THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Perhaps it says something that all those wacko leftists have made P. R. MIKE into the GOD of LIE$, but it says something too that moviegoers are staging a VIRTUAL BOYCOTT of MICKEYMOUSE NIXON'S APOLOGY. Having already insulted their intelligence, he compounds his problem with a phony mea culpa. They KNOW, more than MICKEYMOUSE NIXON knows. This is but another superfluous indication that NIXON DESTROYED HIS COMPANY'S "FAMILY FRANCHISE" and has thrown away any right to be BELIEVED, other than by the always supercredulous SHOW-BIZ NEWS HACKS.
And as I expected A YEAR AGO, DE-Lovely is getting DE-BONED, DE-CLAWED, DE-CLEATED, DE-FACED, DE-FANGED, DE-FENESTRATED, DE-FILED, DE-FLATED, DE-LETED, DE-MEANED, DE-MERITED, DE-MISED, DE-MOLISHED, DE-MONITIZED, DE-MORALIZED, DE-RACINATED, DE-RAILED, DE-RIDED, DE-SEXED, DE-STROYED, DE-TESTED, and DE-VALUED on its way to an after-the-fact anticlimactic DE-LOUSING and DE-WORMING. How can the SAMMY GLICKMEN make a good musical when they can't make a good MOVIE?!?!?
And as I expected A YEAR AGO, DE-Lovely is getting DE-BONED, DE-CLAWED, DE-CLEATED, DE-FACED, DE-FANGED, DE-FENESTRATED, DE-FILED, DE-FLATED, DE-LETED, DE-MEANED, DE-MERITED, DE-MISED, DE-MOLISHED, DE-MONITIZED, DE-MORALIZED, DE-RACINATED, DE-RAILED, DE-RIDED, DE-SEXED, DE-STROYED, DE-TESTED, and DE-VALUED on its way to an after-the-fact anticlimactic DE-LOUSING and DE-WORMING. How can the SAMMY GLICKMEN make a good musical when they can't make a good MOVIE?!?!?
'Spamalot' inks cast
Richard Burton, Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews they are not.
Much as I hate to douse cold water on this Arthurian legend, I've a strong hunch this is little more than tuneless songs mated to the usual whimsical grossout humor, but it will be a hit because the ad-blurb copywriters have a soft spot for Monty Python, much as they have a soft spot for anything that flatters their alleged intelligence.
Does anyone miss the likes of the great Broadway songwriters other than me?
Richard Burton, Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews they are not.
Much as I hate to douse cold water on this Arthurian legend, I've a strong hunch this is little more than tuneless songs mated to the usual whimsical grossout humor, but it will be a hit because the ad-blurb copywriters have a soft spot for Monty Python, much as they have a soft spot for anything that flatters their alleged intelligence.
Does anyone miss the likes of the great Broadway songwriters other than me?
More GENIUS from THE COMEBACK KID, EINSTEIN SELIG: The Tigers are getting free money for not playing at their old ballpark!
First a dad, then a mayor
Family man James K. Hahn is on a 'personal quest' to run the city of Los Angeles 'and still have a normal life.'
By definition, public officials are never normal.
Family man James K. Hahn is on a 'personal quest' to run the city of Los Angeles 'and still have a normal life.'
By definition, public officials are never normal.
MORE ACTUAL EXCELLENCE FROM G000,000,000,000,000GLE!!!!!:
Buy and sell tickets to premium and sold out events
USA Today - 2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Marlon Brando was cremated after a private memorial service attended by a small group of family members and friends, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hey Googliooglians, WHERE'S THE IP000,000,000,000,000?????
Buy and sell tickets to premium and sold out events
USA Today - 2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Marlon Brando was cremated after a private memorial service attended by a small group of family members and friends, his attorney said Wednesday.
Hey Googliooglians, WHERE'S THE IP000,000,000,000,000?????
Like the jolly balding guy who runs my alma mater (EVERY photo shows him SMILING!!!!!), which just sent out its latest alumni bulletin, which nowhere mentions it let a gabby vagina horde an auditorium.
And speaking of megalomaniacs, Syracuse is using its students' tuition to build a palace for one its star profs, THE KING OF BLURBS, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS WHO DECREES TV BETTER THAN EVER!!!!!
Some college presidents could use a REEDUCATION CAMP.
Some college presidents could use a REEDUCATION CAMP.
