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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Monday, November 07, 2005
Already the hacks have come up with copious excuses for people flicking away their wonderful print product: newspapers are becoming "supplemental reading"; we have more readers than ever on the Web; we're not selling discounted papers; we're not giving the product away in hotels; DO-NOT-CALL LISTS; we hiked the newsstand price by a quarter; we changed the design; the dog ate my homework. While we would not deny more people are getting these oafs' idle word associations electronically than ever before, a Web surfer is not SPENDING A HALF HOUR THUMBING THROUGH STORIES AND ADS, OR CLIPPING COUPONS, OR CIRCLING WANT ADS. We would also note that the Web has presumably not caused ONE PAPER to INCREASE its staffing; that ever smaller papers must inevitably mean ever skimpier Web sites; and that we are in TOTAL DENIAL is evidenced by the fact that NOT ONE OF THE IDIOTS CITED HERE BLAMES THE PRODUCT OR EXPRESSES THE SLIGHTEST DESIRE TO IMPROVE IT.
And it surely has NOTHING to do with KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! TYPING LIKE THIS. One excuse we surprisingly didn't hear is that a newspaper can offer a more "unique", "localized" product and therefore beats the impersonal Internet. HOW CAN THAT BE SO WHEN MOST HACKS THINK ALIKE?
And it surely has NOTHING to do with KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! TYPING LIKE THIS. One excuse we surprisingly didn't hear is that a newspaper can offer a more "unique", "localized" product and therefore beats the impersonal Internet. HOW CAN THAT BE SO WHEN MOST HACKS THINK ALIKE?
I think the best way to annoy the living bejesus out of surfers is to be a leading Web site and run the same damned ad all day.
What would happen if Google were named ExxonMobil -- and ExxonMobil were named Google?
Would there really be a difference?
Would there really be a difference?
I've just added my blog to truthlaidbear.com, which I hope will someday help my traffic, but I am currently an "insignificant microbe," and expect to remain so for awhile.
"I assume it's one of the Islamist organisations that have been proscribed (by the federal government)," Mr Stary told ABC Radio National.
We assume so too.
We assume so too.
I hate when $120-BILLION-MARKET-CAP G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE acts up; I've posted six times in the last half hour and have gotten ONE HIT. WHY?
At Saturday night's ball at the JW Marriott's Camelback Inn, Rich Dozer, president of the Diamondbacks, talked about Sen. John McCain's popularity. "He has rock-star status," Rich told the 400 partygoers who were there to raise funds for United Cerebral Palsy's Laura Dozer Center (named for Rich and Karie Dozer's daughter.)
Rub it in, Rich. That's exactly what we want as our next president: a mediacentric megalomaniac who forever compromises while wearing his "ethics" on a sleeve. Rub it in, RICH!
Rub it in, Rich. That's exactly what we want as our next president: a mediacentric megalomaniac who forever compromises while wearing his "ethics" on a sleeve. Rub it in, RICH!
A bunch of researchers gives ammunition for some ninnies' demand for an R rating for smoking, and SAMMY GLICKMAN realizes the untenable position he's in:
"We and others in our industry should do our best to eliminate gratuitous on-screen portrayals of smoking, particularly in movies that children see," Glickman says. "I don't like to be in a position to dictate what a storyteller can or cannot say."
We won't comment on that dictate biz -- THE CONSPIRACY does it every day -- but this must count as progress, however microscopic; DR. EVIL would have carted out the First Amendment hook, line and sinker, and swung his victims by the hooks through their mouths.
"We and others in our industry should do our best to eliminate gratuitous on-screen portrayals of smoking, particularly in movies that children see," Glickman says. "I don't like to be in a position to dictate what a storyteller can or cannot say."
We won't comment on that dictate biz -- THE CONSPIRACY does it every day -- but this must count as progress, however microscopic; DR. EVIL would have carted out the First Amendment hook, line and sinker, and swung his victims by the hooks through their mouths.
Astonishing: this is the first to our knowledge anyone has blamed the French riots on an economic system with 25-hour work weeks and free everything, and suitably high unemployment.
Goodbye welfare state, goodbye Islamism.
Goodbye welfare state, goodbye Islamism.
STERNO! Better keep your shotgun ready at the door: the Senate's going to hold hearings on extending indecency regulations to cable.
STERNO'S fans can expect to see words like JIHADISTS and PRUDES marched out again like the last gathering of the GAR.
STERNO'S fans can expect to see words like JIHADISTS and PRUDES marched out again like the last gathering of the GAR.
And as if to further prove their negative worth, hacks have a way of flinging numbers that have no meaning. Fantasy movie grosses are just the start: today it's a League of Nations appendage's flackery that bird flu will cost $20 quadrillion, or whatever the number is. Numbers like these don't lead people to action, they lead them to baseless fear, or worse, to drowsiness.
Remember Arthur Kent and Ashleigh Banfield? They got a ton of ink, then vanished.
That's one reason NEWS HACKS increasingly exercise me -- they devote growing amounts of their reporting to topics of ultimately NO CONSEQUENCE.
And I don't CARE, HOWIE HAIRSHIRT, how many brilliant "sports columnists, movie critics, restaurant critics, book critics and business sections" you have.
That's one reason NEWS HACKS increasingly exercise me -- they devote growing amounts of their reporting to topics of ultimately NO CONSEQUENCE.
And I don't CARE, HOWIE HAIRSHIRT, how many brilliant "sports columnists, movie critics, restaurant critics, book critics and business sections" you have.
Something called the Swedish Academy of something or other has given what it calls an award to a defunct rock group for the sole purpose of getting its name before the public.
The Nobels, the P-Ulitzers and the Oscars® are reason enough to award awards with a one-way trip to the garbage dump.
The Nobels, the P-Ulitzers and the Oscars® are reason enough to award awards with a one-way trip to the garbage dump.
Abercrombie & Fitch hasn't stopped being stupid.
In fairness though, it's been a long time we've seen a story about it -- and especially one that used the word HIP.
You go girls!
In fairness though, it's been a long time we've seen a story about it -- and especially one that used the word HIP.
You go girls!
Pete Rose Jr., the son of the legendary baseball star, is facing drug trafficking charges, CNN has learned.
Why are we not surprised?
Why are we not surprised?
Figures: LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNCORP will end his career in a PRE-TAPED hugfest with THE FLYING KEYBOARD.
