Here’s a picture if you don’t believe me. These particular bears are in the Leipzig zoo, and they have lost their fur. Experts have no explanation of what happened so far.
Archive for November 5th, 2009
Bald Bears Look Very Weird
Posted in Science, tagged Animals, Bears, Science, Zoos on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creative Accounting
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, tagged America, economy, Politics, recession, stimulus, stimulus bill, stimulus package, stimulus spending, Unemployment on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s another article finding significant errors in the counting of “jobs created or saved” by the stimulus bill. In this case, one agency reported saving almost twice as many jobs as actually existed. Even more galling, another government spokesman tried to defend the practice of counting the raises given to government employees as somehow equivalent [...]
Baseball Is Boring
Posted in sports, tagged baseball, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, sports, World Series on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, the Yankees won the World Series! What a shock! The Yankees and other big-market teams have more money than other teams, pick up the big-dollar free agents and assemble de facto All Star teams, and win championships. Ho hum. Seriously, does anyone find major league baseball interesting anymore? What possible pleasure is there in [...]
It Takes Crust
Posted in Politics, The Economy, tagged budgets, California, California budget deficit, economy, Politics, recession, Tax Withholding, taxes on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whenever someone would do or say something that was outlandish and grossly overreaching, my grandmother would say: “That takes crust.” I think she would have used that phrase to characterize the latest scheme developed by California lawmakers to try to close a huge budget shortfall. They have announced that they will increase, by 10 percent, [...]