STERNO and PROF and the USUAL GIGABLOGGERS who can afford to gloat are celebrating that Technorati follows 3 MILLION BLOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To which I respond, how many give up after the first week? How many have anything to say? How many are read, like mine, only by their creators? And how many can turn a limited shtick into WORLD DOMINATION, like STERNO and PROF and ANDY S. and LITTLE and MR. BLEAT and STARDATE and the VOLOKHEADS and GAWKER and the rest of the usual tiresome gang of zillion-hit idiots?
What is with Kinsley.com? Yestderday on its home page it called Sen. Polyester "THE RIGHT CHOICE." Now "He's No. 2!" This is either mendacity or flailing, and with Kinsley.com it's hard to know which from which.
Well it looks like we're back to getting one or two hits a day. I blame (among others) Blogger's parent Google for not linking me with related sites. (This to top off its excellent blogging service -- will wonders never cease?) I've been at it for almost eighteen months and I'm getting one hit a day? Is anybody out there?
An ice-battle scene in "King Arthur" comes alive thanks to nearly 500 visual effects. [Home page hed]
TRANSLATION: Hollywood can't make a good simple movie any more if it TRIED.
TRANSLATION: Hollywood can't make a good simple movie any more if it TRIED.
When do news reports influence those in black robes?
When they want to make sure they're gonna live forever.
Of course, in the U. S. Ninth Circuit, they DO live forever.
When they want to make sure they're gonna live forever.
Of course, in the U. S. Ninth Circuit, they DO live forever.
POLITICS AND VIDEOGAME VIOLENCE: My TechCentralStation column is up.
I can guess: Noooooooo problem, because I'M a LIBERTARIAN. Besides, it's GOOD FOR YOU!
I can discern no difference among the knee-jerk conservative, the knee-jerk liberal, the knee-jerk libertarian, the knee-jerk vegan, etc., etc., ETC.
I can guess: Noooooooo problem, because I'M a LIBERTARIAN. Besides, it's GOOD FOR YOU!
I can discern no difference among the knee-jerk conservative, the knee-jerk liberal, the knee-jerk libertarian, the knee-jerk vegan, etc., etc., ETC.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Looks like GOOGLEBLOGGER's not going to be fixed for a LONG TIME.
Do you think maybe if we eliminated THAT DORKY ANIMATION when it's UPLOADING it might HELP?
Do you think maybe if we eliminated THAT DORKY ANIMATION when it's UPLOADING it might HELP?
"The mistake makes the New York Post look foolish, and all it shows is that one should not trust the New York Post, a conservative Republican paper, on inside matters of the Democratic Party."
Agreed. But one should not trust THE PAPER OF RECORD et al, liberal Democratic papers, on inside matters in the Republican party. And GUESS WHICH PARTY runs the White House and Congress. SIX OF ONE....
Agreed. But one should not trust THE PAPER OF RECORD et al, liberal Democratic papers, on inside matters in the Republican party. And GUESS WHICH PARTY runs the White House and Congress. SIX OF ONE....
"Just about all the research in the elections field has concluded that vice presidential candidates rarely make much difference at all."
Ah but LARRY, you're not CONSTANTLY IN DEMAND for NOTHING!
Ah but LARRY, you're not CONSTANTLY IN DEMAND for NOTHING!
Jeez, all these posts about RUPERT'S!!!!!!!!!! DEWEY and not one about our new vice-president!
Well, they both have nice hair.
Well, they both have nice hair.
Newsday goes NYAH NYAH-NYAH NYAAAAAAAAAAH NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Of course with YOUR circulation inflation....
Of course with YOUR circulation inflation....
And THANK YOU AGAIN, GOOGLEBLOGGER, for enabling me to publish my initial post of the day THIRTEEN TIMES!!!!!
What did I say, PROFESSOR? That DIP would choose a SENATOR!!!!!
RIGHT, GOOGLEBLOGGER???????????????????????
RIGHT, GOOGLEBLOGGER???????????????????????
Well, if it's any consolation, RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!, you'll be popular on eBay.
RIGHT GOOGLEBLOGGER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
RIGHT GOOGLEBLOGGER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Kerry Picks Edwards to Be Running Mate
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
I'm posting this whether or NOT GoogleBlogger works.
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN!
I'm posting this whether or NOT GoogleBlogger works.
