The poll is closed and a slim majority of Dvorak Uncensored readers think the Colts will win. Feel free to discuss your opinions on your favorite team in the comments.
To our non-American readers, we feel your pain. Spending three hours to watch 12 minutes of actual play time is asinine to us too. But take solace in the fact that the ads are entertaining, the cheerleaders are smoking hot, and any excuse to drink beer is a good one.
While the iPad was officially announced in January, the iPad will not be available for purchase until late March. However, it seems some iPads have been seeded into the wild as David Vogler claims to have seen one in a New York City Starbucks (photo).
If you’re having trouble waiting for the iPad to arrive, Jess Silverstone, the lead artist for Revolutionary Concepts put together a cut-out of the Apple iPad that you can print yourself.
The cutout is provided in two separate PNG files (iPad Front 664KB and iPad Rear 377KB). Each cutout can fit on standard A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) paper, but your printer has to be capable of borderless printing to achieve close to actual iPad dimensions. The real iPad dimensions are 9.56 inches x 7.47 inches x 0.5 inches. They’ve even included a cutout of the A4 processor you can include for “improved performance”.
Here’s what it looks like put together:
When NPR went looking for someone to speak out in favor of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” thy could not have found a better representative of thinking on that side of the aisle than Duncan Hunter. Wait a sec… did I say thinking because that clearly not a problem that afflicts Congressman Hunter.
Duncan Hunter: the military is not civilian life. In think the folks that have been in the military… that have been in these very close situations with each other, there has to be a special bond there. But that bond is broken if you open up the military to transgenders to hermaphrodites to gays and lesbians.
NPR: Trangenders and hermaphrodites?
Duncan Hunter: Yeah, that’s gonna be… uh, uh, uh… part of this whole thing. It’s not just gays and lesbians. It’s the whole gay lesbian transgender bisexual community. If you’re going to let anybody in no matter what sexual preference that they have, that means the military’s going to let everybody in.
I can’t tell what’s stranger: that Duncan Hunter is in a rash about hermaphrodites invading the US military, or that he thinks being a hermaphrodite is a sexual preference.
So, what do you think about Obama’s wanting to change the policy? Should homophobes be considered more of a liability in the military than gays? If you feel gays shouldn’t be in the military, do you feel blacks and women shouldn’t either since they also can’t help how they were born? When you’re being attacked by the enemy, which is more important: the guy next to you can shoot straight or that he’s not gay?
Much of the Eastern half of the US is being hit with a massive, historic (and all those other words news guys haul out for things like this) global warming snow storm. Southern Cal is having more torrential rainstorms while here at home in Vegas it’s been raining off and on which, given the drought we’ve had for years, is welcome, though a drop in the bucket of what we need. Anyone coming here for the Super Bowl tomorrow, please bring some of your extra rain or snow. Thanks!
The WSJ’s Sue Craig reported this evening that Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein is taking a mere $9 million bonus for 2009, in all stock and no cash.
This comes after a year in which the Wall Street firm reported massive profits and compares with the $70 million in compensation that Blankfein collected for 2007.
It seemed likely that Blankfein was going to take a small bonus given all the criticism that Goldman has faced for its role in the financial crisis and the fact that many of its profits have been earned through government intervention in the capital markets. In addition, Goldman’s rank and file employees have had to take smaller bonuses, as the company reduces its overall compensation ratios to the lowest levels since Goldman went public.
Still, $9 million seems perfectly calibrated: Not large enough to be dubbed a “double digit” bonus. But not so small as to seem that Blankfein capitulated completely to political pressures.
Consider that Blankfein’s bonus is nearly half that of JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon . It’s also smaller than far less-well known figures in finance. Would you believe that Blankfein is now officially paid less than the CEO of Jefferies, Richard Handler, who is expected to earn a $12 million bonus in cash and stock.
Outrageous…how is the man suppose to live on that?
Mmmmm…. H1N1 flavored Hagen Dazs!
First, there was Pepsi Vanilla. Then there was Pepsi Lime. Now, exclusively at Walgreens, you can get the latest special flavor of Pepsi: Pepsi H1N1. It is also available in frozen pizza, Buffalo wing, and ice cream form.
Fortunately, if you’re not yet infected, Coke bottles offer the vaccine.
Yes, as if their outdoor billboards advertising “H1N1 NOW AVAILABLE” weren’t confusing enough, they’ve now apparently printed up stickers and started slapping them on every surface in the store with no sense whatsoever of how this could be just a bit incongruous. Nah.
