At the Momfy Blog, we pride ourselves on asking the tough questions and delving into the issues that matter for our loyal readers: in today’s post you will be forced to look deep inside yourself and answer a straightforward yet vexing question. Here’s the poll: Do you choose Eternal Happiness or a clean kitchen? We probably … Continue reading »
A flight attendant career is glamorous! Or so I thought! I admit, I signed up for the glamour eighteen years ago, but I quickly learned that most of the glamor was gone from this industry. I was on my second trip as a new hire flight attendant, my uniform was crisp, my hair was pulled back in … Continue reading »
To catch a rabbit, try a carrot. Mice? Cheese. For man, it turns out beer works best. And the promise of a free case of brew led to substantially less freedom for 19 elusive British suspects. An undercover operation led by the Derbyshire Constabulary offered a sudsy special to suspected criminals who had slipped through officers’ hands. … Continue reading »
A Zimbabwe man has told a court that the prostitute he hired turned into a donkey overnight, and now he is “seriously in love.” Sunday Moyo, 28, was caught having sex with a donkey early Sunday morning, according to the New Zimbabwe news website. While appearing in court on bestiality charges, he told the magistrate a … Continue reading »
From an article by the New Yorker’s John Cassidy The latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well covered in the Times and elsewhere: 46 million Americans living under the poverty line in 2010, the highest number since the Commerce Department started … Continue reading »
Business guru and famous super-rich person Warren Buffett made waves last month with an op-ed in The New York Times, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” calling for higher taxes for him and other obscenely wealthy Americans. He argued that the nation’s very well-off are not sacrificing enough in these hard times and enjoying a tax rate much … Continue reading »
There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Thus, to the degree that access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally … Continue reading »
The new Boeing 747-8F is one majestic aircraft. Along with all the majesticness (yes I just made that a word) comes a lot of weight. The 747-8F can take off weighing nearly one million pounds and for the flight tests, Boeing needs to make sure the aircraft can successfully complete an aborted landing, fully loaded. … Continue reading »
Chart of the Day: Income-Based GDP Daniel Indiviglio | Jun 9, 2011 An often-heard complaint about GDP is that the number reported is calculated by adding up all the money spent over some period of time, instead of the amount earned. Some economists complain that using spending to measure GDP doesn’t provide as accurate a result … Continue reading »
Fortune Magazine // September 27, 1999 Your intrepid blog host & writer was featured in the 1999 edition of Fortune Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 issue, with the headline “The Hundred Thousandaire”… read on to see why it was appropriate given the timing of the issue. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266144/index.htm