They really should have brought Her Holiness the Lord Goddess Oprah on as well but that would have been too much of a good thing. (BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!)
They really should have brought Her Holiness the Lord Goddess Oprah on as well but that would have been too much of a good thing. (BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!)
GAWKER, the greatest thing since the integrated circuit, fixes a junk poll!
I wonder if NICK DORKEN would have needed to fix a poll if he were sure of himself.
I wonder if NICK DORKEN would have needed to fix a poll if he were sure of himself.
France's biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France, issued a fatwa, or religious decree. It forbade all those "who seek divine grace from taking part in any action that blindly strikes private or public property or can harm others."
I'm sure that will prove extremely helpful for obvious reasons, and especially as the hacks insist it isn't Muslim youth rioting, it's AFRICANS.
I'm sure that will prove extremely helpful for obvious reasons, and especially as the hacks insist it isn't Muslim youth rioting, it's AFRICANS.
Morale, and Profits, Down At the Times
Let me guess: it's all JUDY MILLER's fault. Honest HOWIE HAIRSHIRT, aren't YOU as tired of writing about it as we are of reading about it?
Let me guess: it's all JUDY MILLER's fault. Honest HOWIE HAIRSHIRT, aren't YOU as tired of writing about it as we are of reading about it?
Apparently the latest juke-box musical has been saved by the fact that it's an impersonation. I've said before Broadway's become a kind of Branson with attitude; now someone needs to do a Grand Ole Opry musical to make it complete.
Okay, for ONCE we will not refer to OUR GUVNOR SARCASTICALLY. One should not have been so emotional in predicting a decades-long strike, but I guess lots of us around here had a bad week.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
WALTER!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPYWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!! WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is proof news hacks don't have to be bought; the hole in his head is fully paid for.
And after doing his good deeds for producers he turns to Free Republic and makes a sound like Pee-Wee Herman in his playhouse.
And after doing his good deeds for producers he turns to Free Republic and makes a sound like Pee-Wee Herman in his playhouse.
News hacks may think they can salvage their profits by going an even bigger way onto the Web. But it's already enervatingly profuse with dull writing, and no technology can improve it, as this involved piece of CW junk proves; all manner of slideshows and videos and fancy graphics and Shockwave and Flash won't make pablum go down any easier. Watch out: Dull writing could drive surfers away just as well as print customers.
And why is so much of the blandest, softest, sellingest, most CW typing done by WOMEN?
And why is so much of the blandest, softest, sellingest, most CW typing done by WOMEN?
The prince and the Duchess of Cornwall were watched by several perching turkey vultures — and a large pack of journalists....
No no NO, THIS is TOO EASY.
No no NO, THIS is TOO EASY.
You shouldn'ta done it, Jonah -- we have reason enough to despise blogs of both demagogueries. TRANSLATION: Most big-name bloggers aren't worth reading.
FRESH from the FREEP:
Myspace - A Jihadist tool to get the kid next door?
Doesn't that mean our SAINTED HERO RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! consorts with TERRORISTS?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. He launched FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS!
Myspace - A Jihadist tool to get the kid next door?
Doesn't that mean our SAINTED HERO RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! consorts with TERRORISTS?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. He launched FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS!
I'd venture no guess as to how the people rolled back our state legislayteeyure's idiotic pay raise except that perhaps legislators have become the front men for our societal dysfunction and the fox-guarding-the-chicken-coop contentedness of our superiors, and though many public figures deserve to be yelled at even more than legislators we can never ignore an orating incompetent fattening his wallet.
From some sage advice on how to make BIG MONEY in INVESTING:
12. Get Investment Tips From TV -- The Wall Street guru of the hour is on TV hyperventilating about who-knows-what. Call your broker immediately and tell him you want to load up on whatever the wise man is flogging. Remember: It doesn't have to be a stock, and you can be a contrarian at random. If others buy gold, hoard lead.
Hmmm, I wonder who he could mean?
12. Get Investment Tips From TV -- The Wall Street guru of the hour is on TV hyperventilating about who-knows-what. Call your broker immediately and tell him you want to load up on whatever the wise man is flogging. Remember: It doesn't have to be a stock, and you can be a contrarian at random. If others buy gold, hoard lead.
Hmmm, I wonder who he could mean?
T. O.'s a FIGHTIN' MAN!
Yep, he's truly the CLASS ACT of the NFL.
Update at 8:48 P. M. It gets better!
A team source told Mortensen that Douglas, whose post with the Eagles he re-titled "bad-ass-ador," entered the team's training room Wednesday and announced "I know there are people in here faking injuries." The comment apparently led to the scrum between Owens and Douglas.
Yep -- a CLASS ACT. And it gets even better!
"There's an accumulation of events culminating with a series of things last week, including the very public interview that he did," Banner said. "I think there's a long list of things, some of which you know about and some of which aren't public."
Whatever they are, we sure can't wait to hear them. And T. O., don't let the fans -- er, the DOOR hit you on the way out!
One question, though: why are the sports hacks fulminating over the kind of ATTITUDE the TV AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS ARE ORGASMICALLY CELEBRATING? Sounds like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing but it's hard to tell with a biz with four million hands. I don't think THIS sort of truth telling has anything to do with the bottom falling out of our circ, do you? NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Yep, he's truly the CLASS ACT of the NFL.
Update at 8:48 P. M. It gets better!
A team source told Mortensen that Douglas, whose post with the Eagles he re-titled "bad-ass-ador," entered the team's training room Wednesday and announced "I know there are people in here faking injuries." The comment apparently led to the scrum between Owens and Douglas.
Yep -- a CLASS ACT. And it gets even better!
"There's an accumulation of events culminating with a series of things last week, including the very public interview that he did," Banner said. "I think there's a long list of things, some of which you know about and some of which aren't public."
Whatever they are, we sure can't wait to hear them. And T. O., don't let the fans -- er, the DOOR hit you on the way out!
One question, though: why are the sports hacks fulminating over the kind of ATTITUDE the TV AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS ARE ORGASMICALLY CELEBRATING? Sounds like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand's doing but it's hard to tell with a biz with four million hands. I don't think THIS sort of truth telling has anything to do with the bottom falling out of our circ, do you? NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
I Googled "'bill frist' weak" and got 222,000 links; then I Googled "'howard dean' weak" and got 553,000 links.
Go figure.
P. S. "'george bush' weak" gets 1,680,000 links.
Go figure.
