Amazon, quickly becoming the largest retailer in the world, has some of the largest storage and shipping warehouses on the planet. Through a process known as chaos storage, Amazon warehouse employees put new goods onto the closest empty shelf and then record a unique bar code for both the shelf and the good. The result is the beautiful organized chaos of Amazon’s warehouses:
‘Atta boy, Bill. There’s no such thing as seizing the “anxiety-ridden and religiously intolerant Christian majority” zeitgeist too early.
If the ozone layer were made of sugar, fat and additives, Americans would be paving the way to maintain it.
Source: Political Humor
The Article: Truth About Jobs by Paul Krugman in The New York Times.
The Text: If anyone had doubts about the madness that has spread through a large part of the American political spectrum, the reaction to Friday’s better-than expected report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics should have settled the issue. For the immediate response of many on the right — and we’re not just talking fringe figures — was to cry conspiracy.
Leading the charge of what were quickly dubbed the “B.L.S. truthers” was none other than Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric, who posted an assertion on Twitter that the books had been cooked to help President Obama’s re-election campaign. His claim was quickly picked up by right-wing pundits and media personalities.
It was nonsense, of course. Job numbers are prepared by professional civil servants, at an agency that currently has no political appointees. But then maybe Mr. Welch — under whose leadership G.E. reported remarkably smooth earnings growth, with none of the short-term fluctuations you might have expected (fluctuations that reappeared under his successor) — doesn’t know how hard it would be to cook the jobs data.
With all those southern states out of the Union, just imagine how much fiercer Scripps’ National Spelling Bee will be. Or should I say ‘feircer’.
