Date archive for January, 2010

• What the Hell is “God’s Work,” Mr. Spitzer?

  3 January 10 • 7 comments

  New York’s Resolutions This morning, The New York Times reported New Year’s resolutions from a few prominent New Yorkers. Here’s what Eliot Spitzer had to say: I would love to see investment bankers actually do God’s work. Do we have any idea what qualifies as “God’s work?” Especially on Wall Street where everybody tries to destroy [...]

• What Does $22 Billion in Goldman Bonuses Buy?

  2 January 10 • 2 comments

  

  Iceland, at 1.32 times 2008 GDP 51 bottles of cheap vodka for every Russian, babies included 1,629,460 years of public school, K-12 400,000 gastric bypass surgeries 611,111 free passes for Irish atheists to blaspheme* Avatar tickets for everyone living in China, the United States, Indonesia, and Japan combined One week at New York’s Four Seasons [...]

• What Slang Should We Ban During 2010?

  2 January 10 • 2 comments

  

  I just saw Lake Superior State University’s (“LSSU”) 35th annual list of words or expressions that should be banned. The committee attacks slang sweeping through our culture like “tweeting,” “sexting,” or the ever popular “chillaxin,” which is a cross between “chillin” and “relaxin.”

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