Hot off the Press: You can't please everybody edition

Educated, unemployed, and frustrated. A NYT op-ed by a Millennial: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/opinion/21klein.html.

Good ol' Costa Mesa will be laying off half of its city workforce, eliminating all city departments, and outsourcing all municipal work (probably to companies with hands in the pockets of the local politicians): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25layoffs.html. Typical Orange County shit.

Der Spiegel profiles the Hanford, Washington superfund site, which is basically the most radioactive and toxic place on Earth: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,752944,00.html.

General Electric, the nation's largest company, paid zero taxes in 2010. In fact, it says the IRS owes it $3.2 billion: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html. Here's a good quote:

Such strategies, as well as changes in tax laws that encouraged some businesses and professionals to file as individuals, have pushed down the corporate share of the nation’s tax receipts — from 30 percent of all federal revenue in the mid-1950s to 6.6 percent in 2009.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has instructed agents to interrogate suspected 'operational terrorists' about immediate threats to public safety without advising them of their Miranda rights to remain silent and to have an attorney present": http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25miranda.html.

Ford's Brazilian division is suing Nissan over a TV commercial featuring bikini clad babes and two actors posing as Ford engineers rapping about the money they made from overpriced cars: http://www.wheels.ca/article/asset/794753. The article features the commercial, which I watched, of course. It's in Portuguese, so I can't understand a word they are singing. It has to be the longest commercial I have ever seen.

For the first time, the Green Party is set to become the senior partner in a parliamentary coalition after elections in the German state of Baden-Württemberg: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,753503,00.html.

"In a sign of the times, Newport Beach is considering closing the city's original library and replacing it with a community center that would offer all the same features — except for the books": http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0329-newport-library-20110329,0,1671782.story. When you can't read the NYT, read the LAT.

Privately owned "birthing tourism" centers, where pregnant Chinese women could pay to stay before and after delivering their children in the United States, were discovered and shut down in SoCal: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-birthing-center-20110325,0,5726974.story.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is set to acquire Goose Island: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0329-goose-ab-20110328,0,7436442.story. Hmm... Not good.

More eye pollution at Wrigley: United Airlines has bought ad space on the roof of a house behind the left-center bleachers: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0329-united-wrigley-20110328,0,2143183.story.