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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWELL! RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAYS it's CONGRESSMAN WEATHERVANE!!!!!
The 'Vane and the 'Do! This should be an exciting campaign zzzzzzzzzz.
Unless of course the STAFF was DEKING.
The 'Vane and the 'Do! This should be an exciting campaign zzzzzzzzzz.
Unless of course the STAFF was DEKING.
Monday, July 05, 2004
[L]ooking at any of Brando's performances now, it is possible to see how highly stylized they are. Take his Stanley Kowalski, which, at the time, seemed so spontaneous and intuitive one thought he was making it up as he went along (Brando did, indeed, improvise a lot of his own lines but not those). His approach to that character now seems almost as mannered to the present generation as, say, Barrymore's snorting Hamlet did to the generation of the '40s. Every age believes it has reached the ultimate truth in acting when it has only achieved the ultimate in its own style.
OR:
No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear.
OR:
No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear.
In honor of the fact that GoogleBlogger just unfroze after freezing up for half an hour, I now present -- GOOGLEBLOGGER'S GREATEST HITS:
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Internal server errors are being intermittently returned on blogger.com - we believe this is a load balancing problem and are working to correct the problem.
Update: This was a transient problem that has been resolved.
Posted by Jason at 1:36 PM
Monday, June 28, 2004
Some Blog*Spot blogs aren't being served — we're looking into the problem.
Update: this has been fixed.
Posted by Eric at 5:25 PM
The Forgot your Password? form is not functional at the moment—we're working on it.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by Eric at 9:39 AM
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Blog*Spot Plus users are currently unable to update their blogs. We're working on the problem.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by John at 4:06 PM
Thursday, June 24, 2004
bStats is currently unreachable; we're looking into the problem.
Update: bStats is back online.
Posted by Eric at 11:51 AM
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Currently, the blogger application is not successfully sending mail. This will affect team invites, BlogSend and comment notification. The problem is being worked on.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by Jason at 11:38 PM
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
As we update mail-to-blogger to make it more robust, you may experience delays in posting via this feature. These issues will be resolved as we are currently installing additional machines to handle the load.
Posted by Jason at 3:34 PM
Monday, June 21, 2004
Mail-to-Blogger is not currently working and should be back up shortly.
Update: This has been resolved.
Posted by Jason at 1:22 PM
If all these things got fixed why does GoogleBlogger always seem BROKE?
Thursday, July 01, 2004
Internal server errors are being intermittently returned on blogger.com - we believe this is a load balancing problem and are working to correct the problem.
Update: This was a transient problem that has been resolved.
Posted by Jason at 1:36 PM
Monday, June 28, 2004
Some Blog*Spot blogs aren't being served — we're looking into the problem.
Update: this has been fixed.
Posted by Eric at 5:25 PM
The Forgot your Password? form is not functional at the moment—we're working on it.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by Eric at 9:39 AM
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Blog*Spot Plus users are currently unable to update their blogs. We're working on the problem.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by John at 4:06 PM
Thursday, June 24, 2004
bStats is currently unreachable; we're looking into the problem.
Update: bStats is back online.
Posted by Eric at 11:51 AM
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Currently, the blogger application is not successfully sending mail. This will affect team invites, BlogSend and comment notification. The problem is being worked on.
Update: This has been fixed.
Posted by Jason at 11:38 PM
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
As we update mail-to-blogger to make it more robust, you may experience delays in posting via this feature. These issues will be resolved as we are currently installing additional machines to handle the load.
Posted by Jason at 3:34 PM
Monday, June 21, 2004
Mail-to-Blogger is not currently working and should be back up shortly.
Update: This has been resolved.
Posted by Jason at 1:22 PM
If all these things got fixed why does GoogleBlogger always seem BROKE?
The nation's NEWS HACKS and knee-jerk lefties (six of one) get a new definition of why ABORTION IS FOREVER:
See, if I'm president, the separation of church and state says I can't subject you to my beliefs. One of my beliefs is I'm against abortion. Therefore the separation of church and state says I can't stop abortion (smug smirk optional).
PINCH!!!!! Time for you and your fellow DEMOCRATS to RAISE THE BANNER FOR...er, IN FAVOR OF THE BELIEF THAT WE CAN'T LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!!
See, if I'm president, the separation of church and state says I can't subject you to my beliefs. One of my beliefs is I'm against abortion. Therefore the separation of church and state says I can't stop abortion (smug smirk optional).
PINCH!!!!! Time for you and your fellow DEMOCRATS to RAISE THE BANNER FOR...er, IN FAVOR OF THE BELIEF THAT WE CAN'T LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!!
SADDAM SHOCKER: TYRANT MAY BEAT THE RAP, SAYS BODANSKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do CARL LIMBURGER and thr NEWSMAX.COM!!!!!!!!!! STAFF do half their reporting from TALK RADIO?
Why do CARL LIMBURGER and thr NEWSMAX.COM!!!!!!!!!! STAFF do half their reporting from TALK RADIO?
More cute politics: The New Yorker (yes, The New Yorker) tries to disqualify Vice-President Fixer by disclosing a doctor who gave him a clean bill of health is a druggie. Can't you folks debate him on his politics and not his doc's personal troubles?
Attorney General HAMFACE HAMFIST reveals more trickery from up his sneaky sleeve: the "retroactive classification," just another way the Feds can cover up while convincing themselves they did something right.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
I want to know why MR. MARK tries not to be JUDGMENTAL when it comes to adulte -- whoops, women having a second chance at romance, but when the question's Iraq he's the thunderclap of Go -- er, a judgmenta -- er, a sterner force that some people allege lives in the sky.
OR:
Page 4: How to protect the children
CHILDREN? What are children? Aren't those things you have a right to abort?
And here I thought SPIDEY'S PRESS AGENT would leave us alone for the holiday.
OR:
Page 4: How to protect the children
CHILDREN? What are children? Aren't those things you have a right to abort?
And here I thought SPIDEY'S PRESS AGENT would leave us alone for the holiday.
Now if Eddie really wanted to boast in this press release, he would have added a "floating 'hopefully'" to his "gaming" for "gambling." OR:
Hopefully gambli...er, gaming will mean more money for this state which will mean more state workers sayin' sorry can't do that, and now that we're financin' an add-on to the convention center in Philly hopefully it means more jobs for waiters and janitors and bellhops and maids -- and when I'm through with this, er, when I'm finished runnin' this state hopefully we'll have MORE HIGH TECH BELLHOPS AND SLOT MACHINES THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION!
Hopefully gambli...er, gaming will mean more money for this state which will mean more state workers sayin' sorry can't do that, and now that we're financin' an add-on to the convention center in Philly hopefully it means more jobs for waiters and janitors and bellhops and maids -- and when I'm through with this, er, when I'm finished runnin' this state hopefully we'll have MORE HIGH TECH BELLHOPS AND SLOT MACHINES THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION!
A thing I especially love about full-screen popups is that when you click on the X in the ad to close it, you know it'll take thirty seconds to turn off, so you end up clicking the X on the browser window. A nice touch, TRIB and USAOKAY!
For me, toxic shock started to set in before "My Life" officially went on sale.
For me, GLIBERAL, it set in when you called Dreamgirls one of the greatest musicals of all time.
For me, GLIBERAL, it set in when you called Dreamgirls one of the greatest musicals of all time.
One good turn deserves another:
Here's my celebration of July 4th, again. We should always remember this day isn't just about fireworks and hot-dog-eating contests.
Here's my celebration of July 4th, again. We should always remember this day isn't just about fireworks and hot-dog-eating contests.
Saturday, July 03, 2004
THE MASTER once immortally said:
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Thankfully in today's society men's imaginations can make them happy in the arms of a chambermaid.
Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.
Thankfully in today's society men's imaginations can make them happy in the arms of a chambermaid.
Show-biz + anger = THE CHANCE TO PERMANENTLY REFORM AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe it's just a bunch of leftist Birchites and elitists trying to put another one over on the public.
I don't know; given how THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME has pancaked I'd say rage only goes so far.
Or maybe it's just a bunch of leftist Birchites and elitists trying to put another one over on the public.
I don't know; given how THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME has pancaked I'd say rage only goes so far.
Speaking of moolah, a family wants Princeton Mutual Fund to give back the money it invested -- because the Fund is misspending it!
Isn't that how mutual funds work?
Isn't that how mutual funds work?
It appears people are SCREAMING out of the theaters playing "THE GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME!!!!!" (Paul Krugman, ET AL, AD NAUSEUM). The masterwork's BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-O declined by a "respectable" sounding 39 percent Friday to Friday -- problem is, it's now playing at TWICE AS MANY VENUES. Maybe the revolution hasn't started just yet.
