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Posts from ‘December, 2004’
Hardball side of Sears gets pass from prosecutor
Sears, Roebuck and Co. has cut a deal with prosecutors in Travis, County, Texas. The giant retailer won’t face charges for giving Republicans $25,000, apparently in violation of a state law against corporations pumping money into politics. Sears, in return, has agreed to beef up its policies against violating any state’s laws and will give [...]
Firm names top-10 PR screwups of 2004
Week 52 being prime time for year-end lists, Oh!pinion herein shares the 10th annual Fineman PR Top 10 PR Blunders List, created, the company says, “as a reminder of how critical public relations is to businesses and organizations.” 1. Rumsfeld’s Abu Ghraib Scandal 2. National Brawlers Association 3. Rathergate 4. Target Plays Scrooge 5. Janet’s [...]
Bloggers ruminate on their own medium, too
As the blogosphere expands exponentially, adding the eyes, ears and intellects of more and more people around the world, more is written about what blogging really is and what it really means in the larger scheme of things. Like the blogosphere itself, this introspection about a phenomenon in progress includes a lot of static amid [...]
Professor hopes to make Everest a sex-free zone
There’s something whimsically quixotic and oddly idealistic about Professor Ralph Pettman’s quest. In a world beset by war, terrorism, disease, poverty, ignorance and, just now, horrendous death and destruction from an epic natural disaster, Pettman hopes you’ll take to heart an issue that is, well, more than a little different. The Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z., [...]
Woman says our diplomats behaved terribly
The State Department should investigate Faye Wachs’ story about diplomatic slackers in Bangkok. If found to be true, consequences should be swift and severe.
Everything’s big in Texas, including the lapses
Needless to say, but what the heck, Texas state gummint is in the hands of a good ol’ boy cast in the Bush mold, Gov. Rick Perry. This helps make understandable why there’s a scandal in the highly sensitive field of nursing.
Business, labor selfishly favor lax border security
Quote: Economic interests are dominating the discussion of immigration reform.
To spammers’ customers: Way to go, suckers
Seems P.T. Barnum was right: there’s one born every minute — sucker, that is. The latest evidence comes from a PC World newsletter article, “Holiday Online Shopping Trends Emerge,” in which we learn the benign news that consumers swarmed to the Internet in large numbers in November and December, boosting sellers’ revenues to as much [...]
Why should Iraq election be any different?
“A year ago there were plenty of good proposals that could have avoided the worst of this fiasco. The best of them made use of geographical precincts, like an American congressional election. Under a system like that, there would have been plenty of predominantly Sunni precincts that would have elected Sunni representatives regardless of whether [...]
