The prime minister of India? Ben Kingsley as the younger Gandhi? No, it’s Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos in Bangalore at, somewhat ironically, a shopping mall.
From Amazon to the Ganges
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Intruder alert!
Here is video showing how the White House intruder managed to slip past the Secret Service.
http://youtu.be/-jO1EOhGkY0?t=2m
Before and Afterthought
Political cartoonists no longer have the influence that they enjoyed for many decades, if not a century, but the ones that remain continue to ply their craft. Jerry Holbert of the Boston Herald did this cartoon, about the recent lapse in White House security, which saw publication locally.
But before it reached national syndication, the editor at Uclick requested a change in wording.
I checked, and watermelon-flavored toothpaste does indeed exist.
Scotland vs. England
These are Scotsmen…
… and these are Englishmen.
See the difference?
Kim Jong is ill
Perhaps Miller was attempting to introduce North Korea to Sixties British Beat culture.
Market Basket orders customers back to stores!
The Market Basket saga continues. The latest is that Governor Deval Patrick is calling for workers to return to their jobs, but that position seems to reflect the Arthur S. Demoulas side of the feud, and Patrick’s wife works for the law firm that represents Arthur S.
Apparently, Arthur T. made an ill-timed 2008 investment of the $46m employee trust fund in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/aug/14/market-basket-arthur-millions-investing-protests
The timing of the investment was disastrous. Only months after Demoulas poured Market Basket’s profits into Fannie and Freddie, the US government took over the two companies, wiped out their preferred stock so that it was worth zero, and made them wards of the state. The upshot: Market Basket’s entire profit-sharing plan was lost in the stock market…