Last night we caught the “cult hit musical” Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Fantastic. iOTA‘s performance is astounding, despite having a name even sillier than mine. My friend Andrew said what needs to be said about this show ages ago. See it. You’ve got one week.
What hope the Liberal party?
Forget my last post about the Libs’ shoddy campaign in Marrickville, they can’t even organise a decent scandal any more!
While the Americans bring us sordid tales of evangelical ministers doing meth with rent boys and astronauts in diapers in kidnapping allegations, all the NSW Liberal Party can manage is sending a schoolboy-standard lewd SMS message. Pathetic.
What hope the Liberal candidate?
OK, the Liberals have a snowflake’s chance of winning our local seat of Marrickville in the forthcoming NSW state election, so they can let any muppet have a go. But if this is the best election flyer you can come up with, Ramzy Mansour, then who are you kidding?
Consider:
- If you can’t even organise someone who can cut paper in a straight line, what makes you think you can run the state of New South Wales?
- If you can’t raise the $3000 to professionally print the 45,000 leaflets necessary to hit your electorate, how little support do you actually have?
- If you can’t do the basic financial management to understand that for large print runs, offset printing is a lot cheaper than photocopying, why on earth would I trust you with a billion-dollar state budget?
1 out of 10, can do much, much better.
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Graphics from “An Inconvenient Truth”
The Internet continues its valuable role as an avoider of copyright “problems”: someone has conveniently put many of the information graphics from An Inconvenient Truth on Flickr for easy reference. I still wonder why they’re not on the official film website in the first place.
Seek must be a rip-off
OK, this isn’t exactly cutting-edge business analysis, but stay with me. Employment website Seek makes a net profit after tax of $23.9M off revenue of $70M. That’s a markup above costs of nearly 52%.
So I figure they could drop their prices by a good 20% and still be making plenty more profit that the average quite-successful business, yeah? Hell, a computer shop only makes 6% to 8% when they sell you a laptop.
No wonder their share price is at a record high.