
Each of these is a gem, a true gem! (I’m also getting ready to move so I’ve got to be a speedy poster these days)
From this week’s Iconoculture‘s Iconowatch Briefing:
MARKET FACTS
The expansion of legal gay marriage across New England could deliver an economic windfall. Same-sex couples in the “creative class” were 2.5 times more likely to move to Massachusetts in the three years following approval of same-sex marriage than in the three prior years, a University of California study found.
REUTERS | 6.4.09When you’re studying psychiatry, you’re taught that if a patient says, ‘I use cocaine once a month,’ you figure it’s twice a month. We were taught to double.
DR. ROBERT KLITZMAN, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY AT COLUMBIA U., ON HOW DOCTORS HANDLE THE LIES PATIENTS TELL TO GIVE PROPER TREATMENT, LOS ANGELES TIMES | 6.8.09Molson, a division of Molson Coors, will no longer be giving free beer to retirees, a move expected to save the company $900,000 a year. Also, the allotment for current employees is dropping from 72 dozen bottles a year to 52 dozen.
REUTERS | 6.10.09
I need to get to a cocktail party to drop some of these