P. R. MEL STILL WINS!!!!!!!!!! (Bleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah.)
P. R. MEL STILL WINS!!!!!!!!!! (Bleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah.)
The real reason for concern at Athens:
It is likely that security vehicles for athletes and V.I.P.'s will have trouble maneuvering through the streets, even though Athens has set aside special lanes for Olympic vehicles, advisory officials said. [Emphasis added.]
Meaning all those CEOs sponsoring the GE Bancorp Obscure Sports and Sappy Featurettes Orgy will have MORE reason to attack their subordinates when they return home.
It is likely that security vehicles for athletes and V.I.P.'s will have trouble maneuvering through the streets, even though Athens has set aside special lanes for Olympic vehicles, advisory officials said. [Emphasis added.]
Meaning all those CEOs sponsoring the GE Bancorp Obscure Sports and Sappy Featurettes Orgy will have MORE reason to attack their subordinates when they return home.
How can CURLEY's (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES campaign in an article on the relatively non-controversial notion that churches should stay above politics? Simple: by calling Southern Baptists CONSERVATIVE and not similarly identifying three very left "advocacy" groups. (Indeed the as-usual ANONYMOUS Stooge appears to have done a little copying and editing from this press release. Oh well, the forces of right can do wrong for right.) This is why religious news coverage STINKS, and this is why NEWS HACKS STINK.
Friday, July 02, 2004
I think both these guys are right. Coach K should quit for LALALand. And he should stay at Duke.
I think he's caught between some rockheads and a hard place.
I think he's caught between some rockheads and a hard place.
Leftists scream once again that we kill a lot of people.
Nazis, Communists, and terrorists kill a lot of people too.
Nazis, Communists, and terrorists kill a lot of people too.
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, another Democratic president will govern by polls.
Survey SAID --
I might not may not perhaps could be won't run for vice-president.
Survey SAID --
I might not may not perhaps could be won't run for vice-president.
SHARON Stone was shocked to learn her agent at ICM, Ed Limato, had flunkies eavesdrop on her phone calls and take notes on their conversations.
Hey YOU, when we consider what YOU'RE famous for....
Hey YOU, when we consider what YOU'RE famous for....
The superannuated rock star whose former liver by rights should be on display in a Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum cops a plea.
See you under arrest again soon!
See you under arrest again soon!
Somehow it is almost superfluous to quote from Genesis confronted with this, but God created beauty wherever He went, making mountains, and flowers, and tigers, and butterflies, and beautiful women (pardon my sex) -- and the planet Saturn.
He also had a sense of humor.
Oooooooooh, John Podhoretz takes on Andy S....
There's no sense coming up with silly arguments to explain how this isn't really the most successful documentary of all time. It is. Deal with it.
...and STERNO:
AS YAHWEH [Oops –- he wrote Stern. --Ed.] SAYS, THE POST DOESN'T LIKE YAHWEH!!!!! [Had to do that for consistency. --Ed.] WHEN THIS LATEST FCC JIHAD BEGAN, I PROPOSED WRITING AN OP-ED FOR THE POST!!!!! THEY WOULDN'T TAKE IT!!!!! THEY DON'T LIKE YAHWEH [Sorry. --Ed.] AND NOW THAT HE'S ANTI-BUSH, THEY ESPECIALLY DON'T LIKE HIM!!!!!!!!!!
1. I don't know how many times RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s tabloid Charmin has flacked for STERNO'S GOD, inflating his audience and sex life; it's beyond count. 2. STERNO doesn't like anything less than total reverence toward his deity. Saying this lower-case lower-depths messiah will determine the election IS "nonsense." DEAL WITH IT, STERNO.
There's no sense coming up with silly arguments to explain how this isn't really the most successful documentary of all time. It is. Deal with it.
...and STERNO:
AS YAHWEH [Oops –- he wrote Stern. --Ed.] SAYS, THE POST DOESN'T LIKE YAHWEH!!!!! [Had to do that for consistency. --Ed.] WHEN THIS LATEST FCC JIHAD BEGAN, I PROPOSED WRITING AN OP-ED FOR THE POST!!!!! THEY WOULDN'T TAKE IT!!!!! THEY DON'T LIKE YAHWEH [Sorry. --Ed.] AND NOW THAT HE'S ANTI-BUSH, THEY ESPECIALLY DON'T LIKE HIM!!!!!!!!!!