P. S. "'george bush' weak" gets 1,680,000 links.
We know we shouldn't make too much of the BEEEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOO numbers (they're down again for the weekend year-to-year), but we wonder whether the slow leaking of air from the whole MEDIA BIZ doesn't reflect a growing dissatisfaction with the product. We fear it may well be, as the PAUL DRECKs and other apologists say, just a matter of timing or the fluke of luck, or maybe people are staring too much at their computers, and the time must come (unfortunately) when audiences will finally shrink to an unthinking indissoluble hard-core crowd that wouldn't abandon media whatever its dross, but all sorts of media are losing their audiences: newspapers are down, recorded -- SOUND is down, movies are down. (Only TV appears to be holding steady, and that's because it's our national night light.) We suspect if people liked the product they might willingly spend a little more money on it, but we want to believe people are smarter than media types.
Sen. John McCain, potential 2008 presidential candidate, is walking a political tightrope.
Haven't people heard of Jesus?
Haven't people heard of Jesus?
"To those responsible for the violence, I want to say: Be serious ... If you want to live in a fairer, more fraternal society, this is not how to go about it."
TRANSLATION: Can't we all just -- get along?
TRANSLATION: Can't we all just -- get along?
But still we MUST hand it to Mr. Mark for coming up with this fine home-page hed:
• Jennifer Aniston: 7 Things I’d Rather Talk About
Me too.
• Jennifer Aniston: 7 Things I’d Rather Talk About
Me too.
Indeed it would appear the hacks at PEOPLE NEWSMAGAZINE are taking that cover story on AMBITION (subscription, happily, required) seriously, as witness THIS home-page squib:
Boondocks: Funny to the 'N'th Power
Let's see, what network is airing THAT? Jeez KING RICHARD, I haven't the FOGGIEST IDEA. What's this about the feds looking into your CIRCULATION PRACTICES?
Boondocks: Funny to the 'N'th Power
Let's see, what network is airing THAT? Jeez KING RICHARD, I haven't the FOGGIEST IDEA. What's this about the feds looking into your CIRCULATION PRACTICES?
I am beginning to lose faith that Mr. Mark can continue to be THE force for CW that we all want him to be. Somehow draping your rag with a photo montage will not summon visions of the great magazine covers we celebrated just a few weeks ago. Who cares about the first boomers turning 60? Mr. Mark is only what, 40? He has three decades to continue to inflict himself on us. He couldn't even come up with a good movie squib this week. Of course the only question is who gets to plug the CGI fests at the end of the year. That gets the editorial juices flowing -- as writing a decent rag does NOT.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
Not too long ago we praised Entergy for the great job it was doing restoring power in its precinct, and now it wants to turn to UNCLE SUCKER for SUCCOR.
Oh well, we'll take the REUT's word for it about ConEd, but why is capitalism so often just socialism with a dollar sign?
Oh well, we'll take the REUT's word for it about ConEd, but why is capitalism so often just socialism with a dollar sign?
Murdoch would love to buy WSJ, but knows it's not for sale
SHUCKS! He'd be the PERFECT owner! His FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News/Weekly Standard/NEW YORK POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the CONSERVATIVE EDITION, and His 20th Century Fox/Sun/FX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the LIBERAL EDITION! GO FOR IT!
SHUCKS! He'd be the PERFECT owner! His FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News/Weekly Standard/NEW YORK POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the CONSERVATIVE EDITION, and His 20th Century Fox/Sun/FX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! side could run the LIBERAL EDITION! GO FOR IT!
In an off-year election, campaigns for governor in New Jersey and Virginia have turned especially nasty, dragging in Adolf Hitler and an ex-wife's claim of betrayal in negative ads that pollsters say have turned off the public.
And that's not all. A paralyzed teen in a wheelchair criticized one candidate's stem-cell research stance in New Jersey, records have been distorted in both states, and a $470,000 loan to a politically connected ex-lover sparked accusations of wrongdoing in New Jersey. Spending records were broken in both states, while polls show voters are unenthusiastic.
Here's the nice thing about being a NEWS HACK: you can harrumph and gallumph how AWFUL negative campaigning is and then THANK GOD IT'S HELPING YOUR PAYCHECK. GanNETt is well-positioned: it owns a TV station in Washington and seven newspapers in the two states, so it can reap the rewards of hypocrisy numerous ways.
So! We can have our rancid cake and eat it too! But you'd better gird for some AWFUL numbers from the ABC.
And that's not all. A paralyzed teen in a wheelchair criticized one candidate's stem-cell research stance in New Jersey, records have been distorted in both states, and a $470,000 loan to a politically connected ex-lover sparked accusations of wrongdoing in New Jersey. Spending records were broken in both states, while polls show voters are unenthusiastic.
Here's the nice thing about being a NEWS HACK: you can harrumph and gallumph how AWFUL negative campaigning is and then THANK GOD IT'S HELPING YOUR PAYCHECK. GanNETt is well-positioned: it owns a TV station in Washington and seven newspapers in the two states, so it can reap the rewards of hypocrisy numerous ways.
So! We can have our rancid cake and eat it too! But you'd better gird for some AWFUL numbers from the ABC.
The Dalai Lama recognizes wars may be just, but he is realist enough not go up against the Kingdom of Wal-Mart.
What an irony this is a YAHOO! link.
What an irony this is a YAHOO! link.
The HACKS are jumping from the proverbial frying pan into the fire covering the French riots, and their already infinitessimal truthfulness is shrinking to a cinder. We ruefully note too they're engaging in euphemisms to describe who's causing the attacks; the word of the day seems to be "Africans" -- and the HACKS are so dense they don't see the RACIST overtones of trying not to describe who the rioters are -- Muslims of African descent. There is something about riots that causes hacks to go into their preaching mode or their ostrich mode, and when they do, we'd prefer they do their burrow-in-a-cave-and-stay-there mode.
So far, though, the only evidence of coordination is Internet blogs by teenagers urging copycat violence elsewhere in France, and the use of mobile telephones to apparently track police movements.
PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PROFESSOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do Pat Boone and Bono have in common? It turns out they are both fans of the Rev. Billy Graham.
Which proves his usefulness.
Which proves his usefulness.
Who knows? Maybe His scribblers felt sorry for the God for reporting His worst performance in FOUR YEARS. A few rate hikes and He'll be THE DARLING OF AMERICA'S LUXURY NEWS SUITES again.
