I can’t wait until the new site goes live and I can tuck bulky material below the fold. In the meantime, if you’re interested in the rhetorical chicanery of early Alan Moore (particularly in Miracleman), you can find an analysis of it here. Read the rest of this entry »
Guest Post by Michael-John Wolfe
The internet is full of websites that claim to help you make money online or earn residual income. The problem is, 95% of these websites are simply scams or MLM schemes that want to take your money. I have spent the last two years scouring the web in search of legitimate ways to make money online. Only a select few websites actually back up their claims and really do provide results and I have listed these websites on my blog Residuals and Royalties.
Right now everyone has the opportunity to make money online. But the question is where and how to start? This is the big question that most beginners have. As a beginner wanting to start making money online, you must first gain the necessary knowledge of how to get started and do thing successfully. A good way to get the real working knowledge of making money online is by learning from people who has the best knowledge.
I actually think Digby is being a little too charitable when she says that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is “willing to deep six the rest of their social justice agenda for political reasons.” I don’t see any real evidence that the Bishops (an interest group that should, as Digby says, not be conflated with Roman Catholics per se) have a meaningful social justice agenda at all. As far as I can tell, their actual policy agenda is 1)making it as hard as possible for poor women to obtain safe abortions and 2)there is no #2. Read the rest of this entry »
The market is nicely higher in early trading after a better than expected monthly jobs report. Nonfarm payrolls for February showed -36,000 job losses, but this is less than the consensus for -68,000.
Guest post by Andy Walton
We’ve all read, seen or heard something that we simply had to pass on. When things go viral, they can generate enormous amounts of traffic. And from massive amount of traffic, cash can be earned. So if you want to make money online you should think viral. But what rules can you follow to improve your chance of creating content that goes nuclear? I’ve taken a recent example from Wikinut, and analyzed why it attracted so much attention.
The market finished on a solid note today, ahead of tomorrow’s widely anticipated employment report. There has been a lot of chatter that the number will be weaker than consensus. While that could hit the market short-term, I think the fact that it is being widely expected increases the prospect of a weak number already being priced in.
So, according to this (rather informal) National Journal poll of right and left bloggers, 100% of left respondents think that the Democrats will benefit from passing health care legislation through reconciliation. However, 85.7% of right bloggers think that the Democrats will be hurt by passage of health care legislation through reconciliation. Three thoughts: