Email “signatures” are the appendages to email messages that typically include name and contact information. They sometimes include pithy semi-humorous statements. For those of you desiring some level of wit for their own emails but are at a loss on how what to write, here are some to choose from:
==/==/==/==Police tagline==/==/==Do not cross ==/==/==/==
90% of […]
Hard to imagine Independent Sources plugging CNN though they did provide the best Tsunami coverage of any of the 24/7 news outlets. However, Headline News, the longtime ignored sibling of CNN, is now the prime time home of ex-Court TV’s Nancy Grave and her firedbrand legal commentary has reinvigorated the network and given viewers a […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In response to reader demand for “softer” weekend postings and other suggestions to improve the blog, we at Independent Sources are pleased to announce our first major overhaul of the blog since our first posting in January of this year. Specifically we are adding a Weekend Edition of Independent Sources that will carry entries aimed […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)What sounds like a fascinating new book is just out — “One Nation Under Therapy.” The WSJ review [$] says in part:
“… ‘therapism’ (is the author’s) term for theories and practices whose common theme is the fragility and helplessness of human beings.
…By now, most of us are familiar with the tenets of therapism. Children in […]
Wonder why you wasted ten minutes sitting at traffic lights this morning? Guess what: no one cares!
“Two-thirds of 378 traffic agencies in 49 states don’t actively monitor traffic lights, or they simply respond to problems as they occur, the Washington-based Institute of Transportation Engineers reported.
… A study by a Maryland researcher last year found that […]
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) is sponsoring a bill that would require the National Weather Service to take much of its work product, including forecasts, offline.
Santorum is apparently fronting for private weather forecasters such as Accuweather and the Weather Channel, who don’t like the competition from one of their suppliers.
According to the article linked to above, […]
After reading the excellent posting on the debate going on concerning what sports to include in future Olympic games, I would like to weigh in with the following suggestions to the Olympic Committee:
First off, pitch baseball and softball. The latter because it’s boring the former because the pro-game is better in all countries that care […]
Changes may be coming to the Summer Olympics:
“Each of the 28 sports in the Summer Olympics will be put to a vote in July when the IOC decides whether to make changes in the program for the 2012 Games.
… The IOC is considering whether to drop any of the existing 28 sports and add any […]
Kofi Annan sounds more like Woldcom’s Bernie Ebbers every day and this is not a good thing for people hoping for reform within the UN. Alternating between being defiant and just plan in denial, Mr. Annan stated that Paul Volcker’s second interim report on the UN’s Oil for Food program “cleared me of any wrongdoing.”
Just […]
The LA Times fesses up to problems with some recent stories about hazing at Cal State Chico, and takes action:
“… the methods used in reporting the story were substandard. The quotations from anonymous sources and from two named sources, a Mike Rodriguez and a Paul Greene, could not be verified.”
And, after describing five additional factual […]
I was surprised this morning to hear NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League) listed among the sponsors of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
It’s not news that NPR swings left, but taking money from a very left-wing advocacy organization puts them in a compromising position. It presents the appearance of being buy-able, even if there is no […]
An interesting commentary from an ex-pat living in Norway, who notes that while Scandanavians are told they live in the world’s richest countries, studies don’t back that up. In part:
“Even as the Scandinavian establishment peddles this dubious line, it serves up a picture of the United States as a nation divided, inequitably, among robber barons […]
At a time where national elections are being decided by close votes in a handful of swing states, it’s interesting to see big a move by any voting constituency. The recent Terry Schiavo saga has highlited a political shift by disabled Americans into the GOP camp. According to the National Organization on Disability, in 2000 […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Given the UN’s track record on investigating itself, one can only wonder about the real extent of the Congo sex scandal. Looking at only those allegations that the UN is copping to is bad enough, but the reality is likely much worse. The UN was called into to protect the Congolese from the civil war […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)At some point contributor Area Man will reveal his cyclical theory of everything, which basically holds that every five years new management teams throw out the strategies of the past five years and proceed to do the opposite. Supporting both that idea and our earlier thesis that General Motors is managed by people disconnected from […]
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