LET THEM EAT ENDORSEMENTS!!!!! ST. WARREN'S TOENAIL FUNGUS REVIEW (YOUR HOLINESS!!!!!) has issued a RINGING AFFIRMATION that PAPERS should NOT RUN ENDORSEMENTS: it supports 16 DEMOCRATS and TWO REPUBLICANS for the Virginia House of Delegates. In so many words the editors at THE SEAT OF ALL WISDOM have told their readers to go to HELL. They do not now believe that they need even wear a fig leaf of objectivity; this makes it official. And no, we do not recognize any WALL OF SEPARATION between editorial and reporting, as both sides root from common sidelines against their readers.
And yet ST. WARREN's cherubim will, in typical NEWS HACK fashion, continue to TWIST THE KNIFE in OUR BACK by malignly insisting they ARE SO IMPARTIAL, which makes one hope more than a few of these scribblers will spend some time in the afterlife wedged under a DISEASED TOENAIL.
P. S. We can only wonder what the ratio is of political endorsements in the big papers. SIEG HEIL!
And yet ST. WARREN's cherubim will, in typical NEWS HACK fashion, continue to TWIST THE KNIFE in OUR BACK by malignly insisting they ARE SO IMPARTIAL, which makes one hope more than a few of these scribblers will spend some time in the afterlife wedged under a DISEASED TOENAIL.
P. S. We can only wonder what the ratio is of political endorsements in the big papers. SIEG HEIL!
Democrats Move to Exploit Iraq Missteps
TRANSLATION: All the party of Moveon.org has is retreat, withdraw and prosecute. How do Harry "Secret Fundraiser" Reid and Congresswoman Babs expect to win back control of government with loonies on their side?
TRANSLATION: All the party of Moveon.org has is retreat, withdraw and prosecute. How do Harry "Secret Fundraiser" Reid and Congresswoman Babs expect to win back control of government with loonies on their side?
Friday, November 04, 2005
DER HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS OF THE MONTH:
PERRYOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) -- A bomb squad blew up a metal pipe that had a battery, wires, rope and an electrical switch, only to realize it was an eighth-grade science project.
"An electromagnetic fishing pole," Allegheny County Bomb Squad Sgt. Robert Clark said, holding the contraption with the battery blown off.
PERRYOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) -- A bomb squad blew up a metal pipe that had a battery, wires, rope and an electrical switch, only to realize it was an eighth-grade science project.
"An electromagnetic fishing pole," Allegheny County Bomb Squad Sgt. Robert Clark said, holding the contraption with the battery blown off.
With the fate of the world and BROADCAST JERNALISM hanging in the balance, ROSIE'S NEPHEW, who has already sacrificed his HEALTH for the truth, gets into a shoving match with a NONBELIEVER.
This may not be KENNETH, but he's getting there.
This may not be KENNETH, but he's getting there.
THE CONSPIRACY, stung by the GREAT PUBLICITY, is offering GRANDDAD an INSTALLMENT PLAN.
This from the men who perfected ACCOUNTING.
This from the men who perfected ACCOUNTING.
Surprise: Coke's ditching its Vanilla flavor. A rememberance of the taste and we know why: vanilla extract and sugar in fizzy water. RIP.
More doo-dads for your screen:
[B]y Bill Gate’s [SIC!] own admission, times are changing. Startup Zimbra has already developed an impressive and full-featured substitute for Microsoft’s collaborative enterprise software. This software gives users all kinds of AJAX “mash-ups,” meaning that different AJAX applications with different features are mixed together making "Frankenstein-type" programs--only they work surprisingly well. For instance, mousing over an address in an e-mail received with Zimbra causes a small Google Maps map of the address to display next to the address. Mousing over a time or date brings up your calendar of that time.
Pretty soon any time you click on anything you'll get a menu with fifty options. Frankenstein may be all too apt.
And Bill's getting into the "portal" biz. Don't we have enough look-alike stations to nowhere?
[B]y Bill Gate’s [SIC!] own admission, times are changing. Startup Zimbra has already developed an impressive and full-featured substitute for Microsoft’s collaborative enterprise software. This software gives users all kinds of AJAX “mash-ups,” meaning that different AJAX applications with different features are mixed together making "Frankenstein-type" programs--only they work surprisingly well. For instance, mousing over an address in an e-mail received with Zimbra causes a small Google Maps map of the address to display next to the address. Mousing over a time or date brings up your calendar of that time.
Pretty soon any time you click on anything you'll get a menu with fifty options. Frankenstein may be all too apt.
And Bill's getting into the "portal" biz. Don't we have enough look-alike stations to nowhere?
Police broke up a poker game at a private club, arrested 95 people and seized $25,000 in what they called the city's biggest gambling raid since Prohibition.
You mean it wasn't on television?
You mean it wasn't on television?
At Wednesday night's black-tie White House dinner for the Prince of Wales and his consort, Camilla, the royal missus committed the selfless act of wearing such a dull ensemble that she made first lady Laura Bush look as though she had stepped from the cover of a glamourpuss magazine. Standing alone, Mrs. Bush looked lovely. But next to Camilla, whose Robinson Valentino blazer and skirt made her look like a large rectangle, the first lady reminded one of a radiant bride shining brightly next to a dutifully bland bridesmaid.
We could say something about squares, but that's too easy. (We like the princie anyway.)
One of the 39,562 reasons I cannot STAND NEWS HACKS is the "FAMILY-NEWSPAPER" gag. Usually the hacks trot it out when they're defending something but flat-out afraid to defend it. Well if what they're defending can't be put in plain language, mightn't that make it indefensible? NEWS HACKS will say they only use it to keep from offending people, a miserable laff riot as they go overboard with the most egregious offense every day. Rather than resort to this moldy strategem, it might be better if the HACKS didn't write on some things at ALL.
Carter condemns abortion culture
It had been better to have this moral suasion, say, 28 years ago, but we'll take it.
It had been better to have this moral suasion, say, 28 years ago, but we'll take it.
Dana "Surfer Dude" Rohrabacher gets an option to have his SITCOM produced!
Well, it must be a sitcom. He's a CONGRESSMAN, right?
Following the sale of the script to Joseph Medawar, a little-known producer, Rohrabacher helped introduce Medawar to at least five Republican congressmen and staff members at the House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee in 2004. At the time, Medawar was pitching his latest Hollywood project — a TV series about the Department of Homeland Security. [PFFH-HH-HH!!!!!]
