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Fortune 40: The best stocks to retire on
Isn’t it time to throw in the towel on stock picking, Fortune? How about some advice that regular people (you know… the kind that might read your magazine) could use without getting themselves in trouble?
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I’m just catching up with Nico Pitney’s live-blog of the ongoing protests in Iran. (Funny enough, I’m seeing him being interviewed by Rachel Maddow in a repeat of today’s show right now.)
In his 2:21PM ET entry, Nico reports a reader’s communication with family in Iran, an excerpt of which follows:
He said that probably half the stores are closed, but that unemployment is 40% anyway, so its not like protestors have anything better to do. These people are mostly young, unemployed, have poor access to higher education, and no foreseeable future prospects.
My thoughts while reading this were (in this order):
Twitter was all aflutter yesterday with criticism of CNN for its lack of coverage of the on-going protests in Tehran (see #cnnfail and
#IranElection on Twitter, also this article from the NY Times).
Howard Kurtz, of CNN’s Reliable Sources offered a defense CNN via Twitter itself:
Maybe CNN should have taken CNNi feed last evening. But it was middle of the night in Iran, and even journalists have to rest sometimes.
Howard Kurtz, via Twitter
If you ask me, CNN should take CNNi feed every day, all day(*).
(*) Except for the cricket scores. They can leave those out. 
The other day I took this photo of a rabbit I saw munching on some grass at the local Discovery Park here in Seattle and uploaded it to Flickr.
In the first day the photo was up, it got about 17 views, and has stabilized at 22 views.
I don’t normally get a whole lot of views on my Flickr photos, so for me that’s quite a bit. I’m not sure where they were all coming from, but apparently Flickr users have a special place in their hearts for rabbits. The poor feral cat I caught wandering down the path is only sitting at 3 views (granted, it’s not as good a photo).
Don’t get me wrong, MDs are sure smart and successful and all, but it just seems like whenever there’s a crazy idea being touted by someone with an impressive degree, it’s a physician.
Don’t quit your day job, Dr. Lanza.
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
Over at DiscoverMagazine.com, Chris Mooney takes issue with this blog post by Jerry Coyne on what Coyne calls “accomodationism” of religion in stances by the National Academy of Science and the National Center for Science Education, two leading scientific organizations in the US.
I have to side with Coyne on this one. If anyone’s attack is unfair, it is Mooney’s…
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To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush’s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity.
Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters throughout history. They detail how to fashion a collar for slamming a prisoner against a wall, exactly how many days he can be kept without sleep (11), and what, specifically, he should be told before being locked in a box with an insect — all to stop just short of having a jury decide that these acts violate the laws against torture and abusive treatment of prisoners.
Editorial – The Torturers’ Manifesto – NYTimes.com
Someone remind me what we’re fighting for.
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