Hey Dummy! Read this and you'll look smart. You don't have to be smart to impress people -- you just have to fake it. Here's a daily list of must-read articles that will impress your co-workers, wow your friends and make you seem smart....
- Crime hasn't dropped but we don't care. It's true that crime is mysteriously absent from the national discourse as politicians in cities like Philly claim that crime is so bad that al Qaeda operatives wouldn't last a day there.
- Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered two months of industry consultations as the newspapers in France faces a crisis and could possibly be gobbled up by television barons who happen to be close friends of the president.
- If Congress had better marketing, the bailout plan would've been passed by now. At least that's what PR pros are saying. Also, how about calling it a "rescue" rather than a "bailout"?
- Hey, did anyone notice that Detroit got a $25 billion loan recently?
- Dozens of movies halted production yesterday as Bollywood technicians and cameramen went on strike to demand better pay and regulated hours.
- Submit to the randomness! The human brain never developed an adequate probability network and so we are ill-equipped to deal with many modern realities.
