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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Saturday, February 25, 2006
The secretive greedmeister once of Bill's Bugdom wants a new TAXPAYER-FINANCED ARENA for his team-- FAST!
How about as fast as a computer with a blue screen?
How about as fast as a computer with a blue screen?
The blithering ass Bill (Bzumbzumbzum) Buckley has lit a fire under conservatives by suggesting the Iraq war is a failure. We will admit we can't see it as a total success, despite the vast efforts of bloggers, but where does the father of history's greatest satirical novelist get his information? From the nightly news? Three years of operations in Iraq suggest ebb and flow, and now it's flowing, and now people are talking about civil war, and now Bill Buckleys must remind people why anybody paid attention to him in the first place, which a lack of big words and a speech defect might have rendered without reason.
And inevitably a SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGER must explain him in 1,362 WORDS, and bring in Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to sound erudite, and the Ottoman Empire too, when the truth is it may be just an ass being an ass.
And inevitably a SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGER must explain him in 1,362 WORDS, and bring in Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to sound erudite, and the Ottoman Empire too, when the truth is it may be just an ass being an ass.
Speaking of Curley's (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) Stooges, they go back to their primary activity -- wasting our time -- by running their annual press release on all the wonderful show-biz types who've been nominated for the award Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat and Jimmah won. This is why you have blogging, CURLEY, and this is why newspapers are tanking, however many read them ONLINE.
We see also (from the Freep, where we learned of Don Knotts) that the virile rugged TV star Darren McGavin has died. We cannot help commenting that barrel of hotheads (of which I am one) beat the first online AP dispatch on Mr. Knotts by at least five minutes, and nobody's posted on Mr. McGavin yet. Say what you will about the Freep, its amateurs have broken more news than the professionals.
When someone asked what he knew about Houston, with the Houston Texans holding the first pick in the draft, Bush, 20, was quick and direct.
"No state tax," he said, prompting an outburst of laughter.
Reggie Bush for governor!
"No state tax," he said, prompting an outburst of laughter.
Reggie Bush for governor!
Yet another sitcom staple, Don Knotts, has died, and we don't get any younger.
I suspect the hacks will inundate us with that infernal word "innocence" again, given when and how he first became a star. Andy Griffith's show was cultural bubble gum, and it like other such masterworks got seared into our psyches because of infinite reruns to fill infinite schedules. There is no bigger story to this, and it insults the memory of the people who diverted the millions successfully even with bubble gum to insist their efforts had a larger purpose. We await a veritable deluge of blatherskite when Andy goes -- and it will doubly insult him.
I suspect the hacks will inundate us with that infernal word "innocence" again, given when and how he first became a star. Andy Griffith's show was cultural bubble gum, and it like other such masterworks got seared into our psyches because of infinite reruns to fill infinite schedules. There is no bigger story to this, and it insults the memory of the people who diverted the millions successfully even with bubble gum to insist their efforts had a larger purpose. We await a veritable deluge of blatherskite when Andy goes -- and it will doubly insult him.
Some late-breaking news:
CIA Officers Warn of Iraq Civil War, Contradicting Bush's Optimism
BBC NEWS Middle East US senators warn of Iraq civil war
Civil War In Iraq? - by William S. Lind
The answer is that civil war is already underway in Iraq.
Iraq Edges Towards Civil War
Allawi: this is the start of civil war - Sunday Times - Times Online
Possibility of Iraq civil war looms large
Democracy Now! Seymour Hersh: Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil War"
Iraq and "civil war" in quotes yields 22,700,000 hits on Google.
(Inspired by a Freeper)
CIA Officers Warn of Iraq Civil War, Contradicting Bush's Optimism
BBC NEWS Middle East US senators warn of Iraq civil war
Civil War In Iraq? - by William S. Lind
The answer is that civil war is already underway in Iraq.
