I find Starbucks an interesting company to read about, I’ve talked before about the economics of Starbucks an almost entirely corporate owned empire compared to the fast food empires that tend to be franchises. Well, the newest article of interest on Starbucks I’ve come across is in Slate and discusses the subject of whether Starbucks [...]
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Flex games are new to the NFL, allowing Sunday Night Football (replacing Monday night as the premier game showcase) to shift the time slot (to primetime) of a game in order to get the best game out there (with complex rules on which games they can touch) this is to prevent getting stuck as in [...]
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Live Blogging is something I am not really too familiar with, but the NCAA is apparently familiar enough with it to come up w/ some crazy new limits on reporters blog posting (they have apparently thrown a reporter out of a game for too many posts already). Anyway, the concept of live blogging is giving [...]
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So I’ve been accused of being a hypocrite before, being a ‘flip flopper’ or the like and I say yeah, well I think thats really not that bad a thing. What does it mean? it means that I don’t become so entrenched in my view that I am not willing to change when events change [...]
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I can’t say I read Rolling Stone much these days, but every now and then some great writing comes out of it (the great book Fast Food Nation got its start in the magazine, as well as Eric Schlosser’s second book Reefer Madness which partially covers the problem with the drug war in America) Anyway [...]
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Following the holocaust the world said ‘never again’ and we believed it. That is until genocide repeated itself again and again, with the world often doing nothing or waiting and waiting. The UN was at the center of the attempt of the post world war international regime that was supposed to allow collective action to [...]
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