One of those congressmen was former Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), then chair of the Homeland Security Committee. Rohrabacher said he also made calls that helped Medawar and his crew gain access to officials in federal law enforcement agencies who briefed them on the inner workings of the federal government.
It IS a sitcom!
Well, it must be a sitcom. He's a CONGRESSMAN, right?
Following the sale of the script to Joseph Medawar, a little-known producer, Rohrabacher helped introduce Medawar to at least five Republican congressmen and staff members at the House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee in 2004. At the time, Medawar was pitching his latest Hollywood project — a TV series about the Department of Homeland Security. [PFFH-HH-HH!!!!!]
One of those congressmen was former Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach), then chair of the Homeland Security Committee. Rohrabacher said he also made calls that helped Medawar and his crew gain access to officials in federal law enforcement agencies who briefed them on the inner workings of the federal government.
It IS a sitcom!
Great news from Ethiopia: it has the French disease too -- and this being THE REUT, it would NEVER tell us who makes up the majority of Ethiopians.
Mike Reidel is in EXCELLENT form today: he's saying Steve Wynn's expensive puppet-show Broadway in Vegas is a BUST, in part because
"Q" may...be too sophisticated for Vegas audiences, whose tastes generally run to animal acts, Celine Dion and slot machines. [PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!]
And I'd say Warner Bros. should stick to -- movies but all it makes are FRANCHISES.
"Q" may...be too sophisticated for Vegas audiences, whose tastes generally run to animal acts, Celine Dion and slot machines. [PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!]
And I'd say Warner Bros. should stick to -- movies but all it makes are FRANCHISES.
“I don’t know if an oil company can be liked or what it can say or do to be liked.”
You mean ADVERTISING HAS ITS LIMITS?
And here's the awful thing: substitute "any" for "an oil" and you have big business's visceral hatred of America in a nutshell.
You mean ADVERTISING HAS ITS LIMITS?
And here's the awful thing: substitute "any" for "an oil" and you have big business's visceral hatred of America in a nutshell.
Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-da-DUT-DUT!
If "Chicken Little," the first of four computer-generated cartoons from Disney's revamped animation division, is the best the studio can do, it had better continue negotiating with Pixar.
Can you imagine a line like that in a review fifty years ago?
Could anyone imagine the -- MOVIES of today fifty years ago?
If "Chicken Little," the first of four computer-generated cartoons from Disney's revamped animation division, is the best the studio can do, it had better continue negotiating with Pixar.
Can you imagine a line like that in a review fifty years ago?
Could anyone imagine the -- MOVIES of today fifty years ago?
It's 2005, and the spy-novel men are American officials whose un-American treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism has shamed our nation. [Home-page tease]
I'm thinking now every time NEWS HACKS have a beef with people in our government they'll call it "un-American." (Oddly and predictably, the word isn't in the article.) I wouldn't do that, St. Warren. The word originated with Communist-hunters, who were (as we all know from your indoctrina -- from your REPORTING) the height of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. Perhaps un-American should be expunged from the NEWS HACK'S vocabulary because it is a firecracker of a word, or maybe a Molotov cocktail, one whose sole purpose is to inflict hurt. Problem is, your firecrackers have a way of boomeranging.
I'm thinking now every time NEWS HACKS have a beef with people in our government they'll call it "un-American." (Oddly and predictably, the word isn't in the article.) I wouldn't do that, St. Warren. The word originated with Communist-hunters, who were (as we all know from your indoctrina -- from your REPORTING) the height of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. Perhaps un-American should be expunged from the NEWS HACK'S vocabulary because it is a firecracker of a word, or maybe a Molotov cocktail, one whose sole purpose is to inflict hurt. Problem is, your firecrackers have a way of boomeranging.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
DOW 36,000 and his GANG DO IT AGAIN:
It is a human trait to sympathize with a noble underdog -- but it is also a problem for a free society. For it amounts to acting on prejudice rather than on principle, which is just what advocates of civil rights should be against.
Charles Payne, a commentator on Fox News and CEO of Wall Street Strategies, this week came to the defense of two groups that liberals just love to hate -- oil and pharmaceutical companies.
Payne, who has been described by the liberal blog Newshounds as "the Fox token-minority-who-supports Bush," (how else are you going to keep minorities in the Democratic camp except through sophisticated racial epithet?) argued on Tuesday that threats, such as Dennis Kucinich's Gas Price Spike Act of 2005 to relieve oil companies of their profits and those against pharmaceutical companies to violate their patents on drugs against such epidemics as avian flu, amount to almost a communist attack on property rights.
One doesn't need to go that far, but there is a tendency to forget what it is that Rosa Parks -- and before her our forefathers were fighting for -- when the "victims" of the theft are not sympathetic. It is why, when such things are proposed, that we need our courts to protect our individual rights, but it is also why we need to ourselves look at cases in their simplest terms -- to seek out the principle that we are acting upon, and recognize the rights we may undermine.
I think it is time to let Rosa Parks rest in peace -- and for DOW 36,000 and his GANG to SHUT UP.
It is a human trait to sympathize with a noble underdog -- but it is also a problem for a free society. For it amounts to acting on prejudice rather than on principle, which is just what advocates of civil rights should be against.
Charles Payne, a commentator on Fox News and CEO of Wall Street Strategies, this week came to the defense of two groups that liberals just love to hate -- oil and pharmaceutical companies.
Payne, who has been described by the liberal blog Newshounds as "the Fox token-minority-who-supports Bush," (how else are you going to keep minorities in the Democratic camp except through sophisticated racial epithet?) argued on Tuesday that threats, such as Dennis Kucinich's Gas Price Spike Act of 2005 to relieve oil companies of their profits and those against pharmaceutical companies to violate their patents on drugs against such epidemics as avian flu, amount to almost a communist attack on property rights.
One doesn't need to go that far, but there is a tendency to forget what it is that Rosa Parks -- and before her our forefathers were fighting for -- when the "victims" of the theft are not sympathetic. It is why, when such things are proposed, that we need our courts to protect our individual rights, but it is also why we need to ourselves look at cases in their simplest terms -- to seek out the principle that we are acting upon, and recognize the rights we may undermine.
I think it is time to let Rosa Parks rest in peace -- and for DOW 36,000 and his GANG to SHUT UP.