Iraq Edges Towards Civil War
Allawi: this is the start of civil war - Sunday Times - Times Online
Possibility of Iraq civil war looms large
Democracy Now! Seymour Hersh: Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil War"
Iraq and "civil war" in quotes yields 22,700,000 hits on Google.
(Inspired by a Freeper)
The Democrats become THE NATIONAL SECURITY PARTY!
ARK ARK ARK!
Flex your muscles, Popeyes, and prepare to fight terrorism with some POLICE ACTIONS!
Another DOG that wasn't screened for the AD-BLURBISTS TOPS the B.O.!
MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER!
And someone tell Jack "Everyone Under 17 Admitted" Fithian CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED GORE may not sell as well to kids as it used to.
MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER!
And someone tell Jack "Everyone Under 17 Admitted" Fithian CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED GORE may not sell as well to kids as it used to.
Let us not put a fine face on it: the GAMES now mercifully ending were a PR disaster. They introduced not one new Coke or Wheaties annoyance; their enduring symbols are B0DE, the Happiness Boys and the Hot Dog. So far as we can tell there wasn't even any sort of world's record set in anything except for ennui. All these dull events proved why ice sports have little following otherwise; the men's hockey snooze could only have been enlivened by some goons trashing the dorms. Most importantly, they seem to have broken a lot of people of the Olympics TV-viewing habit, despite all those EXTREME sports (weren't they supposed to lasso a YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHIC?), and it's hard to see GE BANCORP and REALTY amassing much of an audience again before Vancouver, and we see no Mary Lou (fingernails-on-blackboard SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH) Retton of the ice coming to Little Jeffy's rescue, assuming he hasn't been fired by then. THE GAMES' only hope as a TV tentpole is in GE B&R selling its subsid. One would say the ORGANIZERS needn't worry as they'll always have CEOs taking three-month vacations and endlessly haranguing their subordinates afterwards, but even in the sealed caves of their brains a little light must someday shine through, created by the burning funeral pyres of their wasted money.
Former State Rep. Thomas Druce will be paroled from prison March 13 after having served the minimum two years of a sentence for running over a homeless man in his SUV, leaving the man dead on a dark street near the state Capitol, and then covering up his involvement in the accident for months.
This, with our state legisla-TORS, counts as an achievement.
This, with our state legisla-TORS, counts as an achievement.
B0DE!
If the tragic tale of B0de, combined with the tragic tale of The Fictional Memoirist, tells us anything, it's to never be friendly with BIGMEDIA's friends.
Friday, February 24, 2006
So this is why so many aliterate CEOs let their desks read The Econowiz, aside from the fact it's Bugmeister Bill's Brain Food: they (the desks, that is) get to learn that -- celebrity rags use EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!!!!
(Via the usual Romy)
(Via the usual Romy)
Stumbling across this story, which details how four RENDELLMINIUMS are going up near a closed Pillsbury flour mill in Minneapolis, reminds me how this nation seems capable of producing only superexpensive housing in cities -- certainly not jobs -- which may explain why Ground Zero and New Orleans haven't come back.
NBC Streaming Gold Medal Hockey Game
Whether the lunkheads of broadcasting like it or not, big TV events won't stay off the Web forever. GE BANCORP AND REALTY NETWORK should have done this four years ago.
Whether the lunkheads of broadcasting like it or not, big TV events won't stay off the Web forever. GE BANCORP AND REALTY NETWORK should have done this four years ago.
And a "professional blogger" hands in his resignation from making money, so maybe blogging is on the downcurve.
He made "99.9%" of his money during a three-week fundraiser.
He made "99.9%" of his money during a three-week fundraiser.
I'd never heard of The L Magazine -- it's "New York City's Event Guide", or one of 600 at any rate -- but some writer for the site linked by MediaBistro has a few interesting grafs on the great democratic revolution called blogging:
Somewhere along the line, though — and were I pressed to get more precise, I’d probably trace much of it back to the days of Rathergate (also known as CBS News’ botch of the Bush National Guard story) — the whole business turned unbearably tedious.