Instead of just pointing to other articles, this is an original opinion piece I wrote about Obama’s leadership… something I think a lot of people will agree with. We’ll see.
There’s a difference between getting elected and assuming leadership and I’m still waiting for President Obama to assume leadership. Obama’s management style seems to be that he’s just another member of a team rather than the team captain. America is in a crisis and both the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress are acting like a class full of unruly 10 year olds with a weak substitute teacher.
I am asking you Mr. President today to take charge. I am asking you to be a leader. I am asking you to assume your role as the decider. You are the chief executive and you are in charge. You are the leader but you have yet to assume leadership. A year ago we made you the most powerful man on the planet. We gave you the power and we expect you to use it. Instead you’re like a Jedi Knight who won’t use The Force. You’re like Superman in his role as Clark Kent. You’re like Charlie Brown who just tries to keep kicking the football just to have it jerked away by Congress at the last minute.
It is time, Mr. President, for you to take charge. It’s time to open up a can of whoop-ass and set Congress straight. It’s OK to be reasonable and rational in the way you make decisions but please, if you are passionate about something you can at least raise your voice and show it. Here in real America things are so bad that we are waking up in the middle of the night screaming. We want to hear you scream too. The role of President was given to you. We are still waiting for you to claim it. Be the leader!
Sit down and obey like the sack of meat you are is the only lesson a kid gets from this.
An irate Staten Island mom blasted a grade school principal Wednesday for treating her son like a pint-sized Plaxico Burress after he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun to school.
“This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable,” said Laura Timoney, 44, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch. The school should be embarrassed. This is a common-sense issue.”
Patrick Timoney, 9, was terrified when he was yanked into the principal’s office to discuss the teeny-weeny plastic “weapon.”
“The gun was so little,” the boy said. “I don’t understand why the principal got so upset. I was a little nervous. They made me sign a statement.”
Patrick and a friend were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when he pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer. Boom! Trouble ensued, with Patrick’s mom getting a phone call from Public School 52 Principal Evelyn Mastroianni saying her son had somehow gone from straight A’s to the NRA.
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Laura Timoney remained upset. Her son, a typically eager student, asked to stay home yesterday because he thought the principal was mad at him. The mother said she expects an apology and may sue.
Inequality leads to an excess of what [Samuel] Bowles calls “guard labor.” In a 2007 paper on the subject, he and co-author Arjun Jayadev, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, make an astonishing claim: Roughly 1 in 4 Americans is employed to keep fellow citizens in line and protect private wealth from would-be Robin Hoods.
The job descriptions of guard labor range from “imposing work discipline” — think of the corporate IT spies who keep desk jockeys from slacking off online—to enforcing laws, like the officers in the Santa Fe Police Department paddy wagon parked outside of Walmart.
The greater the inequalities in a society, the more guard labor it requires, Bowles finds. This holds true among US states, with relatively unequal states like New Mexico employing a greater share of guard labor than relatively egalitarian states like Wisconsin.
The problem, Bowles argues, is that too much guard labor sustains “illegitimate inequalities,” creating a drag on the economy. All of the people in guard labor jobs could be doing something more productive with their time — perhaps starting their own businesses or helping to reduce the US trade deficit with China.
Guard labor supports what one might call the beat-down economy. Community Action’s Porter sees it all the time.
“We have based almost everything we have done on the idea that we always need a part of our workforce that is marginalized — that we can call this group into action at any time, pay them nothing and they will do anything that needs to be done,” she says.
More discouraging, perhaps, is the statistical fact that a person born into this workforce has little chance of rising beyond it.
He also believes in what he calls “universal welfare.” RTFA to find out about it.
[Toronto’s] Mildred’s Temple Kitchen is inviting customers to have sex in its bathrooms.
The Valentine’s weekend promotion takes uncomfortable but electrifying sex from the close confines of an airplane and transfers it to the unisex stalls of the Hanna Ave. restaurant. The Liberty Village restaurant proposes its modern bathrooms become one of the “101 places to have sex before you die.”
Mildred’s has always elicited a certain response. One customer, who didn’t want to be named, remembers going to a wedding at the eatery’s old location and seeing a copy of the Kama Sutra in the bathroom.
“They invite it,” said the customer.
This time, the invitation is explicit. On its website, Mildred’s asks: “Have you given any thought to moving beyond the bedroom?
“Check out Mildred’s Sexy Bathrooms throughout the weekend of Big Love. You get the picture.”
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