[email_link] Much has been made ado about Facebook’s upcoming $100 billion IPO. In a nutshell: the already-filthy-rich Mark Zuckerberg is about to become filthier-than-filthy rich. I feel filthy just writing about it. Socially-awkward Zuckerberg’s Facebook revolutionized the digital world (and the real world) in immeasurable ways. So let’s celebrate his impending cash-in and take a magical journey…
[email_link] These are all California State Agencies: California Academic Performance Index (API) * California Access for Infants and Mothers * California Acupuncture Board * California Administrative Office of the Courts * California Adoptions Branch * California African American Museum * California Agricultural Export Program * California Agricultural Labor Relations Board * California Agricultural Statistics Service…
[email_link] You’d be surprised at what goes on just below the surface of Los Angeles City Hall, which is mired in years of fiscal cutbacks that at various times have decimated the hours at 73 public libraries, cut maintenance at parks, forced early retirements and now are seriously slowing down fire department emergency response times….
[email_link] When Ron Paul stands up in front of a crowd and explains the fictional-reserve banking system’s unreality, some listen, many shrug and bury their heads. When ZeroHedge does the same, comments are heavy but change is slow to come. But when a 12-year-old girl, in a little over five minutes can explain the total farce that…
[email_link] It is amazing anyone bought based on this b.s. READ THIS: WASHINGTON (AP/ABC7) – The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers’ fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian’s curves or Brooke Burke’s toned tush. Skechers USA Inc. will pay $40 million to settle charges by the…
[email_link] Black and white photos show the evolution of New York City’s subway system from 1901 to 1931 | Mail Online
[email_link] (Reuters) – General Motors Co will stop advertising on Facebook, a move that comes during the same week the social networking website is due to go public. The U.S. automaker confirmed a report by the Wall Street Journal. A source familiar with the automaker’s plans said GM’s marketing executives decided Facebook’s ads had little…
[email_link] As Greece erupts, Italy is moving into the eye of the storm. Its economy is contracting at speeds not seen since the depths of the slump in 2009 as draconian austerity bites, greatly increasing the risk of social revolt and a banking crisis. With the world’s third largest debt after the US and Japan…
[email_link] The NBC Investigative Unit has raised questions about two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million dollars distributed to the University of California San Francisco. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone’s sexual history. Continued…
[email_link] Hundreds of millions of dollars meant to provide a little relief to the nation’s struggling homeowners is being diverted to plug state budget gaps. In a budget proposed this week, California joined more than a dozen states that want to help close gaping shortfalls using money paid by the nation’s biggest banks and earmarked…