Take, for instance, the blogosphere’s preferred term for its traditional press counterparts — the mainstream media, or, in the too-cute-by-half formulation favored by many: the “MSM.” Innocuous enough, perhaps, but somehow, it always seems to be typed with a sneer. Beyond the sneering, though, is the fact that, once you’ve labeled something, you can attribute qualities and behaviors to it. It paves the way for a sort of aggregating that can be quite handy. When Judith Miller flubs the WMD story, it’s not just the fault of a Times reporter and her editor, it’s a failure of the “MSM.” When a newspaper columnist half-asses 800 words about the Internet, it’s not just one guy kicking something out ahead of a deadline, it’s a piece indicative of the attitude of the “MSM” as a whole. And so the debate is further codified as “us vs. them,” and everyone’s old resentments are kept warm and ready for use.
More than just terminology, though, there’s the matter of tone. If there’s currently an expression floating around more obnoxious than Instapundit’s “Heh,” I’ve yet to come across it. With a single syllable the man manages to capture the sense of smug self-satisfaction that’s come to pervade the blogosphere — the sly pleasure of a self-consciously smart junior high kid who’s caught his teacher in a mistake.
Then there’s the medium’s more sanctimonious side, the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger stylings perfected by BuzzMachine.com proprietor Jeff Jarvis. Among other things, Entertainment Weekly’s founder and the former Sunday editor at the New York Daily News, Jarvis can usually be found at the keyboard shaking his head sadly at the lost little old media sheep and discussing the new “Citizen’s Media” in tones of breathless delight. He seems to mean well, and, hell, might even be right, but lord can he beat a man down with the earnestness. He’s the sort of guy who would (and, in fact, recently did) respond to a Glenn Reynolds remark about readers feeling too entitled to comment on blog posts with the line, “Entitlement? No, I’d call it enlightenment.” His faith in the body public is touching, but it tends to grate over the long haul.
And of course there are your more vigorous participants. Your Atrios and your Kos and your Power Lines and Malkins and Little Green Footballs — your merchants of outrage, if you will. More noteworthy than the outrage, though, is the unyielding self-assurance — the sense a person gets after a few stops by that, not only are the sites’ proprietors right, but that they have always been right, always will be right in the future, and could easily enough lead us all to the promised land provided that the rest of the mouth-breathing hordes would only get in line. It’s almost thrilling in its way, witnessing confidence of a sort that would make Gore Vidal blush, but it tends to sound a bit shrill after a while, like cicadas, or a gaggle of 13 year olds in a subway car.
There are, of course, plenty of bloggers who come across as perfectly pleasant, perhaps even charming, sorts. Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Ross Douthat, Noah Millman, Matt Yglesias, even crazy old Andrew Sullivan when he’s not busy running down nefarious Fifth Columns. All the same, though, of the 27-or-so-million blogs currently out there, a shockingly high number seem designed to make a man’s eyes bleed. In just a few short years the medium has turned from a province of whimsical amateurism to a game ranch stacked with semi-pro blowhards.
It took old media over 500 years, from the advent of the printing press on down through to the present day to produce so magnificent a bore as, say, Frank Rich. In under a decade the blogosphere has managed to match them. This impresses even as it horrifies. We the people have found our voice, and Christ if we aren’t some tiresome bastards.
Perhaps when so many people come down so hard on blogging it's CW. Then again, perhaps when so many people come down so hard on blogging it's blogging.
Somewhere along the line, though — and were I pressed to get more precise, I’d probably trace much of it back to the days of Rathergate (also known as CBS News’ botch of the Bush National Guard story) — the whole business turned unbearably tedious.
