Category: Business

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Boeing, Store Wars, The Messengers

On Thursday, Northwest Cable News had a one-hour special on Boeing, its new 7E7 plane, and the likelihood that the airline company will have the plane built somewhere other than Seattle. Governor Locke plans to reward Boeing’s behavior and its frequent layoffs with a $3.2 billion tax break over 20 years.

“It’s like Elvis… there’s [been] a lot of sightings all over the place.”
King Abdullah of Jordan on Saddam Hussein’s whereabouts

Get PBS to run Store Wars in your town. It’s about a West Virginia town that fights an incoming WalMart plan.

Nightline had a special called The Messengers, about a preaching competition held at the infamous Bob Jones University. A compelling story, but a bit creepy, as most of the contestants, around 18 or 19, looked very 1950s in appearance.

Bush waters down an EPA report, watering down references to global warming.

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Giant colon, Bullfighter, God

Yay! A giant colon is coming to Seattle! Keep the weekend of July 8th free — after the July 4th barbecues, come see what’s probably going on in your inner tubes. I’m much more excited about this than I should be, but then, I’m easily amused.

Giant colon

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has created Bullfighter, a software program that converts awful corporate buzzwords into plain English. The tagline for Bullfighter is ‘Stripping the Bull Out of Business’. After 12 years in the corporate arena (I shouldn’t even say the word ‘arena’ — I mean, honestly, it provides no ‘value-added expectations’), it’s about time companies wrote in plain English. Of course, perhaps the wordiness was just a ploy to mask a lack of a business plan?

God has an online journal!