URLs du Jour

2006-07-21

  • We blogged about the marvelous benefits "diversity" had brought to New Mexico Highlands University last week. The NMHU regents have now successfully negotiated an exit for president Manny Aragon, which involves him pocketing a $200K check, and maintaining 18 months of health insurance coverage. One regent estimates the cost of Aragon's two-year presidency at $700K. In addition, the linked article claims that NMHU has spent $133,973 over the past two years, large amounts of that due to "diversity"-based lawsuits.

  • Red Sox Manager Terry Francona has placed pitcher Tim Wakefield on the disabled list for a broken rib. What? How did that happen?
    Francona said Wakefield doesn't remember how he injured himself. It might have been from sleeping on it wrong.
    Sleeping on it wrong? It's not hard to put two and two together here: clearly, Bernie & Phyl are to blame.
    Before reporting to Fenway Park for yesterday's game, Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield finished shooting a TV ad for Bernie & Phyl's Furniture, with the company's owners, Bernie and Phyllis Rubin. The ad will air next month. Wakefield tries to strike out Bernie to win a free Sealy mattress.
    Consumer alert: you can break a rib sleeping on a free Sealy mattress from Bernie & Phyl's.

    (Apologies to non-Red Sox fans, and those lucky enough to have never seen a Bernie & Phyl's TV ad.)

  • Back on Tuesday, I callously ridiculed the New York Times for its drastic money-saving moves, which Wall Street rewarded with a one-day 2.2% share price drop to $22.67.

    Well, it's been three trading days since then, investors and analysts have had a long quiet time to consider the situation, and … NYT closed today at $21.98, down another 3.1% since Tuesday. Standard & Poor's also downgraded the NYT credit rating from "A" to "A-" today. Please consider Tuesday's gloating to be cut-n-pasted here.

  • Geez, Raven, see if I invite you to my funeral. We're getting a bounce house.


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