Take, for instance, the blogosphere’s preferred term for its traditional press counterparts — the mainstream media, or, in the too-cute-by-half formulation favored by many: the “MSM.” Innocuous enough, perhaps, but somehow, it always seems to be typed with a sneer. Beyond the sneering, though, is the fact that, once you’ve labeled something, you can attribute qualities and behaviors to it. It paves the way for a sort of aggregating that can be quite handy. When Judith Miller flubs the WMD story, it’s not just the fault of a Times reporter and her editor, it’s a failure of the “MSM.” When a newspaper columnist half-asses 800 words about the Internet, it’s not just one guy kicking something out ahead of a deadline, it’s a piece indicative of the attitude of the “MSM” as a whole. And so the debate is further codified as “us vs. them,” and everyone’s old resentments are kept warm and ready for use.
More than just terminology, though, there’s the matter of tone. If there’s currently an expression floating around more obnoxious than Instapundit’s “Heh,” I’ve yet to come across it. With a single syllable the man manages to capture the sense of smug self-satisfaction that’s come to pervade the blogosphere — the sly pleasure of a self-consciously smart junior high kid who’s caught his teacher in a mistake.
Then there’s the medium’s more sanctimonious side, the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger stylings perfected by BuzzMachine.com proprietor Jeff Jarvis. Among other things, Entertainment Weekly’s founder and the former Sunday editor at the New York Daily News, Jarvis can usually be found at the keyboard shaking his head sadly at the lost little old media sheep and discussing the new “Citizen’s Media” in tones of breathless delight. He seems to mean well, and, hell, might even be right, but lord can he beat a man down with the earnestness. He’s the sort of guy who would (and, in fact, recently did) respond to a Glenn Reynolds remark about readers feeling too entitled to comment on blog posts with the line, “Entitlement? No, I’d call it enlightenment.” His faith in the body public is touching, but it tends to grate over the long haul.
And of course there are your more vigorous participants. Your Atrios and your Kos and your Power Lines and Malkins and Little Green Footballs — your merchants of outrage, if you will. More noteworthy than the outrage, though, is the unyielding self-assurance — the sense a person gets after a few stops by that, not only are the sites’ proprietors right, but that they have always been right, always will be right in the future, and could easily enough lead us all to the promised land provided that the rest of the mouth-breathing hordes would only get in line. It’s almost thrilling in its way, witnessing confidence of a sort that would make Gore Vidal blush, but it tends to sound a bit shrill after a while, like cicadas, or a gaggle of 13 year olds in a subway car.
There are, of course, plenty of bloggers who come across as perfectly pleasant, perhaps even charming, sorts. Josh Marshall, Kevin Drum, Ross Douthat, Noah Millman, Matt Yglesias, even crazy old Andrew Sullivan when he’s not busy running down nefarious Fifth Columns. All the same, though, of the 27-or-so-million blogs currently out there, a shockingly high number seem designed to make a man’s eyes bleed. In just a few short years the medium has turned from a province of whimsical amateurism to a game ranch stacked with semi-pro blowhards.
It took old media over 500 years, from the advent of the printing press on down through to the present day to produce so magnificent a bore as, say, Frank Rich. In under a decade the blogosphere has managed to match them. This impresses even as it horrifies. We the people have found our voice, and Christ if we aren’t some tiresome bastards.
Perhaps when so many people come down so hard on blogging it's CW. Then again, perhaps when so many people come down so hard on blogging it's blogging.
We supsected when the former LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNCORP left His Holy Empire He would engage on a Crusade to tell THE TRUTH, and by God is He telling it.
But answer us this, Your Lordship: if Iraq is "about oil", couldn't we say Your "memorial" to the soldiers there was about opposing the war -- and THE SWEEPS?
But answer us this, Your Lordship: if Iraq is "about oil", couldn't we say Your "memorial" to the soldiers there was about opposing the war -- and THE SWEEPS?
Thursday, February 23, 2006
ADVERTISEMENT of the DAY:
H&R Block Inc., the company that helps millions of Americans complete tax returns, said late Thursday that it got its own taxes wrong in recent years.
