Gays Go Down on the UK Credit Crisis
A recruiter in the U.K. is blaming the lack of gay job candidates in the financial industry on the credit crunch. Yup, I could just stop writing right there.
According to the Financial Times, a study conducted by Joslin Rowe Associates attributes a drop in openly gay applicants for city jobs in London to the fact [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under News Blogger.
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Vanity Thy Name is Haircut
I don’t know how it is with women, but you will never learn more about a guy’s self-image then sending him to Supercuts to get a haircut. Supercuts, and various other like stylist chains, pray on men’s vanity worse than Bowflex commercials. They create an atmosphere where every fellow gets 15 minutes of [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under Society and Culture.
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Who Doesn’t Love the Fall?
The unofficial marker of autumn is upon us with the start of the next season of Monday Night Football (the Monday after Labor Day), the start of a new semester of classes, and another birthday. Of course, fall is also the start of a new television season, after enduring so much new summer filler they [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Society and Culture, Television.
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Friday B.S.: Thief and a Liar.
I just spent 20 minutes looking for the tray to my printer. How, you ask, does one lose a printer tray? Well, it is detachable so at least in that respect, it could be removed from the vicinity of the printer (a prank perhaps or theft?) But let’s be real, that’s weird thing to steal.
Nothing [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Friday BS.
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Beer Cures Leukemia
I attended a charity event to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for cancer research tonight. The event, hosted at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street in downtown Boston, was a beer sampling of Beer Works’ custom brews. The night started with a cocktail hour and a compelling speech from a [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2008 under Society and Culture.
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Cascade
Encarta Cascade. science: a succession of things such as chemical reactions or components in an electrical circuit, each of which activates, affects, or determines the next
Cause and effect is one my favorite topics when I want to wax philosophically about the nature of the universe and wonder at the cascade of events that leads from [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Feature Articles.
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