Gerontocracy

I learned a new word last week. Gerontocracy -- government based on rule by elders.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blogs of Note

Who Would Jesus Hate? -- described as providing "anecdotal evidence of how religion is on the wrong side of every social issue." Fugetaboutit! -- hilarious site from a "48-year-old shrinking Italian comedian ." Take the tagline for instance: "I saw the face of Jesus in my lasagna ... briefly."
Read more

Business Exegeses

Image
Here are a few business articles of interest that kept me distracted from the subway freaks the past week or so. Still Marching to Purcell's Drumbeat -- talk about corporate governance gone bad ... here's a case of how not to do it, unless you're Machiavellian. This is a tale of Morgan Stanley's CEO & Chairman Philip J. Purcell, who basically got his friends onto Morgan Stanley's board, then proceeded to run the show, with no critical questions being asked. Screw the shareholders! Color-Blind Drug Research Is Myopic -- the US FDA just approved the heart failure drug, BiDil, specifically for the use by blacks. There is clear evidence that, for whatever reason, blacks to seem respond to the drug, more so than people with different genetic histories. This is a move towards personalized medicine, however, the implications to race in medical research is uncertain -- after all, there is no such thing as race. Iran: Rafsanjani's Second Shot at Reform -- w...
Read more

2016 Social Progress Index

The 2016 Social Progress Index has just been published. Unlike GDP, that measures a country's economic output, or the UN's Human Development Index that measures a country's living conditions, the SPI drops economic output, and looks at the factors impacting basic needs, well-being and opportunity. In case you don't know it, we're doing really good here in Canada. We sit at number 2 on this scale, behind Finland. Our friends south of the 49th -- not so good -- coming in at 19. Canada ... number 2! Happy Canada day, eh?
Read more