Ann Arbor based-Borders Group bankruptcy filing "inevitable" says U of M biz prof - AnnArbor.com
I guess Borders Books isn't "too big to fail".
Jackson Cit-Pat columnist busted for bringing Mexican sea turtle skull into the to U.S. - MLive (Jackson)
Brad Flory must think he's living in a free country or something. Heh.
Low Sperm Count: Why Male Fertility is Falling - Daily Beast
"Last month, the European Science Foundation issued an ominous report warning that at least one in five men age 18 to 25 is "subfertile." The group of scientists asserted that sperm counts and sperm quality have been dropping consistently in the developed world for the last 50 years. Men just aren’t producing little swimmers like they used to."
The "global elites" are disconnected from today's world - The Atlantic (via iSteve)
"For the super-elite, a sense of meritocratic achievement can inspire high self-regard, and that self-regard—especially when compounded by their isolation among like-minded peers—can lead to obliviousness and indifference to the suffering of others." After all, as this oligarch pointedly observed " 'If a man is not an oligarch, something is not right with him,' ... 'Everyone had the same starting conditions, everyone could have done it.' ”
The best thing would be to have 'em all shot. And like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch quoted above noted, it's not like these guys are unique or indispensable, eh?
The American Conservative a magazine founded by Pat Buchanan sure does feature a lot of not-so-conservative writers. This may or may not be a good thing. Tom Engelhardt of Tomdispatch and the Nation Institute for example. Of course Ron Unz, considered by many to be a RINO, is the new owner/publisher of the magazine, so there's that.
Don Was on iTunes and the death of liner notes - Detroit Metro Times
"I’m at a loss to explain Apple’s ambivalence about upholding the quality and value of the product that has fueled the success of their hardware. For those of us who grew up in Detroit, this kind of corporate cockiness should have a certain ring of familiarity: It’s an early symptom of the same shortsightedness that brought down the Big Three automakers and sent the city into an economic tailspin." Maybe it's a sign that we're becoming (have become?) a "post-literate" society?
