“20 Impossible Interview Questions From Facebook, Goldman And Citigroup”

Good thing I’m not looking for a job at these places. Samples: Citigroup: “What’s your strategy at table tennis?” Towers Watson: “Estimate how many planes there are in the sky.” Jane Street Capital: “What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?”

 


The circumcision ban on the San Francisco ballot is driven by blatant antisemitism

I often say I’m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that’s not really true. I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I’m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I’ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising […]

 






“McCain: Palin Can Beat Obama”

The Hill reports on Mac’s remarks, without comment, to get their lefty commenters all riled up and it works beautifully. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has said he thinks Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in next year’s presidential election, but he’s far from certain that she will actually jump into the race. The GOP’s standard-bearer […]

 

Italian Seismologists Considered at Fault After Earthquake

As moonbattery corrodes our concepts of justice and responsibility, ever more criminals roam free. Society compensates for this by finding bizarre reasons to punish the innocent: Earthquake prediction can be a grave, and faulty [yuk yuk] science, and in the case of Italian seismologists who are being tried for the manslaughter of the people who […]

 




In their defense, I haven’t released a spending plan yet, either.

Maybe I should, though. My spending plan would make Paul Ryan’s look downright moderate. Give the libs something else to shoot at for a while, and take some of the pressure off him. You think Ryan’s pushing old folks off the pier? Once they see my plan, they’ll get up out of those chairs and […]

 

Social Security deficits now ‘permanent’

Just thought you’d like to know: Social Security will run a permanent yearly deficit when looking at the program’s tax revenues compared to what it must pay out in benefits, the program’s trustees said Friday… But never fear! The trustees stressed that exhaustion of the trust funds doesn’t mean the programs will stop paying all […]

 




Perpetual War

I think readers on both sides of the political divide will find this article fascinating. I know I did. The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades. Despite frequent opposition by the party not controlling the presidency and often that of the American public, the […]

 

The AFL-CIO Pulls Obama’s Marionette Strings

Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO once said that he talks to the White House “daily.” Although Trumka looks like the sort of who watches reality television and votes numerous times for nameless starlets in dancing competitions, we have to assume that he’s not discussing his preferred winners with the President. Rather, we have to […]

 

The Great Jambalaya of Frauds

A good line from former Sen. Hollings about the fraud that is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: “The public fully supported enactment of hefty new Social Security taxes in 1983 to ensure the retirement program’s long-term solvency and credibility. The promise was that today’s huge surpluses would be set safely aside in a trust fund […]

 



Reactions

In about a week and a half, Our First Holy Divine Man-God-Boy-King President has acquired and released a form of identification, and then claimed credit for dispatching the most wanted man in the entire world. His is a unique case in which these achievements are roughly equivalent. I’m ready to take a new approach on […]

 

So: if Obama made up the whole “we got bin Laden” story to boost his poll numbers — and I’m not saying he did, but if he did…

…then it didn’t work: President Obama received little boost from the Navy SEALs killing of bin Laden. Some numbers: Gallup: 6 points (46% to 52%); Rasmussen: no bounce (49%); Quinnipiac: 6 points (46% to 52%); CNN: 4 points (48% to 52%). The “bounce” was bigger if the poll asked specifically about terror or Afghanistan, but […]