Mexicana Airlines suspended operations today. It’s amazing it lasted this long: The investors brought into Mexicana last week mentioned specifically the high-salaries of employees as a major impediment to airline operations. It has been reported salaries for Mexicana employees is 30% higher than comparable airline salaries in the United States and double those of Mexico’s low-cost [...]
I’m getting tired of commenting on Althouse, so I think that I’ll be avoiding the site for awhile. Although most of the commenters provide interesting comments, there are a few extremely tendentious leftish types who have taken on the personal mission of “beating back the right wing lies“. You can wreck a blog by (a) never [...]
Then again, a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. Here is Sullivan’s rather bloodless post acknowledging that Journolist critics might have a point.
It’s no news that Nancy Pelosi is dumb as a box of rocks. But her notion that unemployment insurance payments are a great way to create jobs is so incandescently ignorant, it’s stunning that a person so stupid could ever become a leader of any kind. By her logic, we could achieve full employment by laying everybody [...]
Now that Dave Weigel has moved on to better things, the spotlight has turned to Ezra Klein’s Journolist listserv. By some accounts, as many as four hundred were registered on this listserv. What do you think the chances are that there are NO complete archives of the messages that were reflected by this listserv? I [...]
From SFGate: San Francisco moved a step closer Tuesday to becoming the first city in the nation to require that retailers post in their stores notices on the level of radiation emitted by the cell phones they offer. But as California environmentalists know, the best defense against brain cancer from cell phones is a tinfoil [...]