They got in! My kids got into our first choice school. Both of them. Woo fucking hoo! I am seriously having a hard time taking it all in. I can't remember ever being this happy or proud. On Saturday, my husband and I were on different flights home from Hawaii. So when I got home, I picked up our car...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

A lively discussion has been taking place among commenters on Robert Reich's blog. We are fortunate to have there an international array of people who are in a position to do some comparative analyses among different countries. In particular we are fortunate to have Frank Thomas, an American exp...

From 3 PM to 5 PM on March 14 (Saturday), I'll be giving a talk at the Toronto College of Technology to a group of approximately 80 newcomers to Canada and people re-entering the IT field. With that in mind, I proposed the following talk: Make a Name for Yourself: Creating Opportunities in Diff...

President Barack Obama said he backs the idea of merity pay the best school teachers, a position that his union supporters have fought. Here, the full text of his prepared remarks: Every so often, throughout our history, a generation of Americans bears the responsibility of seeing this country throu...

There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Art of Rawking SxSW Interactive This post is part of a series, head over to the SxSW Interactive Tips page to read all of the posts in this series (in intended order). Image via Wikipedia Ever since our forefathers, the very first geeks sat up from their r...

Bruce Tulgan published his first book about young people in the workplace when he was 27 and arguing on behalf of his own generation. After fifteen years of working with business leaders in companies ranging from Aetna to Wal-Mart, he felt this was the right time to present business leaders, manager...

Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned Posted: March 08, 2009 6:54 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2009 WorldNetDaily   From Wikipedia's Barack Obama page Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by ...

This is Week 10 of a 52-week project/experiment in DIY marketing. Armed with nothing but a copy of the 2009 Grow Your Business Marketing Plan + Calendar and my bare wits, I'm applying the skills you need to grow a business in real time, day by day, and reporting on them week by week. You can fol...