True

metaphor

for a government...

Portuguese Ecomomic Growth Policies

that's about it....

Hello? Merkozy? there's a bit of a problem....

ask tough questions

Reality Construction

older times older products...

flabbergasting

the two Americas

Extinction!

not a great heritage left to our children....

sure thing

why not?

Free Tibet

My choice for president

Next time

"You are so fortunate to be in that wheel chair"........ the competitive frame has this power...to bring out the idiot inside us.....

The touch

Great stuff

collective action

What is good for

Balckwater is good for the US?

just another day at campus

this time a girl shot colleagues ....

uri

Liquid

Genius

single handed

nothing learned from Nick Leeson...a hell of a control system collapses .....

unintended consequences

or how systems might produce positive feedback loops........and the best intentions derive in crazy consequences

Gone

made his path of troubled genius

Old times

The princess

Mary Anning

tactics

play the game and move on do not make waves....

amused

what kids do

alternative views of the world we're in

One class of individuals is swimming in a record ocean of cash. Another class of people is drowning in record financial failure. The two are tied to each other in a web of fraud and unrestrained greed.

Mr. Piano

ahhhhh

I could start one of these sites........ more on the side of customer treated like dog shit....

Engineering

that was the core business... it seems that banking has its flaws...

A new opportunity

for psychiatrists.... "in love with a router"????'.... the rethoric and the semantics of business get weird .... one of these days there will be a marriage between someone and his refrigerator designed by Apple perhaps....

indeed

100%

or more... bulletproof .......great for war zones

the series

White House Janitor Resigns"... poor Bush....

on the road again

long ago

an anachronism

to be terminated...

It's not what you say it's the way that you say it...

.....these are genuine clips from council complaint letters.

1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has
fungus growing in it.
2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't
take it anymore.
3. It's the dogs mess that I find hard to swallow.
4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my
knob off.
5. I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle, very badly, when he put
his foot in the hole in his back passage.
6. And their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against my
fence.
7. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I
think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.
8. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand?
9. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.
10. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path? My wife tripped
and fell on it, yesterday, and now she is pregnant.
11. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
12. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain
filthy.
13. I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.
14. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is
cleared.
15. Will you please send a man to look at my water; it is a funny colour and
not fit to drink.
16. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
17. I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at
6am his cock wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me.
18. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is
unsightly and dangerous.
19. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third,
so please send someone round to do something about it.
20. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do
something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.
21. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my
wife.
22. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times, but I still
have no satisfaction.

God Opportunities

for business are everywhere......

total recall

soon we will be totally "databased"...

it happens to our finest

but even if the movies do supply some clues and cues ....

heart of the moon

paradoxical bind

the quest for cheaper and cheaper labour driving costs down and profits up leads to interesting problems .......a contradiction between short and longer term objectives indeed...what one fails to see is how any other group would sove this little conundrum...

avoidable deaths....

it is always easier with someone else's sons and daughters....

history

is a drag.... and it has the strange tendency to reemerge in very inconvenient times...

EOS