Teenage golf sensation Michelle Wie, who reportedly was guaranteed almost US$870,000 by Casio for her appearance at the Casio World Open 2006 in Japan, is not sure if she would be invited back for next year’s event. Wie was second from last after two days of the US$1.2 million event, missing the cut by a… Read More »
The blog post titled “When a Crane Flies, Duck” by Joe Wilcox under Microsoft Watch not only flies in the face of good taste, the pun is also lame, to say the least. This creeping tabloidization, where heretofore respectable news organisations are succumbing to the subjects and techniques of tabloid journalism, exploits visceral emotions aimed… Read More »
So, the Singapore government has raised GST from 5% to 7% and the people are complaining that the increase has come at an inopportune time. Well, quit whining! Remember this is the same PAP government that you voted in during the recent General Election in May? You get the government you deserve. The next time… Read More »
Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, has suggested that US President George Bush should follow the example of Donald Rumsfeld and resign, according to a Reuters report. “Heads have started to roll. The president should resign on moral grounds,” Chavez told a news conference after an aide passed him a note with word of the… Read More »
In the October 30, 2006 issue of FORTUNE, Geoffrey Colvin cited Boeing CEO James McNerney as one of the 13 peak performers in the cover story on “Secrets of Greatness“. Somewhere in the interview, McNerney responded to the question of whether great performers in any field tended to receive a lot of early encouragement from… Read More »
Is George Bush too stupid to be president? Going by the evidence (cited here, here and here), no one in the right frame of mind would dispute this. Particularly damning are quotes uttered by Bush aboard Air Force One: “I’m the master of low expectations.” (June 4, 2003) “I’m also not very analytical. You know… Read More »