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  • Moneyball in Law Firms

    Moneyball is moving onto another major-league diamond: Big Law, where law firm chiefs—under pressure from clients to cut costs—are re-engineering law firm management, much as the Oakland Athletics’ Billy Beane did for baseball. Exploding salaries, frequent roster changes and emphasis on short-term performance in a tight economy are just some of the sports-world realities confronting…

  • Leno: Obama’s ‘Encouraging More Americans to Give Up Looking for Work’ to Bring Down Unemployment

    Talking about how the unemployment rate only fell last month because of the number of people that dropped out of the labor force, Leno quipped that the President is “encouraging more Americans to give up looking for work so the numbers will come down a little bit” via NewsBusters.org. Ouch!  Video at the link.  

  • Dark Energy Camera — Science Rocks!!

    The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe. The Dark Energy Survey’s 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years. via BBC News. Very  v e r y  cool.

  • Biggest Celebrity Salary? Take a Wild Guess

    You’ll never guess.  Really.  You won’t. Take a wild guess as to who it is.  I’ll give you a hint… it’s a sign of our society going over the cliff. The answer is here: Biggest Celebrity TV Salaries – Business Insider.

  • College Suspends Obama Pledge Professor

    UPDATE:  Last week we heard about the college prof. who made her students pledge to vote for Obama. A college professor has been placed on leave after she allegedly forced her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Obama in the upcoming elections. via Campus Reform. Justice?  Probably.

  • ‘Warp drive’ May be Feasible

    A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.  … Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back…

  • Did Joe McGinniss Condemn an Innocent Man?

    MacDonald signed a contract giving McGinniss exclusive rights to his life story, and so McGinniss was given unprecedented access to the defense team – living with them, working with them, eating with them. But when the guilty verdict came down, McGinniss did a one-eighty on them. Apparently, falsely convicted men don’t make for good books.…

  • Why It’s Impossible to Run a Business Without Breaking the Law

    Shakedown in Chicago is commonplace.  It’s not just at Pete’s. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMHxcfQfL_M]

  • CTU Deal Will Lead to School Closings & Layoffs

    Four years of up-to-the-limit property tax increases for Chicago homeowners and businesses. Closing scores of under-enrolled and underperforming schools. Thousands of layoffs of teachers and other school staff. More cuts to the central office. That’s what could await the Chicago Public Schools, thanks to the tentative agreement between teachers and the district that is expected…

  • Who’s a Hero?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JaFRPbTpA8

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