1. I don't know how many times RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s tabloid Charmin has flacked for STERNO'S GOD, inflating his audience and sex life; it's beyond count. 2. STERNO doesn't like anything less than total reverence toward his deity. Saying this lower-case lower-depths messiah will determine the election IS "nonsense." DEAL WITH IT, STERNO.
EM and his hack call Pacific Palisades "a tiny place."
You dreaming of the days you could impeach a president?
You dreaming of the days you could impeach a president?
"The margins are getting smaller on a lot of items," lamented Sheldon Wright, a pawnshop owner from Washington state.
Does that mean eBay's P/E eventually goes a few digits south of 100?
Does that mean eBay's P/E eventually goes a few digits south of 100?
On the hundreds of thousands we earn each year we've got to exercise our fingers! Ready? 1-2-3-and lift-2-3-and TYPE-2-3-AND...
S. Robert Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington [SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. -Ed.], recalled studies done in the wake of ABC's 1983 telecast of "The Day After," a popular film about the aftermath of a nuclear war. The movie became a rallying point for nuclear-freeze groups and the subject of news-discussion programs. Yet surveys taken before and after the program aired indicated little change in public opinion about U.S. nuclear and defense policy.
Jack LaLanne could make a FORTUNE as a news biz consultant!
S. Robert Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington [SIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. -Ed.], recalled studies done in the wake of ABC's 1983 telecast of "The Day After," a popular film about the aftermath of a nuclear war. The movie became a rallying point for nuclear-freeze groups and the subject of news-discussion programs. Yet surveys taken before and after the program aired indicated little change in public opinion about U.S. nuclear and defense policy.
Jack LaLanne could make a FORTUNE as a news biz consultant!
Thursday, July 01, 2004
"It can't get any worse, it can only get better," said Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, an arthouse division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. "The guy was so old and past his time. They really haven't revamped the M.P.A.A. ratings system for years. It's almost medieval the way they evaluate the movies."
GOODBYE, DR. EVIL!!!!!
"Let's face it - Valenti, technology's not his expertise."
What does Dan know -- COWS? How the CIA does ACROSTICS? GOOD LUCK, DR. EVIL!!!!!
GOODBYE, DR. EVIL!!!!!
"Let's face it - Valenti, technology's not his expertise."
What does Dan know -- COWS? How the CIA does ACROSTICS? GOOD LUCK, DR. EVIL!!!!!
The late radio writer and Variety flack Carroll Carroll lamented that cable TV could never fill its vast stretches of air time with decent programming. He couldn't even imagine the Web. You know Kinsley.com's marking time when it runs something entitled, "Why Soccer is More American than Baseball" (home-page hed).
Here's predicting a star-spangled bomb. As I said before, the target audience doesn't watch movies, and they know MICKEYMOUSE NIXON financed THE MOVIE.
ALL HAIL THE NEW DR. EVIL!!!!!
Now all Dan has to do is befriend Cicero and cite public-opinion polls.
I want to see him defend THE CONSPIRACY.
Now all Dan has to do is befriend Cicero and cite public-opinion polls.
I want to see him defend THE CONSPIRACY.
The rise of a secular, democratic Iraq could pose a threat to Iran's Shi'ite clerical establishment, which fears it would serve as a powerful model for moderate Iranians who seek change, clerics said.
Ooooh, bad.
Many senior clerics are particularly concerned about any shift in the center of gravity within Shi'ite Islam away from Iran's holy city of Qom, from which clerics wield immense political authority, toward Najaf in neighboring Iraq.
The emergence of Najaf coincides with the rise to political prominence of Iraqi clerics, such as Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, who question the legitimacy of absolute rule by the clergy.
"Now Najaf, as a more moderate center, will regain the place it held for most of the past 1,500 years," said Hadi Qabel, a reformist midranking cleric from Qom.
"It will rejuvenate the role of clerics throughout the Shi'ite world. ... Iraqi moderate clerics like Ayatollah Ali Sistani do not consider ruling the country as their legitimate right," he said.
OOOOOH! VERY bad. Right "BUSH-IS-A-NAZI-WAR CRIMINAL-EVIL" types?
Ooooh, bad.
