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Overall, there's some good stuff in here: smile, mentor someone, drive slower, conserve gas. Steer clear of the last 20 seconds, though. Fifty celebrities pledging in unison to serve our new President from an elaborate Brady Bunch grid is creepy. A little cultish even...
...actually work in favor of Japanese businesses, making acquisitions more affordable as the market caps of their competitors decline. And banks, even with some financial constraints, are seeing lending increase, with growth of 3.7% in December from a year earlier. Positive news, to be sure, but not quite the stuff of a new bull market...
...Wyeth went back to his painting. He had run out of an important color; so he took two tubes, squeezed some paint from each of them and then he poured some yellow liquid into the whole mess. Wondering, I asked him what the yellow stuff was. 'That's egg yolk,' he replied. 'Have you ever noticed that if you drop an egg and don't clean it up immediately it sticks and you can't get it off? It does the same thing in pictures. Also if you use yolk the picture will...
...opportunity to offer some tongue-in-cheek criticism. "This is the same sort of bait-and-switch we see from House Democrats on important policy matters," wrote Boehner spokesman Michael Steel in an E-mail. "They promise something new and different, and then the same old tired, annoying stuff pops up. The American people (and the Speaker's cats) deserve better...
...hard to spend a trillion dollars in a hurry if you don't want to buy stupid stuff. "We keep hearing we need to spend more. On what?" a transition aide asked. Obama's latest economic report predicted at least three more years of fairly high unemployment even if the stimulus succeeds, so speed can't be the only criterion. Democrat Jim Oberstar of Minnesota, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has suggested that shovel-ready should apply to projects that can begin within a year, not just 90 days. This would give a real boost...