The Kansas City, Mo.-based company said it will restate results for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, plus previous 2006 quarters, mainly because of errors in calculating its state effective income tax rate. The mistakes understated H&R Block's state income tax liability by about $32 million as of the end of April, 2005, the company added.
The restatements will knock 7 cents a share off 2005 fiscal-year earnings and 2 cents a share of fiscal 2004 results, the company said.
Figures; they even spell their name wrong too.
H&R Block Inc., the company that helps millions of Americans complete tax returns, said late Thursday that it got its own taxes wrong in recent years.
The Kansas City, Mo.-based company said it will restate results for fiscal years 2004 and 2005, plus previous 2006 quarters, mainly because of errors in calculating its state effective income tax rate. The mistakes understated H&R Block's state income tax liability by about $32 million as of the end of April, 2005, the company added.
The restatements will knock 7 cents a share off 2005 fiscal-year earnings and 2 cents a share of fiscal 2004 results, the company said.
Figures; they even spell their name wrong too.
Occasionally even JONAH may be on to something:
HOW CIVILIZATIONS CRUMBLE [Jonah Goldberg]
This reader is on to something:
The downfall of civilization can be traced directly to the practice of putting televisions in taverns. Men stopped talking to one another. Then they went home and started talking to their wives to whom they hadn’t talked in centuries. This led immediately to wholesale divorce, which in turn led to women in the workplace and juvenile delinquency. Other ills too numerous and horrible to mention followed until men stopped wearing ties so they wouldn’t hang themselves.
Posted at 04:25 PM
HOW CIVILIZATIONS CRUMBLE [Jonah Goldberg]
This reader is on to something:
The downfall of civilization can be traced directly to the practice of putting televisions in taverns. Men stopped talking to one another. Then they went home and started talking to their wives to whom they hadn’t talked in centuries. This led immediately to wholesale divorce, which in turn led to women in the workplace and juvenile delinquency. Other ills too numerous and horrible to mention followed until men stopped wearing ties so they wouldn’t hang themselves.
Posted at 04:25 PM
Neanderthals in Europe were killed off by the advance of modern humans thousands of years earlier than previously believed, losing a competition for food and shelter, according to a scientific study published Wednesday.
We are very tempted to say something, but it would be politically incorrect.
We are very tempted to say something, but it would be politically incorrect.
New Orleans' Uninsured Get Primitive Care
The best thing they can do is get out of the way, so we can build a largely uninhabited theme park for the rich.
The best thing they can do is get out of the way, so we can build a largely uninhabited theme park for the rich.
Math -- the RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! way:
"They're promoting the number that is most advantageous for them to promote, but the simple fact is that only a fraction of the registered users ever go back," said Elliot. "And only a fraction of them use the site on any kind of regular basis, and then another fraction of them are responsible for the traffic."
And a fraction of a fraction of a fraction is worth -- $580 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Part of what killed Friendster according to Elliot, was its own success. Once everyone knew about it, no one wanted to hang out there.
Yogi Berra was right.
(Via IWantMedia.com)
"They're promoting the number that is most advantageous for them to promote, but the simple fact is that only a fraction of the registered users ever go back," said Elliot. "And only a fraction of them use the site on any kind of regular basis, and then another fraction of them are responsible for the traffic."
And a fraction of a fraction of a fraction is worth -- $580 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Part of what killed Friendster according to Elliot, was its own success. Once everyone knew about it, no one wanted to hang out there.
Yogi Berra was right.
(Via IWantMedia.com)
The pixels hadn't faded on Gallup's downbeat report when Slate.com columnist Daniel Grossman chimed in with another requiem, "Twilight of the Blogs." Grossman says....
Sure we don't need blogs, Sun-Times?
(Via the inevitable Romy -- and Eric Zorn didn't notice either. So much for newspaper blogs.)
Sure we don't need blogs, Sun-Times?
