dust-up. Obama is a rising star among the Democrats. Republicans want to lay a backstory for feature criticisms and character attacks against him. So, for instance, if Obama is the vice presidential candidate in 2008, they want to have a history of attacks on him banked, ones that allege he’s a liar, or too partisan, or untrustworthy, whatever. It doesn’t even really matter. What matters is that there already be an established history of them. Point being, that in early 2008, they want to be able to simply refer back to Obama’s ‘character issue’, the questions about his honesty, etc. rather than have to make the case on its merits.
So which is it: McCain the whiny baby, or McCain the unprincipled Machiavellian conniver?
Not even cold in her grave, the Republican slime machine starts to desecrate Coretta Scott King’s funeral.
Yes, any time the opposition congregates it’s time to bring out virtual fire hoses. Uppity folk don’t know their place.
Given that the gloss on the sound machine has started to crack a little, it will be interesting to see how far this latest lunatic Rovian meme seeps out of cable and into so-called respectable journalism.
Alex Halavais predicts the demise of MySpace based on unorthodox market research.
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