Many senior clerics are particularly concerned about any shift in the center of gravity within Shi'ite Islam away from Iran's holy city of Qom, from which clerics wield immense political authority, toward Najaf in neighboring Iraq.
The emergence of Najaf coincides with the rise to political prominence of Iraqi clerics, such as Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, who question the legitimacy of absolute rule by the clergy.
"Now Najaf, as a more moderate center, will regain the place it held for most of the past 1,500 years," said Hadi Qabel, a reformist midranking cleric from Qom.
"It will rejuvenate the role of clerics throughout the Shi'ite world. ... Iraqi moderate clerics like Ayatollah Ali Sistani do not consider ruling the country as their legitimate right," he said.
OOOOOH! VERY bad. Right "BUSH-IS-A-NAZI-WAR CRIMINAL-EVIL" types?
Google search for criminal bush: 1,500,000 hits.
Google search for bush criminal: 1,480,000 hits.
Google search for "criminal bush": 3,560 hits.
Google search for "bush criminal": 2,880 hits.
Google search for "bush is a criminal": 1,090 hits.
Yep Saddam, I'd say some people are rootin' for ya!
Google search for bush criminal: 1,480,000 hits.
Google search for "criminal bush": 3,560 hits.
Google search for "bush criminal": 2,880 hits.
Google search for "bush is a criminal": 1,090 hits.
Yep Saddam, I'd say some people are rootin' for ya!
FINALLY:
Calling the new Spider-Man film the best comic-book movie ever made — and it is, without a doubt, the best comic-book movie ever made — is a little like calling a Chicken McNugget the best processed fast-food poultry product ever produced. It's praise, but how substantial can the praise really be, given the source?
And our GRAF of the WEEK:
I've always been an anti-comic-book snob, and I paid a price for it. Unlike many of my friends, I didn't preserve comic books from the 1960s and 1970s in little clear plastic bags. Friends who did have subsequently made thousands of dollars on them by selling them to comic-book stores whose owners and managers always seem to resemble Jabba the Hut — if Jabba the Hut wore a t-shirt with a Metallica logo on it. So maybe I'm a little bitter.
Two-and-three-quarters cheers for John Podhoretz!
Calling the new Spider-Man film the best comic-book movie ever made — and it is, without a doubt, the best comic-book movie ever made — is a little like calling a Chicken McNugget the best processed fast-food poultry product ever produced. It's praise, but how substantial can the praise really be, given the source?
And our GRAF of the WEEK:
I've always been an anti-comic-book snob, and I paid a price for it. Unlike many of my friends, I didn't preserve comic books from the 1960s and 1970s in little clear plastic bags. Friends who did have subsequently made thousands of dollars on them by selling them to comic-book stores whose owners and managers always seem to resemble Jabba the Hut — if Jabba the Hut wore a t-shirt with a Metallica logo on it. So maybe I'm a little bitter.
Two-and-three-quarters cheers for John Podhoretz!
Saddam and the left agree:
"The REAL criminal is BUSH!!!!!"
Think we could do some last-second editing, P. R. MIKE?
"The REAL criminal is BUSH!!!!!"
Think we could do some last-second editing, P. R. MIKE?
The latest ostrich-head-burying from such megabloggers as STERNO is that the red-blue "division" is false. Well how to explain this poll, which shows we're evenly divided on the notion of defending First Amendment rights? I'd bet it's a straight-down-the-middle liberal-conservative split. This isn't division?
Of course I'm not sure how much to trust polls after THIS ONE.
Of course I'm not sure how much to trust polls after THIS ONE.
I was about to ask, "When is a protest rally not a protest rally? When it's not OUR rally!", but someone did report on this rally in Hong Kong.
Now it's up to Wal-Mart.
Now it's up to Wal-Mart.
The other day THE PAPER OF RECORD got a big laugh when the fans at Yankee Stadium booed Mr. Inside. As well they should have: not because he's CON-SER-VATIVE (the root of NAZISM, as moderates like NICHOLAS KRISTOF and THE GLIBERAL never cease to tell us), but because he's another JAMES BAKER, an inveterate fixer who's in it for the dough, and when he leaves office he'll run a huge lobbying firm that can escape legal troubles thanks to its connections. People are right to "watch" Mr. Inside.
When truth is a matter of politics, there is no truth. Thus people can say what they please and know it won't be easily refuted. Worse, in a media dictatorship, truth becomes the power of one's PR. Translated: he with the most toys wins.