“Here’s a creepy story. A guy is flying on a long flight. Six-hour flight, British Airways. Half way through the flight, he realizes the person sitting next to him is dead. Long flight. Six hours. Person in the seat next to him, dead. I say, ‘Hey, count your blessings.’”
Letterman Monday night.
AAA customer service rep on the phone yesterday: “Is there another city nearby? I can’t find Tucson.”
(That’s because it was listed as the West Tucson and East Tucson offices.)
Arizona MVD today: “We need to have his signature. Send him a form to sign and have notarized.”
(I signed an affidavit and the car title and both were notarized by MVD itself last month! I guess you needed to sign a statement saying that your signature on the affidavit that you signed in front of them was your signature.)
And don’t even get me started on Verizon.
Jeffrey Toobin had a good summary of the Plame-Libby business in last week’s New Yorker. If you been trying to piece it all together, this will help.
According to Washington State Minuteman leader Bob Baker, “No nation has ever succeeded with two different languages.”
. . . [W]e need to figure out who’s going to gently deliver the heartbreaking news of their “failure” to quadralingual Switzerland, China (with a minimum of six), and India — which recognizes a breathtaking 23 official languages.
Or Canada.
Where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.
Dan Neil, such a delight to read, speculates about Toyota. Is the Yaris its tipping point? He begins:
TOYOTA Motor Corp. is the colossus of roads. It is, or soon will be, the largest car company in the world. Its worldwide sales are up year after year, as are its profits, as are its stock prices. In the U.S., the world’s largest car market, Toyota’s sales rose an astonishing 12.5% in 2006, grabbing even more market share from the oxygen-starved domestics. To meet the demand, the company is putting down factories and expanding facilities in this country like it was playing automotive Monopoly.
The company builds Lexus, the best-selling luxury brand in the U.S. It builds the Prius, the hybrid shuttlecraft with more green cachet than macrobiotic tofu. It created Scion, which in three years went from a Scrabble word to the last word in Gen-Y branding.
So is this the company that can do no wrong? Not really.
I give you the Toyota Yaris, a surprisingly routine and summarily undelightful B-class subcompact that feels as mailed-in as if it had a stamp on it.
“You know, I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it in the past. I have to find out what my position was.”
John McCain
Oh, Senator, you’ve taken every position on every issue.
10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World. Great photos.
… of actor Karl Malden. The Oscar-winner (supporting actor in A Streetcar Named Desire) is 95. Malden was also nominated for supporting actor for On the Waterfront. He played Omar Bradley in Patton and was Detective Lt. Mike Stone in Streets of San Francisco (with Michael Douglas as his partner).
… of pantomimist Marcel Marceau. He’s 84.
… of Stephen Sondheim. The composer-lyricist (West Side Story) is 77.
… of actor William Shatner. Captain Kirk is 76.
… of musician George Benson. He’s 64.
… of broadcaster Wolf Blitzer. He’s 59.
… of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The composer (Cats, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera) is 59.
… of sportscaster Bob Costas. He’s 55.
… of Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon. She’s 31.
This from the Daily Howler:
In today’s Post, Dana Milbank captures one small part of Inhofe’s disordered performance:
MILBANK (3/22/07): Inhofe informed Gore that scientists are “radically at odds with your claims.” Displaying a photograph of icicles in Buffalo, Inhofe demanded: “How come you guys never seem to notice it when it gets cold?”Could Inhofe possibly be this stupid?
Simple answer: Yes.
I did some research. I googled for “high yield savings account” and “ING direct” and “HSBC Direct“. I followed promising links (and ads) from the search results. As of March 19th, here are the offers that I was able to find with minimal digging. All of these accounts are FDIC insured.
Details at Get Rich Slowly.
Walt Mossberg says Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws To Protect Consumers. Hear. Hear.
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An article in today’s Wall Street Journal asserts that, while various life skills seem to deteriorate as people get older, our skill at making personal-finance decisions doesn’t peak until the ripe age of 53. “Baseball players are said to peak in their late 20’s,” writes David Wessel. “Chess players in their mid-30’s. Theoretical economists in their mid-40’s. But in ordinary life, there’s an obvious tension between sheer smarts, often seen in the supple minds of the young, and experience, which comes only with age.”
There’s more at Freakonomics Blog.
“No, that isn’t the rule of — you’re not making the rules. You used to when you did this. You don’t do this anymore. Elections have consequences.”
Senator Boxer to Senator Inhofe during Gore testimony.
A must-read on the U.S. attorneys business from Josh Marshall.
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