Assorted Links 5/4/09 Archives

Assorted Links 5/4/09

Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
Crisis Communications Training, May 7, 2009
Understanding Congressional Budgeting and Appropriations, May 13, 2009
Working with Congress and Congressional Staff: Communicating Effectively with Capitol Hill, May 15, 2009
Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
Markets in everything: terrifying yet stupid pieces of furniture
"A Bureaucratic Nightmare"
Killing Us With Crony Capitalism
When the Engineer Gardens
Marion Barry, Defender of Marriage - "You wonder what the politicians who are not moral are like."
Nader: Obama Ignores Me and Other Progressives
After swine flu gaffe, Biden sent to his safe zone
Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide
Is 10% of portfolio too much for the [Vanguard] Energy Fund
No child left alone
Bailout Watch 518: How Much is This Boondoggle Going to Cost Me?
Shiller on Depression Scares
Krugman: Falling Wage Syndrome
The thinkers who predicted early on many aspects of this financial crisis
Dead Grass Alternative
I’m not the only doomsayer
The Boston Globe vs. The New York Times--vs. the internet: "The old saying about premarital sex--why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?--appears to apply to the newspaper world as well."
Swine flu and hotel liability
Stainless Steel Microneedles for Flu Vaccine Delivery
I'm becoming semi-nomadic
John Allison and Rand - "We don’t think that it’s good business in the long term to do bad things to your clients, even if you make a profit doing it."
Costs Are Not Benefits
How To Prevent Speech From Being Suppressed - "Apparently it's fine for Congress to debate the DREAM Act but not campus speakers."
BOOKS: Freedom to offend
Generous Lust
Delicious Squeezable Bacon
More on the new Geoffrey Miller book, *Spent*
Business Resolutions For The New Year
COPS: The Suburban Edition?!
Systemic Fraud at Public Pension Funds?
Video of UAE torture prince assaulting 25 others -- who's censoring this news in the UAE?
The Ladder Lock: Your Little Ladder-Holding Buddy
Bluetooth Headset Makers in Class-Action Lawsuit -- Give Me a Break
Carmageddon Continues
The high cost of firing (or not firing) teachers
What Would An Activist Do?
Ocean Godzilla v. Space Godzilla v. Mogera
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Human landscapes from above