We’ve never quite understood the vitriol that comes with the name Jimmy Fallon. Maybe the problem stems from the fact that he’s really a tweener; like a lyric from a lost Britney Spears song, he’s not an actor, not yet a comedian. In fact, if he’s guilty of one thing, it’s that he just seems so incredibly happy to be famous.
“Also, Charlie, not to belabor the joke, but do you call your mouse ‘Algernon’? I bet you do. Charlie.”
Why is it that those most likely to oppose the war are the ones least likely to fight in it?
Those most likely to fight in it are barred from commenting by their commanding officers, so it’s a little hard to gauge their opinions.
This almost makes up for the last visit, when all the exhibits were closed and we could see no animals. Almost.
Staking Up A Place for Giraffes to Gather - Visit the Zebra, Ostrich and Giraffe exhibit and you will see contractors building a stairway into the trees. These stairs and their platform destination will turn into a Giraffe feeding station sometime in May. Once operational, the station will let visitors climb aboard to talk to giraffe keepers and buy browse to feed to the Giraffes.
I am all about getting eye-level with some giraffes. I will be first in line for this (figuratively).
Shocked!
A former Hewlett-Packard chief executive who left the troubled company with a severance package worth an estimated $21 million to $42 million, Fiorina also bucked the populist tide against lavish corporate salaries by denouncing President Obama’s effort to cap annual pay at $500,000 for leaders of banks taking federal bailout money.
“When somebody makes $40 million a year for failure, we cannot defend that,” she said. “On the other hand, I believe the solution should be, every CEO’s pay should be put up for shareholder vote each and every year. Let the shareholders decide.”
I am shocked—SHOCKED!—that someone who ran a company so poorly that she was paid more to go away than I’ll earn in a lifetime believes that pay ceilings are a bad idea. Shocked!
But as to the second part—isn’t the government a very large stakeholder in every bank on which they are trying to impose capped executive salaries? So they should have a say in compensation, based on her statement. It’s either that or (a) she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, or (b) she doesn’t care what she says or whether it holds up against any level of scrutiny so long as it seems to match with the misshapen driftwood that comprises the contemporary Republican platform.
It’s gotta be one of those three, right?
