American AAdvantage is offering 5,000 bonus miles for signing up with AT&T Wireless service — or up to 25,000 miles for five lines of service. AAdvantage and AT&T are also offering a sweepstakes. Through Nov. 15, anyone who makes an international call using their AT&T wireless service will be entered for a chance to win 1 million AAdvantage miles. Come to think of it, someday I should probably do an exhaustive search and analysis of the different cell phone for miles deals out there. Don’t have the mental energy for it today…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for July 2002.
Earn 10,000 American
Earn 10,000 American Airlines miles per year with BankDirect. This one is a bit tricky, because there are fees below the minimum balances. If you can keep the minimum balance in your account, this could be lucrative.
Netbank is offering
Netbank is offering Priority Club points for new savings accounts. There’s no account fee. Just deposit $250 and leave it for a month. There are no fees. You’ll earn 10,000 Priority Club points. You are then free to cancel the account without penalty. Combine that with the 10,000 mile bonus for the free Priority Club Visa and you now have 20,000 points. That’s a couple of hotel nights or 5,000 frequent flyer miles in your choice of 19 different airline programs.
US planning to
US planning to recruit 1 in 24 Americans as citizen-spies. That’s a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. (Thanks to Damon Chetson for the link.)
My Armageddon Day: December 2,
My Armageddon Day: December 2, 2057, according to the Death Clock. Looks like I won’t be needing any Christmas presents that year, but could you throw me one hell of a birthday bash please?
I usually ignore PC debates
I usually ignore PC debates as pretty much a non-issue, but this is just surreal. (Thanks to Juan Non-Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy for the link.)
Some tentative thoughts on accounting
Some tentative thoughts on accounting scandals. Charles Oliver asks if current US accounting scandals mean that the US in 2002 is like Japan in 1989. I have some fears that he may be right. Japan soared for a long time on a mistaken belief about the health of its companies and economy. It turned out that the books were cooked. Japanese accounting rules allowed companies to take bonds and split them between principal and interest (coupons and zeroes) and value the two parts equally. Of course, they weren’t equally valuable. So companies would sell the more valuable piece for a paper profit, and keep the less valuable piece on their books at above market value. Companies were hiding losses and pretending to show profits in this way for decades. At the time, analysts in the…
Anyone care to send the
Anyone care to send the folks at blogspot a dollar so they can buy themselves a clue and name More Room Throughout Coach a Blog of Note?
I just noticed
I just noticed Timatollah. Okay, I noticed because he linked to me. Tim has some interesting observations, but I need to take issue with his July 4th point based on the Declaration of Independence that “legitimate government is one of the great creations of the human social animal.” We equally need to remember Madison’s point that (paraphrasing) If all men were angels, there would be no need for government. If government were to be run by angels, there would be no need for constraints. But it is precisely because men are to rule over other men, that we must first empower and then constrain. IMHO, we’ve gone rather far on the pendulum towards empowering. We need to pay a little more attention to constraints.
My May archives seem to
My May archives seem to have disappeared, so here is a Free Hertz #1 Gold Membership (Normally $50) Free Gold Status with Hilton (for benefits, see here)
