Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Mahablog » Stossel: Stupid on Steroids – “No private company ever would have built the interstate highway system, or the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Hoover Dam. Or the transcontinental railroad, for that matter. Would not have happened. Yet building those things eventually made a whole lot of business enterprise possible that would not have been possible otherwise.” And any company that tried to do so would have its CEO outsted by the Board, or its Board sued by the stockholders. Because the profit-and-loss justification that Stossel writes about isn’t for society, or for decades-long investment payback, but for how things will look at the end of the Fiscal Year, or at the end of this Quarter. Which may (or may not) be a great way to run a company, but is a terrible way to run a country.
- Obama clears BP for new Gulf oil drilling – So (a) the environmentalists will have fits, (b) the oil companies will realize they can have “one [catastrophic] incident” and still do business, (c) BP can continue on as it has, and (d) the GOP will still attack Obama as anti-oil, anti-jobs, and pro-Big Government. So this is a good thing, Mr President … why?
- Those Who Don’t Remember History . . . – When GOP candidates talk about getting the government “off our backs,” one has to ask whose backs they are most on … and why.
- Herman Cain Says Electrocuting Immigrants Was A Joke – At best, it shows a tone-deafness that calls into (further) question his suitability as a candidate. When you tell a misunderstood joke as the CEO, everyone laughs nervously. When you tell one as the President, some people rush off to follow the order, others get ready to react to it.
- The Taj Mahal Is Collapsing – Yikes! It’s definitely on my list to see, but no idea when I will make it back to India to do so.
- BlackBerry cuts made roads safer, police say (The National) – That’s … a very interesting, inadvertent experimental result there. I’ll have to mention it in a company “safety moment” some time.
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