Archive | February 3, 2009

Every time you open a soup kitchen, God kills a maître d', or: The treasury that loots itself, loves itself

by Aengus Cargo You’ve likely, at some point in your life, been in the company of someone who says something akin to, “I don’t give money to panhandlers. They’re just going to spend it on drugs and/or booze.” “They do this for a living. That man probably just bungs it in a savings account at […]

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On music dying in a cornfield outside Mason City, Iowa, in 1959, etc.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that famously became known as “the day the music died.” For those not consigned to the generational hell that is Baby Boomerdom, on this day 50 years ago a small plane carrying three important rock stars of their time – Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. […]

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Eu – not – my – mom

by Dawn Farmer In a June 1st, 2003 article by Catherine O’Mahony, published by The Sunday Business Post Online, Joey Mason, founder and managing director of Eumom is quoted as saying, “This is really going to make us a player. For advertisers, we want to get higher quality interaction with the women they are targeting. […]

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