Statistics And Other Lies
Five Biggest Myths About How Americans Vote.
In fact, there is only the tiniest correlation between income and party. The country is not divided into two camps: the poor, who vote Democrat, and the rich, who vote Republican. If you consider your own experiences, this is hardly surprising: Are your rich friends really Republicans and your poor friends Democrats?
The Real Shit - 10 Shitties Books Ever Written
1. What’s Your Poo Telling You?
Economists Say Movie Violence Might Temper the Real Thing
Are movies like “Hannibal” and the remake of “Halloween,” which serve up murder and mutilation as routine fare, actually making the nation safer?
A paper presented by two researchers over the weekend to the annual meeting of the American Economic Association here challenges the conventional wisdom, concluding that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting would-be assailants and keeping them cloistered in darkened, alcohol-free environs.
Colombia Opens Museum Of Laziness
The event features sofas placed in front of televisions, hammocks and beds - anything associated with the avoidance of work.
The idea is to get people during the holiday season to think about laziness and its opposite, extreme work, and perhaps reach some balanced conclusion.
'Stock' Beats 'Sex' on Google China
BEIJING (Reuters)—The names of three banks and the word "stocks" beat "sex" to become four of the most Googled words in China last year, according to a Google China list seen on Thursday.
China Merchants Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Construction Bank ranked second, third and sixth, according to a list supplied by Google China on its website (www.google.cn).
In 2007, the brokers’ customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?
The brokers’ customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not.
That is not the usual way of Wall Street. Two-thirds of a century ago, a best seller asked, “Where are the customers’ yachts?” It noted that somehow the brokers always made money, even when their customers suffered. And so it has been for most of the years since then.
But not in 2007.
Eco-craziness Catches On With Funeral Industry
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- Cynthia Beal wants to be an Oregon cherry tree after she dies. She has everything to make it happen -- a body, a burial site and a biodegradable coffin.
"It is composting at its best," said Beal, owner of The Natural Burial Company, which will sell a variety of eco-friendly burial products when it opens in January, including the Ecopod, a kayak-shaped coffin made out of recycled newspapers.
How Tit Flashing Became A $100 Million A Year Industry
Joseph R. "Joe" Francis (born April 1, 1973) is the founder of Mantra Films, Inc., which produces the Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild DVD series. Francis, who grew up in Laguna Beach, California, graduated from the University of Southern California in 1995 with a degree in Business Administration. He also completed USC’s Entrepreneur Program.
Wacky Records - Man Buys A New Truck With Spare Change He Saved For 13 Years
(AP) FRANKFORT, Ind. - Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off.
Brant, 70, used more than $25,000 in change to help buy a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday _ 13 years after buying another truck with spare change.
"(The old truck) didn’t have four-wheel drive, and living in the country, I figured I better get a new one to help get me through the snow," he said.
Wacky Records - Woman Spends 3 Days In Walmart
A Wal-Mart shopper overstayed her welcome at the 24-hour store in Lilburn. Gwinnett County police escorted the shopper home after she stayed there for three days eating and sleeping inside the store.
