For My Co-workers
#WritingFromIsolationWard
Category: Entertainment
This is a politician, after all, who never won the votes of more than a third of the electorate; destroyed communities; created mass unemployment; deindustrialised Britain; redistributed from poor to rich; and, by her deregulation of the City, laid the basis for the crisis that has engulfed us 25 years later.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/04/margaret-thatcher-state-funeral-protests
Hammergren’s salary so far in 2012 : $145,000,000 / 525,600 min. per year (thanks, Rent!) * 60 min. per hour * 24 hours per day * 3 days so far in 2012 = $1,191,780.
http://www.metafilter.com/111246/He-doesnt-leave-anything-on-the-table-does-he
Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, was best known in Britain for his cheerfully anarchic St Trinian’s series of books and Molesworth illustrations, though his reportage work for publications such as Le Monde, Life and The New Yorker saw him feted elsewhere as one of the world’s greatest satirical artists.