Bizzy’s AM Coffee Biz-Econ-Life Links (050906)
Free Links:
- This is a few days old, but it illustrates a point — Ankle Biting Pundits notes the usual demographic flaws in the latest round of “Bush’s numbers are in the tank” polls. 18% of the respondents aren’t voters, skewed beyond reasonableness toward Democrats, the non-religious, the young, lower incomes, urban areas, non-whites. It’s obvious that the people doing these polls know they’re going to be skewered, but they simply don’t care because the majority of people won’t be aware of the skewering. This is flat-out journalistic malpractice.
- Return of the Conservatives catches a CNN report quotes Glenn Koocher, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) saying that parents who don’t want their very young kids taught about homosexuality in public school suffer from “narcissistic activist personality disorder.” The parents’ kids are at this point about 6 or 7 years old. With all due respect, Mr. Koocher, what’s the bleeping hurry? And the open contempt is not only astounding; in my opinion it gives away their game plan (takes off the MASC, so to speak). This is all about what MASC wants, not what parents want.
- By “Unwritten,” He Meant That HE Hadn’t Written Them — Yet another one from last week (that’s what following elections will do to your timeliness), but what a doozy: Raytheon CEO William H. Swanson was docked $1 million in pay by the company’s Board of Directors because he plagiarized a 1944 book when he wrote “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.” It would be nice if the blogger who caught him would get a cut of that, but that’s hoping for too much.
- The Ohio Bar Association Embarrasses Itself – It goes after a basically penniless Akron father and family that successfully went to court to get their autistic son the level of educational support he’s entitled to. The “problem” is, Brian Wood is not a lawyer. The horrors! The Bar has stood down, for now, using some of the most tired excuses imaginable, after being exposed.
- Fidel Castro is mad that Forbes says his net worth is $900 million — He says he’s worth nothing. Who am I to argue?
