Too Stupid for Words category archive
I Thought Hilton Was Already in the Luxury Hotel Market 0
And what is a “luxury lifestyle hotel” as opposed to a “luxury hotel” anyway?
Weird:
(Major Snippage)
According to Starwood, the allegedly stolen information included strategic plans for creating a lifestyle luxury hotel brand, and enabled Hilton to launch its Denizen brand in nine months as opposed to three to five years.
(Must. Restrain. Impulse. To. Rant.)
If more companies paid more attention to providing good value for the money and less to “branding,” they and their customers would all be better off.
Cop Runamuck 0
Dumb. Just dumb. Makes TSA’s fear of shampoo look profound:
But the tourists have said they had to return home to Vienna without their holiday pictures after two policemen forced them to delete the photographs from their cameras in the name of preventing terrorism.
Gun Nuttery 0
Dave Weigel on his experiences at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.
Note that no one in the federal administration has said anything about restricting guns.
The passage speaks for itself.
This leads to a certain skepticism of the media. Mark Stevens, whose Nazi merchandise is not moving very quickly on Saturday, declines to talk about it. “Any publicity from the media is bad publicity,” he explained.
One man asks a vendor if she has any “Impeach Obama” bumper stickers. Initially, he’s open to talking about his problems with the president. “There’s a black man in the White House,” he said. “What else do you need to know?” He suggests that journalism isn’t much of a career and tells me to look for something else to do. But 15 minutes later, he spots me in the range’s gun shop and asks me to cross his name out of my notebook. He grabs the book, grabs a pen, and scratches dark black ink onto the paper. “I don’t know who you are,” he said. “I don’t know if you work for the Southern Poverty Law Center. I don’t know if you work for the government.”
Your Name Is the Only Thing You Will Always Have 0
Whether it’s the one your parents gave you or one you chose yourself, at least until a wingnut tries to take it away.