Eten drinken slapen! Skandal im Sperrbezirk!
(Eat, drink, sleep! Scandal in the prohibited area!)
Sit on the porch in the sun in a worn out old robe.
Scare a few hummingbirds. Sip a few beers, trying to recall Rosi's number.
Und draussen im Hotel D'Amour
langweilen sich die Damen nur
weil jeder den die Sehnsucht quält
ganz einfach Rosis Nummer wählt
Und draussen vor der grossen Stadt
steh'n die Nutten sich die Füsse platt
Skandal im Sperrbezirk
Skandal im Sperrbezirk
Skandal - Skandal um Rosi
Monday, March 18, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Be Like New Hampshire: Do Nothing
Rep. Martin Quezada's Republic column (3/9/2013) arguing for continuing Voting Rights Act preclearance is disengenious and ungracious. Federal protections didn't gift Rep. Quezada an uncontested seat in the Arizona House, the citizens of Arizona did when they established the Independent Redistricting Commission. Rep. Quezada claims that Arizona could get out from under the preclearance requirement by changing its ways like New Hampshire recently did. Really? New Hampshire didn't do anything except point out to the federal government and courts that it was silly to apply the Voting Rights Act and preclearance to New Hampshire in the first place. The New Hampshire in question is ten tiny towns that are 98 pecent white. The biggest has a few thousand citizens and the smallest has nine. The sin that got them on the federal watch list was to have less than 50 percent voter turnout in the 1968 election, when a cold and fog enshrouded New Hampshire was going for Nixon anyway and a lot of the voters decided to stay home. Nothing's changed much in New Hamsphire since then except a lot of people (like Joe Arpaio) with better voting habits have moved there from Massachusetts.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Latest Hoot: RepublicTells Mayer How to Run a Technology Company
In the latest and greatest hoot, the AZ Republic enlisted a couple of unknown management consultants to advise Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo. Mayer's sin is telling technology employees that they need to show up at the office for work without first asking for their input on the mandate.
Hello! Mayer isn't just a pretty face. She rose through the ranks of software engineering to become a top executive at Google, one of the most successful technology companies in the history of the planet. Mayer is one of the people, if not the principal person, responsible for Google unseating Yahoo as the search technology that almost everyone uses to surf the Internet.
If you already know the formula for running a successful technology company it might make your new employees feel good to ask them how they feel about using it, but what do you do when they say no? Say: "Ok, fine, we'll just keep doing the things we do, failing and losing money, while Google beats our brains out."
Hello! Mayer isn't just a pretty face. She rose through the ranks of software engineering to become a top executive at Google, one of the most successful technology companies in the history of the planet. Mayer is one of the people, if not the principal person, responsible for Google unseating Yahoo as the search technology that almost everyone uses to surf the Internet.
If you already know the formula for running a successful technology company it might make your new employees feel good to ask them how they feel about using it, but what do you do when they say no? Say: "Ok, fine, we'll just keep doing the things we do, failing and losing money, while Google beats our brains out."
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