The elite FAANG stocks have a combined market capitalisation of about $7.416 trillion so far this year, up from about $5.8 trillion last year. MAANG? MANGA? Or MAMATA?Facebook’s rebranding to Meta Platforms has launched a search for a new name for the high-flying FAANG group that also includes Apple, Amazon.com, Netflix and Alphabet.Facebook on Thursday…Continue Reading
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe speaks during his campaign rally in Richmond, Va., October 23, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) During an appearance on Meet the Press Sunday morning, Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe claimed that his statement at a recent debate against Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin that parents shouldn’t be involved in their children’s…Continue Reading
A group of demonstrators with tiki torches stand on a sidewalk as Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin arrives on his bus for a campaign event in Charlottesville, Va., October 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The anti-Trump organization the Lincoln Project became the subject of intense criticism after it coordinated a hoax show of…Continue Reading
Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) meets the monster (Boris Karloff) in 1931’s Frankenstein. (John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images) Mary Shelley’s warning about the dangers of heedless scientific advancement takes on new relevance today. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A sign of great literature is that one can return to it at different times and find that, though its words have…Continue Reading
Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter before a game against the Washington Wizards at TD Garden in Boston, Mass., October 27, 2021. (Omar Rawlings/Getty Images) The National Basketball Association would appreciate it greatly if everyone involved with the sport would remain quiet enough about the continuing atrocities in China for its international development team to complete…Continue Reading
Gemma Chan in Eternals. (Marvel Studios) Despite its Oscar-winning director, Eternals is a bottom-of-the barrel Marvel superhero saga. Chloé Zhao, the first Oscar winner for Best Director to direct a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, promised to bring to the blockbuster realm the character-based portraiture and documentary-tinged realism she exhibited in The Rider and Nomadland. Yet,…Continue Reading
Log in or sign up to leave a comment level 1Not just any sloth, that’s Flash, Flash Hundred Yard Dash!level 2What do you call a three hump camel?level 2I was gonna say the exact same thing!level 1Ha……..Ha……….Ha……….Ha………level 1Plottwist. He is not dressed up.level 2Probably still faster than most of their employees.level 2He gets one day…Continue Reading
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I worked for a guy in an automotive shop for a few months. We had 10 or so employees and the year I worked there before and after me he would turnover more employees than he had working for him. He was an asshole, he asked me to do unethical things but his brand was…Continue Reading