(Via the inevitable Romy -- and Eric Zorn didn't notice either. So much for newspaper blogs.)
Tom Freston (remember that name) CELEBRATES:
Ratings are flat to down at most of the cable networks, but that performance "does not make any real impact at all in terms of the kind of [ad] revenue that we can bring in," Freston said.
Because THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS can do ANYTHING with OUR MONEY!
Ratings are flat to down at most of the cable networks, but that performance "does not make any real impact at all in terms of the kind of [ad] revenue that we can bring in," Freston said.
Because THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS can do ANYTHING with OUR MONEY!
An eighty-something GETS DOWN!!!!!
I really think this recalls the golden days of AOL, KING RICHARD.
(Via IWantMedia.com)
I really think this recalls the golden days of AOL, KING RICHARD.
(Via IWantMedia.com)
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooh, the hick forces of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL in South Dakota....
For all their satire of RED COUNTRY the Coasts teach us daily that geography does not equal smarts.
For all their satire of RED COUNTRY the Coasts teach us daily that geography does not equal smarts.
More hopeful news in the media BIZ:
Viacom Profit Falls 67 Percent in First Report Since Splitting From CBS
Viacom Profit Falls 67 Percent in First Report Since Splitting From CBS
Here's one reason THE GAMES aren't drawing an audience: we have no rooting interest. Back when (and I must mention her again) the ethereally beautiful Peggy Fleming became an American sweetheart THE GAMES were still in the realm of hopeful star-gazing amateurs who really did represent their countries; and from Berlin on THE GAMES were nothing if not xenophobically political, whatever their faked universalist view. Now players can play for anybody -- look at the alleged hockey tournaments -- and love of country can hardly rank when the moving force behind so many of these would-be stars is love of ENDORSEMENTS. It is nonsense to say THE GAMES have thus been morally polluted; any outfit that can bring on the likes of AVERY BRANDAGE [sic] is rotten to the core, and such craven genius intensified the ultimate UEBERROTHING of THE GAMES, so now we have the best of two bad worlds: an intensely fake show of political naivete with a hidden evil smirk, and even more intense MARKETING.
It's healthy that we shouldn't root for these GAMES' latest Wheaties-box models. They only represent themselves. Far better to honor the true patriot soldiers in harm's way in Iraq, who work without the meaningless beckoning glow of a gold medal, but do more than their weight in gold.
It's healthy that we shouldn't root for these GAMES' latest Wheaties-box models. They only represent themselves. Far better to honor the true patriot soldiers in harm's way in Iraq, who work without the meaningless beckoning glow of a gold medal, but do more than their weight in gold.
SF Chron: US needs to do everything possible to help Carroll
Including a donation of some of our industry's big fat profit margin?
Oh, I'm sorry -- U.S., not US.
Including a donation of some of our industry's big fat profit margin?
Oh, I'm sorry -- U.S., not US.
Oh, please. There have been threats of strikes in show-biz before, and even when these self-righteous heroes do strike it doesn't put the slightest dent in their money machine. So please strike, and strike as long as you can, though we realize we'll get nothing out of it.
Given how con-SER-va-tives are root-root-rooting for the Dubai team it makes us wonder whether we've jumped to conclusions. Perhaps DP World is a responsible, well-managed company. Perhaps it has earned the right to run our ports. But there is the one-percent rule. Its newly acquired division employs 22,000. And sorry, we can't forget whose side its home territory took before the war in Afghanistan.
Just what we need -- another TV network...from RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers is going NUTS.
The American Society of Willfully Ignorant Advertisers is going NUTS.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Meantime THE CORNER is coming out in full-DEEFENSE mode for Dubya and his port decision, presumably because that kind of hard-core con-SER-va-tive never knew a hundred-thousand-dollar bill it didn't like.
And in the realm of good advice:
Florida's governor says he thinks criticism by some Congress members is unwarranted because his brother....
Thanks a lot, Jeb.
(Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
And in the realm of good advice:
Florida's governor says he thinks criticism by some Congress members is unwarranted because his brother....
Thanks a lot, Jeb.
(Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
[T]his blend of intuitive conservatism and open-minded cosmopolitanism....
TRANSLATION: What Dow 36,000 really really really wants to be is what he already is: an exceptionally smug laissez-faire-free-enterprise gliberTARian who's pro-choice and pro moral turpitude generally.
TRANSLATION: What Dow 36,000 really really really wants to be is what he already is: an exceptionally smug laissez-faire-free-enterprise gliberTARian who's pro-choice and pro moral turpitude generally.
Scott Pelley auditions for David Gregory's temper:
"There is virtually no disagreement in the scientific community any longer about global warming. ...It would be difficult to find a scientist worth his salt in this subject who would suggest this wasn't happening. It would probably be someone whose grant has been funded by someone who finds reducing fossil fuel emissions detrimental to their own interests." [As excerpted by the invincible Romy]
We don't trust BigOil either, not at its prices. But this is the same outfit that created the ALAR scare, so let us say we don't trust VIACON/CBS Network News either.
"There is virtually no disagreement in the scientific community any longer about global warming. ...It would be difficult to find a scientist worth his salt in this subject who would suggest this wasn't happening. It would probably be someone whose grant has been funded by someone who finds reducing fossil fuel emissions detrimental to their own interests." [As excerpted by the invincible Romy]
We don't trust BigOil either, not at its prices. But this is the same outfit that created the ALAR scare, so let us say we don't trust VIACON/CBS Network News either.
That business with the ports has finally gathered critical mass, which means it's time for monkey business to accompany the business:
Democrats see a national security opening
Sure. And with your help you can open it wider.
Democrats see a national security opening
Sure. And with your help you can open it wider.
Beware the news hack who wants to make his job a "mission." Before this guy was the late unlamented John Carroll and his OMERTA -- I mean code. We saw a mission last week when the hacks tried to ferret out all sorts of truths from THE CHENEY MASSACRE that weren't there. When news hacks go on a mission, it's like to be a CRUSADE.
(Via the inevitable ROMY)
(Via the inevitable ROMY)
The fellow who runs the stub end of Hahvahd Mutual Fund is quitting. We might feel slightly sad but then Hahvahd ceased being about education a long time ago.
Monday, February 20, 2006
And in looking up the phrase "30 Rock" I came across this mighty demonstration of the power of blogs in general and KOS'S in particular: It seemed Timmy Russert or Tiny Chris Matthews said something stupid (as if that's unusual), so....
I am also proposing a mass picket of NBC at 30 Rock for February 20, 2006. That is President's Day, and most of you will have a day off. We can meet at a certain time and a certain place and then proceed to 30 Rock with our signs and our voices. I propose that everyone have a spot of orange somewhere on their bodies so we can identify one another.
We have to show them we mean business and that we are not to be taken lightly. Maybe we can also invite some notable people (aka celebs, politicians and the like) to join us as we walk around 30 Rock. I am serious about this. I'll organize this effort. Are you in?
Yeeeaaarrrggghhhhhh!!
Dr. Dean's acolyte further says "NBC is owned by GE, which is a mammoth defense contractor", which proves how much the Kossacks know. (In FY2005 Humana Inc. did more defense business than GEB&R.)
I am also proposing a mass picket of NBC at 30 Rock for February 20, 2006. That is President's Day, and most of you will have a day off. We can meet at a certain time and a certain place and then proceed to 30 Rock with our signs and our voices. I propose that everyone have a spot of orange somewhere on their bodies so we can identify one another.
We have to show them we mean business and that we are not to be taken lightly. Maybe we can also invite some notable people (aka celebs, politicians and the like) to join us as we walk around 30 Rock. I am serious about this. I'll organize this effort. Are you in?
Yeeeaaarrrggghhhhhh!!