Bush's Integrity Is Questioned According to Post-ABC Poll
And WE'RE the people who can QUESTION IT!
ST. WARREN!! WILL YOU STOP WITH THAT TOENAIL FUNGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And WE'RE the people who can QUESTION IT!
ST. WARREN!! WILL YOU STOP WITH THAT TOENAIL FUNGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The EDDIE RENDELL of VEGAS has a SUGGESTION:
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
The bad news is it would deprive the world of ART. The good news is the same media who'd deplore it might make money out of it.
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman has suggested that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.
The bad news is it would deprive the world of ART. The good news is the same media who'd deplore it might make money out of it.
The looniest leftists had another mass psychosis yesterday -- and oddly enough we didn't hear of it until we stumbled onto this Trib piece which natch downplays the organizers, who include WACKOS for STALINISM.
Oh well, such is the life of being forever angry -- people take it for granted.
ST. WARREN wants PRESIDENT ROVE to RESIGN, meaning he WON'T.
Meantime His Loyal Servant WHINY CRYBABY RICHARD wanders into JORDAN (we presume by accident) and opines WE'VE TURNED THE MIDDLE EAST INTO A DISASTER!!!!!
Your Holiness, we know You believe Yourself beyond the laws of man and the Universe (which after all You created), but will the time ever come when You may be WRONG?
Meantime His Loyal Servant WHINY CRYBABY RICHARD wanders into JORDAN (we presume by accident) and opines WE'VE TURNED THE MIDDLE EAST INTO A DISASTER!!!!!
Your Holiness, we know You believe Yourself beyond the laws of man and the Universe (which after all You created), but will the time ever come when You may be WRONG?
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP:
Criticism of media coverage of the Iraq war and the effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books [ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. --ED]....
“I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region.”...
Massing also said the media’s fear of causing a negative reaction from the American public might be responsible for the incomplete coverage.
Which may have something to do, Mike, with our P-Ulitzer-winning WITHDRAWAL FROM INDOCHINA.
Criticism of media coverage of the Iraq war and the effects that it has on the public dominated a speech given yesterday at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) by Michael A. Massing ’74, contributing editor for the Columbia Journalism Review and the New York Review of Books [ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. --ED]....
“I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region.”...
Massing also said the media’s fear of causing a negative reaction from the American public might be responsible for the incomplete coverage.
Which may have something to do, Mike, with our P-Ulitzer-winning WITHDRAWAL FROM INDOCHINA.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
SAM LITTLE DOES IT AGAIN:
LGF reader Baikal emailed about these upsetting pictures posted by Bareknucklepolitics.com with the title: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. Those readers who were skeptical of the title, it turns out, were correct....
You didn't sound so skeptical when you FIRST POSTED IT, SAM.
One of these days there'll be a big scandal in the blogosphere, maybe not BLATHERGATE, but a lot of people will be embarrassed -- and SAM LITTLE will be at the CENTER of it.
LGF reader Baikal emailed about these upsetting pictures posted by Bareknucklepolitics.com with the title: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. Those readers who were skeptical of the title, it turns out, were correct....
You didn't sound so skeptical when you FIRST POSTED IT, SAM.
One of these days there'll be a big scandal in the blogosphere, maybe not BLATHERGATE, but a lot of people will be embarrassed -- and SAM LITTLE will be at the CENTER of it.
Officials deny profiling of Muslims detained at Giants game
THIS looks like a job for -- SU - PERHOOPER!!!!!
THIS looks like a job for -- SU - PERHOOPER!!!!!
Here's good news: a developer's renovating the Book-Cadillac, the grande dame of Detroit hostelries that has known better days. EDDIE would attribute this to HIS ELIXIR of "GAMING," and HIS RENDELLMINIUMS, but a building like that is just too good to tear down.
Now to see to it that Detroit is no longer a city of the dead building.
Far be it from us to say a good word for G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE, but its book digitizing process could save some worthy literature from total oblivion in the vaults. It does not escape us either that several of the biggest names in "publishing" are members of THE CONSPIRACY, which has always viewed its vaults as a JUNK YARD.
Shucks, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang goes to the scrap heap.
By rights every Broadway theme park belongs there.
By rights every Broadway theme park belongs there.
The sacrifices of an ac-TOR:
Strathairn Puffed on Dozens of Cigarettes
Well, it was for a -- NOBLE CAUSE.
Good night, and (COUGH! COUGH!) good luck.
Strathairn Puffed on Dozens of Cigarettes
Well, it was for a -- NOBLE CAUSE.
Good night, and (COUGH! COUGH!) good luck.
Well this should make the HACKS' day:
Senior al Qaeda captive escaped US prison: official
And what peculiar set of circumstances led to this fine mess? Was this an INSIDE job? Or just our government's own smiley-faced brand of carelessness?
Senior al Qaeda captive escaped US prison: official
And what peculiar set of circumstances led to this fine mess? Was this an INSIDE job? Or just our government's own smiley-faced brand of carelessness?
Elsewhere at PEOPLE WARNER:
Warner Cuts More Than 5% of Studio Staff
We feel sorry for those who lost their jobs, but every time there are big layoffs in BIGMEDIA the chances of it INFLICTING itself on us do grow microscopically smaller.
Warner Cuts More Than 5% of Studio Staff
We feel sorry for those who lost their jobs, but every time there are big layoffs in BIGMEDIA the chances of it INFLICTING itself on us do grow microscopically smaller.
GOBBLEDYGOOK:
50 says he disagrees with West's infamous [!!!!!!!!!!] statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," proclaimed during a September telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.
"I think people responded to it the best way they can," 50 told ContactMusic.com. "What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from."
Instead, 50 said, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God."
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAH!!!!!! AN HONORARY CON-SER-VA-TIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND HE LOVES GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50 says he disagrees with West's infamous [!!!!!!!!!!] statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," proclaimed during a September telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims.
"I think people responded to it the best way they can," 50 told ContactMusic.com. "What Kanye West was saying, I don't know where that came from."
Instead, 50 said, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God."
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAH!!!!!! AN HONORARY CON-SER-VA-TIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND HE LOVES GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An 800-pound gorilla has entered Romy's office.
We knew what the hacks were up to when they started saying GRIM with a laugh. We know what they're up to with their on-the-spot videos of Baghdad bombings. We know what they're up to when they PERSONALIZE the coverage. Several millions in Southeast Asia might know what they're up to as well, but they're not alive to know, thanks to the AWARD-WINNING EXPLOITS OF NEWS HACKS.
