Archive for November 8th, 2007

  • Do You Have Stat-A-Holism?

    Stat-a-holism is an emerging disorder of the unsuccessful online marketer.
    Its symptoms include
    1) Putting up a website
    2) Doing whatever your think will promote the website, and
    3) Checking your stat counter compulsively throughout the day to see what’s going on.
    4) Going nuts when it doesn’t change since you checked it 30 seconds ago and
    5) Decompensating because your [...]

  • Why Does The Government Say Things Are So Good When They Seem So Bad?

    Have you ever wondered why government “statistics” keep saying that inflation is “low” when everything from food to gas to rent to utilities continues to march upward?
    As Mark Twain once said, there are “lies, D*** lies, and statistics”.
    The website Shadow Government Statistics helps sort painful economic fact from politically correct fiction. It’s a bit too [...]