Dr. Dean's acolyte further says "NBC is owned by GE, which is a mammoth defense contractor", which proves how much the Kossacks know. (In FY2005 Humana Inc. did more defense business than GEB&R.)
They're getting desperate at 30 Rock:
TURIN, Italy - We’ve been so busy during the first week of the Olympics chronicling the failures of the U.S. Olympic Team and obsessing over the medal count that we haven’t even noticed the biggest American story of these or any other Winter Games.
Try this on for size: The United States could win.
I’m not talking about winning a speedskating race or a medal in figure skating. I’m talking about the whole darned shooting match.
1. The only GE BANCORP and REALTY employee who is officially cleared to discuss shooting matches is DAVID "JERK" GREGORY. 2. Isn't this obsession with winning medals one possible reason people have been unwatching THE GAMES in droves?
TURIN, Italy - We’ve been so busy during the first week of the Olympics chronicling the failures of the U.S. Olympic Team and obsessing over the medal count that we haven’t even noticed the biggest American story of these or any other Winter Games.
Try this on for size: The United States could win.
I’m not talking about winning a speedskating race or a medal in figure skating. I’m talking about the whole darned shooting match.
1. The only GE BANCORP and REALTY employee who is officially cleared to discuss shooting matches is DAVID "JERK" GREGORY. 2. Isn't this obsession with winning medals one possible reason people have been unwatching THE GAMES in droves?
PETER BISKIND STRIKES AGAIN: "[A] professor of history and public policy at The George Washington University" sez that because "some of the best movies ever made were created in the 1970s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" that decade was a Statue of Liberty among the ages.
Yeah. A great decade that gave us Watergate, the Cambodian genocide, Gerry, Jimmah, stagflation, holy cockroaches and disco -- and SOME OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRANSLATION: He's a Peter Biskind for policy wonks.
Out three months and 26,105 on Amazon.com -- and doing worse than Peter's masterwork after seven years! From now on, we'll stick with suck-ups we know.
Yeah. A great decade that gave us Watergate, the Cambodian genocide, Gerry, Jimmah, stagflation, holy cockroaches and disco -- and SOME OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRANSLATION: He's a Peter Biskind for policy wonks.
Out three months and 26,105 on Amazon.com -- and doing worse than Peter's masterwork after seven years! From now on, we'll stick with suck-ups we know.
"There is a human element here that got lost in the perfect storm of people who don't like Cheney," he explained. "They don't like hunting. They don't like guns. They don't like people who kill birds and eat them. I mean, good grief."
What did I say last week?
(Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
What did I say last week?
(Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
If the stories of Bode (or should we call him B0de) and "Hot-Dog" Jacobellis didn't signal the true meaning of THE GAMES, here comes a raid on the Austrians.
We are sorry to learn that Curt Gowdy has died. He was avuncular in the very best sense. We remember how Reggie Jackson hit the light stanchion during the '71 All-Star Game in Detroit because of him. Now all we have are loudmouths.
In light of the Cretins of Mountain View's latest technological marvel, and in pondering three recent articles on blogging's worth (or lack thereof), I have taken a few days off from typing snappy rejoinders to news stories. I am tired of writing for nobody, and certainly not for money; and what is worse, I'm wasting my time at it (even though I'm filling in time I'd otherwise spend twiddling my thumbs), and all of this keyboard pulverizing is like radio waves blasted into space, never to be picked up again. I suppose I shall resume tomorrow, but the futility and ephemerality of blogging hang over me more than ever, and as I've said before, if I could make money writing, and writing for hard copy, I'd stop this glorified diary-making in the proverbial New York minute.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
I don't know what to do. I guess after this latest destestable screw-up I may be stuck with Blogger anyway. I tried posting to a WordPress blog but having to type in a heading every time is very annoying and limiting, and I don't like the look of my blog, or the fact everything seems so spread out on the page. You win, Larry and Sergey. Subject me to more glitches and inconveniences.