We knew what the hacks were up to when they started saying GRIM with a laugh. We know what they're up to with their on-the-spot videos of Baghdad bombings. We know what they're up to when they PERSONALIZE the coverage. Several millions in Southeast Asia might know what they're up to as well, but they're not alive to know, thanks to the AWARD-WINNING EXPLOITS OF NEWS HACKS.
The size of the market for such conservative films first grew clear in the late sixties and seventies, when Hollywood nearly stopped making them. Swept up in the era’s revolutionary spirit, the industry junked its decades-old production code—which mandated respect for marriage, the military, and religion, and forbade cussin’ and nudity—and went in for movies geared to “a rebellious generation . . . challenging every cherished tenet of American society,” as leftist film scholars Seth Cagin and Philip Dray approvingly put it. Production-code-era Hollywood hadn’t ignored the darker side of human existence, but even its hardest-boiled noir films weren’t anything like this. The countercultural movies of “New Hollywood”—such as Arthur Penn’s violent, criminal-glorifying Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Robert Altman’s cynical antiwar comedy M.A.S.H. (1970), Hal Ashby’s sordid paean to the sexual revolution Shampoo (1975), and Martin Scorcese’s urban nightmare Taxi Driver (1976)—wowed critics, who shared their anti-establishment and anti-American attitudes.
But moviegoers turned up their noses. Weekly film attendance in 1967, the first year after Hollywood dumped the production code, plummeted to 17.8 million, from 38 million the year before (television had already eroded moviegoing from its late-1940s peak of 90 million a week). “In a single one-year period,” Medved notes, “more than half the movie audience disappeared—by far the largest one-year decline in the history of the motion picture business.” That audience then hovered around 20 million for the next three decades, despite a growing U.S. population.
There’s no mystery why so many stay home. Still dominated by countercultural types, Hollywood keeps churning out “edgy,” envelope-pushing movies—more than half of its films receive R ratings, for example—and Americans keep giving them thumbs-down, as the correlation of profit and ratings shows. Only five of the 50 top-grossing movies of all time have R ratings, and 13 of the top 100. A big 2005 Dove Foundation study examined the 3,000 most widely distributed Hollywood movies from 1989 through 2003 in each ratings category. It found PG- and PG-13-rated films between three and four times more profitable on average ththan R-rated ones—and G films, like this year’s hit nature documentary, March of the Penguins blahblahblah....
We know all about Hollywood's ATTITUDE, and how it thumbs it nose at the profit motive along with its audience, but isn't this the same Brian C. Anderson who had to make himself famous as the #1 FAN of SOUTH PARK?
But moviegoers turned up their noses. Weekly film attendance in 1967, the first year after Hollywood dumped the production code, plummeted to 17.8 million, from 38 million the year before (television had already eroded moviegoing from its late-1940s peak of 90 million a week). “In a single one-year period,” Medved notes, “more than half the movie audience disappeared—by far the largest one-year decline in the history of the motion picture business.” That audience then hovered around 20 million for the next three decades, despite a growing U.S. population.
There’s no mystery why so many stay home. Still dominated by countercultural types, Hollywood keeps churning out “edgy,” envelope-pushing movies—more than half of its films receive R ratings, for example—and Americans keep giving them thumbs-down, as the correlation of profit and ratings shows. Only five of the 50 top-grossing movies of all time have R ratings, and 13 of the top 100. A big 2005 Dove Foundation study examined the 3,000 most widely distributed Hollywood movies from 1989 through 2003 in each ratings category. It found PG- and PG-13-rated films between three and four times more profitable on average ththan R-rated ones—and G films, like this year’s hit nature documentary, March of the Penguins blahblahblah....
We know all about Hollywood's ATTITUDE, and how it thumbs it nose at the profit motive along with its audience, but isn't this the same Brian C. Anderson who had to make himself famous as the #1 FAN of SOUTH PARK?
Meantime turnips made PEOPLE WARNER richer. There's nothing like the taste of TURNIP GREENS, right KING RICHARD?
Also the company's being investigated for playing TWX with its magazine circulation. Given that it's a prime member of THE CONSPIRACY we'll say GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
Also the company's being investigated for playing TWX with its magazine circulation. Given that it's a prime member of THE CONSPIRACY we'll say GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
Cablevision Approves $3 Billion Dividend
Well! That's a lot of "value for the money" -- and EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!
Well! That's a lot of "value for the money" -- and EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE!
More impartial, unbiased news:
US terrorism specialists Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon have reached a stark conclusion about the war on terrorism: the United States is losing.
Despite an early US victory over the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, President Bush's policies have created a haven for terrorism in Iraq that escalates the potential for Islamic violence against Europe and the United States,
the two former Clinton administration officials say.
Wait a second, Dave: shouldn't that be insurgency, or militancy? Or do we get a special dispensation when a REPUBLICAN's in the White House?
PLUS IT'S A PLUG FOR A BOOK. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD (MILITANCY DIVISION) TO DAVE!
P. S.
US fortunes could improve, the authors say, if Washington took a number of politically challenging steps, such as bolstering public diplomacy with trade pacts aimed at expanding middle-class influence in countries such as Pakistan.
TRANSLATION: We're DEMOCRATS -- and we don't have THE FOGGIEST NOTION WHAT WE'RE DOING.
US terrorism specialists Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon have reached a stark conclusion about the war on terrorism: the United States is losing.
Despite an early US victory over the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, President Bush's policies have created a haven for terrorism in Iraq that escalates the potential for Islamic violence against Europe and the United States,
the two former Clinton administration officials say.
Wait a second, Dave: shouldn't that be insurgency, or militancy? Or do we get a special dispensation when a REPUBLICAN's in the White House?
PLUS IT'S A PLUG FOR A BOOK. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD (MILITANCY DIVISION) TO DAVE!
P. S.
US fortunes could improve, the authors say, if Washington took a number of politically challenging steps, such as bolstering public diplomacy with trade pacts aimed at expanding middle-class influence in countries such as Pakistan.
TRANSLATION: We're DEMOCRATS -- and we don't have THE FOGGIEST NOTION WHAT WE'RE DOING.
I think this is why the labor movement is kaput these days: when members strike, it's often a blameless third party that suffers.
