Monthly Archives: May 2014

“Golf is, like, way hard!”

Worried that their sports’ demographic consists of the 55 and above crowd, the movers and shakers of golf are trying to determine why those under 35 are not taking up the sport. According to the New York Times, the answer … Continue reading

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“Police Chief, Rabbi Among 71 Nabbed in Porn Bust”

Add to this headline that a Scout leader was also arrested and you wonder if it’s all made up to see if we are really reading the newspaper. That’s the front-page story from USA Today, May 22, 2014. We are … Continue reading

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Feds Investigating New York’s Anticorruption Panel for Possible Corruption

Disbanded by Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 29, 2014, the governor-created anticorruption panel (aka the Moreland Commission), has had its records subpoenaed. The U.S. Attorney’s office has collected computers, Blackberries, documents, and PIN messages. What more need be said?

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“I will tell you, my friends, I have seen this scourge of terror across the planet, and so have you. They don’t offer a health care plan, they don’t offer schools. They just tell people, ‘You have to behave the way we tell you to,’ and they will punish you if you don’t.”

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, on terrorist group, Boko Harem, the group responsible for kidnapping 300 young girls because, well, they went to school. Imagine! Terrorist groups without a health plan. On the list of the Barometer’s ethical concerns … Continue reading

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“If making money were a function of analysis, the whole world would be run by 28-year-old M.B.A.s. But it isn’t. It’s run by men and women who’ve got enough experience and judgment to look at all the facts and the analysis and then sit back and say, ‘Well, do I feel lucky?'”

Ron Kaplan, CEO of Trex, as quoted in the New York Times, May 4, 2014, p. BU2.

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