train wreck

As I watch the following clip, I see a guy who comes off as an genuine, thoughtful conservative thinker.

Sort of like Huckabee, only not as folksy. And, by the way, that’s not a bad thing.

Yahoo’s third quarter earnings weren’t the complete train wreck that was expected as the company met Wall Street estimates and announced a long-awaited layoff.

The company plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce in the fourth quarter.

So, it looks official. The train engineer who never slowed down before ramming his commuter train into a freight train in California was indeed sending text messages right up to the time of the crash.

That’s bad enough. Twenty-five people died and 135 were injured in the worst train wreck in 15 years.

Spend 27 years in Congress and you're bound to encounter more than one financial train wreck. But as Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., sees it, the meltdown in the U.S. housing market poses as much of a threat to the nation's economic well-being as anything he's encountered during his time on Capitol Hill.

If you haven’t seen Frontline’s documentary about how we got into Iraq and how it all went wrong, you need to.

It’s probably the most well researched piece I’ve seen so far, and the interviews with insiders are simply stunning.

Many saw this train wreck coming, but Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld just didn’t listen.

It’s not too often that a keynote at a major conference turns into a total train wreck. But that’s what happened with the Mark Zuckerberg keynote at SXSW where he was interviewed by BusinessWeek’s Sarah Lacy.

News.com’s Daniel Terdiman has the best account of Zuckerberg keynote and how Lacy lost the crowd.

What do you get when you combine one struggling carrier (Sprint) with an innovative but smallish one (T-Mobile)?