Here we go! A big shareholder wants KnightRidder to sell itself -- which, if it's done right, could lead to lots of newspaper companies selling themselves, meaning we get two or three giant newspaper companies, which, in practical terms, would merely formalize the press's conformity.
The prima donnas here in Philthydelphia are hearing it from the fans:
As an aside, union spokesman Bob Bedard asked for "a little forgiveness" from the public for the inconveniences caused by the strike.
But Bob, both sides wanted this strike! The longer the better! Still, as I said, when it's over around February or March, you'll face worse than anger, you'll face indifference -- and if there's any justice the incompetents at SEPTA will lay off a few of your lazy buddies as a present.
As an aside, union spokesman Bob Bedard asked for "a little forgiveness" from the public for the inconveniences caused by the strike.
But Bob, both sides wanted this strike! The longer the better! Still, as I said, when it's over around February or March, you'll face worse than anger, you'll face indifference -- and if there's any justice the incompetents at SEPTA will lay off a few of your lazy buddies as a present.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Well, perhaps it's more polite to have a warning before you get hosed. A Manhattan judge said Tuesday that he is likely to deny a motion that would have dismissed most of a lawsuit challenging Richard Grasso's $187.5 million severance package from the New York Stock Exchange.
FREE ENTERPRISE CON-SER-VA-TIVES! YOU MUST PROTEST THIS OUTRAGEOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE! WHO SAYS LIBERALS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN PROTEST? ORGANIZE "CITIZENS FOR GRASSO"! THOUSANDS would sign up! Like LARRY "GREED" KUDLOW, and DOW 36,000, and, uh, er...
THE STAFF OF REASON!
FREE ENTERPRISE CON-SER-VA-TIVES! YOU MUST PROTEST THIS OUTRAGEOUS MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE! WHO SAYS LIBERALS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN PROTEST? ORGANIZE "CITIZENS FOR GRASSO"! THOUSANDS would sign up! Like LARRY "GREED" KUDLOW, and DOW 36,000, and, uh, er...
THE STAFF OF REASON!
3 stabbed near White House Homeless man in custody.
Another free thinker exercising his First Amendment rights, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Another free thinker exercising his First Amendment rights, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
From a Sun-Times profit center:
Roger Ebert's Current Reviews
• G (R)
• The Legend of Zorro (PG)
• The Night of the Hunter (Not rated)
• Nine Lives (R)
• Prime (PG-13)
• Shopgirl (R)
• Three... Extremes (R)
• The Weather Man (R)
• Where the Truth Lies (Not rated)
Not counting The Night of the Hunter -- an old film and a "classic" film and therefore from another galaxy -- let's do the math: 23.5 stars divided by 7 movies equals 3.357 stars. It is foolish to judge reviews by star ratings -- they only obscure matters, which is why movie ad-blurbists love them -- and maybe Rog has been in a mood lately, but obviously he thinks we're in a MEGA-PLATINUM AGE OF MOVIES. I've long believed Rog and ESPECIALLY his late unlamented partner in millions GENE raved three-quarters of the movies they "reviewed," and judging that GENE's widow put his condo up for $8.25 million I'd say they did well by it. Whether WE'VE done well by it is, natch, another matter.
Roger Ebert's Current Reviews
• G (R)
• The Legend of Zorro (PG)
• The Night of the Hunter (Not rated)
• Nine Lives (R)
• Prime (PG-13)
• Shopgirl (R)
• Three... Extremes (R)
• The Weather Man (R)
• Where the Truth Lies (Not rated)
Not counting The Night of the Hunter -- an old film and a "classic" film and therefore from another galaxy -- let's do the math: 23.5 stars divided by 7 movies equals 3.357 stars. It is foolish to judge reviews by star ratings -- they only obscure matters, which is why movie ad-blurbists love them -- and maybe Rog has been in a
mood lately, but obviously he thinks we're in a MEGA-PLATINUM AGE OF MOVIES. I've long believed Rog and ESPECIALLY his late unlamented partner in millions GENE raved three-quarters of the movies they "reviewed," and judging that GENE's widow put his condo up for $8.25 million I'd say they did well by it. Whether WE'VE done well by it is, natch, another matter.
Ivan Askwith, a media analyst with MIT's Convergence Culture Consortium, writes frequently on the intersection of technology, entertainment, and culture.
Today is Stale.com's day; now this analyst has just posted about how Steve's video iPod will allow "darker" television and promote shows with "cult followings" -- proof that MIT, alas, has dummies too.
Today is Stale.com's day; now this analyst has just posted about how Steve's video iPod will allow "darker" television and promote shows with "cult followings" -- proof that MIT, alas, has dummies too.
Aidan Wasley teaches at the University of Georgia, in Athens, Ga.
So why did you have to deliver a lecture on bad movie-blurb writing in Stale.com?
Honestly, some schools should fire their professors and just be athuhletic programs.
So why did you have to deliver a lecture on bad movie-blurb writing in Stale.com?
Honestly, some schools should fire their professors and just be athuhletic programs.
I'm also in a bad mood because three people shut down our corner supermarket because they couldn't stand the noise of its deliveries -- and it's going to be replaced by a 40,000th CVS.
To quote the last line of the story:
"You know, the Hicks Street people [i.e., the people doing the complaining] should really recall an old proverb: Be careful what you wish for."
To quote the last line of the story:
"You know, the Hicks Street people [i.e., the people doing the complaining] should really recall an old proverb: Be careful what you wish for."
There is nothing like G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER being down for at least six hours to put me in a bad mood.
Unless it's G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE hitting another NEW RECORD HIGH.
Unless it's G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE hitting another NEW RECORD HIGH.
How fitting that G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER should have a breakdown on ANOTHER RECORD HIGH DAY.
Just remember, Larry and Sergey: what's happening to DELL could someday happen -- to YOU!
Just remember, Larry and Sergey: what's happening to DELL could someday happen -- to YOU!
The American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers made VIACON a profit.
Thank you for your timely charitable donation -- of OUR money.
Thank you for your timely charitable donation -- of OUR money.
Some hack says "diversity" trumps all.
This from the second most monotheistic paper in America.
HEY ST. WARREN! WHAT'S WITH YOUR OBSESSION WITH TOENAIL FUNGUS?
This from the second most monotheistic paper in America.
HEY ST. WARREN! WHAT'S WITH YOUR OBSESSION WITH TOENAIL FUNGUS?