Random Stuff

Hey, didn’t you get your executive MBA from Harvard?

One distinguished academic called the aftermath an "intellectual tsunami." Others said that Harvard University, already under fire for failing to recruit enough professors, who are women in recent years, would now find it more difficult to attract the most accomplished candidates. And some alumnae said they would suspend donations to the university.
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…Remarks by Lawrence Summers, Harvard's President, at a conference suggesting that innate differences between the sexes might explain why women do less well than men in mathematics and science careers, continued to resonate on campus and across the nation, triggering often furious reactions.



“CHRISTCO”

When I lived in California, there was a piece of property that was the object of desire by both Costco and a local church. It went to the City Council and I believe eventually ended up in the courts. Both groups wanted to build on the site and it was quite the power struggle, as it were. Mark and Brian, see link in previous article, did a very clever skit about the potential merger, which they entitled “CHRISTCO”….very funny stuff.
Shortly after that we moved to the Pac NW, and one day we pulled into a local parking lot, and there it was…well sort of.
One of the quickest growing churches in the area had in fact taken over old grocery stores and converted them into churches, complete with parking lot and basket collection stations.

Mark and Brian were clearly onto something.

Orlando Dealer offers Picasso at Costco site

"http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-locpicasso19011905jan19,0,7529894.story?coll=sfla-news-florida"

Speaking of the ridiculous to the sublime, you can actually buy fine art at Costco.

Would that be next to the large cans of tomato paste or paper towels? Soon you will need to go no further than Costco to buy all your necessities.

What can we expect from Wal-Mart, bulk Rolex sales? And people think we are an uncultured society…attention K-mart shoppers, today’s Blue Light Special is the original works of Rembrandt in aisle 31.