this might not hurt, but close your eyes anyways

The governor’s office has not yet provided the details of the plan.

The Times-Picayune, on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal to eliminate all corporate and income taxes. “Our goal is to eliminate all personal income tax and all corporate income tax in a revenue neutral manner,” his office said in a statement.

1995 article assures you: the internet will not replace your newspapers and shopping mall.

(via robot-heart-politics)

How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them—one’s a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn’t work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, “Too many connections, try again later.”

Won’t the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen…

Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet—which there isn’t—the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

Today’s stereotype-driven stock photo gallery: Sad Businessmen at Bars.

The Huffington Post

lol

hman:

“Others expected to appear at the convention are comedian Larry the Cable Guy, musical acts Marshall Tucker Band and Pure Prairie League, an Elvis impersonator, NASCAR team owner Richard Childress and conservative commentator Michael Reagan.”

— Washington Post: Palin to deliver address at gun convention.

fakejeopardyinterviewintros:

“I hear you know your way around a jet ski a little better than most. Ryan?” —Alex Trebek

[R]ate regulators cannot lower rates to starve the utility of the capital needed to run its business. Debit card customers have a choice in banks, so there is no need to mandate any bank serve any particular customer. Yet banks also have capital needs, which is why, if anything, they need greater protection against government confiscation by arbitrarily low rates.

Richard A. Epstein: Dodd-Frank Act restrictions on debit-card processing fees are unconstitutional.

washingtontimes.com