Tag Archives: wealth

If Blankfein wants a bigger bonus, he should stock up on Ed Hardy.

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About 10 years ago there was a debate in Canada about whether Canadian NHL teams should receive a subsidy to be able to compete with big-market American teams. As soon as somebody came up with the soundbite “no millions for millionaires”, the plan promptly died. This makes the phrase a remarkable innovation that you should keep handy in… Read the rest

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Guy Fox | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

A Handful of Dust

…I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

— The Wasteland
I generally ignore Foursquare check-ins on Twitter, but this one from the prominent New York venture/super angel investor Roger Ehrenberg caught… Read the rest

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Dave Pinsen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments

WSJ to Women: Only Have Sex With Winners

An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?”, manages to reassert every outdated and dangerous notion of sex that died with the petticoat and the advent of coed colleges.
On its surface, the article addresses the ambivalence of the “liberated generation” towards the sexual attitudes of its children. But this ambivalence… Read the rest

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Pastabagel | Tagged , , , , | 80 Comments