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, March 31, 2007
Observation of the week from the great ASIFA-Hollywood animation blog:
The other day, a student at Woodbury volunteered to help build out our database. His name is Jo-Jo. He told me how much this blog, along with Eddie Fitzgerald's and John K's, has opened his eyes to how great cartoons were in the 30s, 40s and 50s. He had a sketchbook full of Preston Blair drawings and enthusiasm for Fleischer, MGM and Warner Bros cartoons.
So I asked him what kinds of music he listens to...
"David Bowie mostly."
My jaw hit the floor. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I gave Jo-Jo the best tip he'll ever get...
Cartoons aren't the only things that were better back in the first half of the 20th century.
[sic]
The other day, a student at Woodbury volunteered to help build out our database. His name is Jo-Jo. He told me how much this blog, along with Eddie Fitzgerald's and John K's, has opened his eyes to how great cartoons were in the 30s, 40s and 50s. He had a sketchbook full of Preston Blair drawings and enthusiasm for Fleischer, MGM and Warner Bros cartoons.
So I asked him what kinds of music he listens to...
"David Bowie mostly."
My jaw hit the floor. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I gave Jo-Jo the best tip he'll ever get...
Cartoons aren't the only things that were better back in the first half of the 20th century.
[sic]
How I Live with Cancer
Let's see the international editions:
Aw, C'MON, JonBoy! Why haven't you posted them yet?
P. S. on 4/1 at 3:40 P.M.: Because they're taking the weekend off for Easter. And we thought St. WARREN was their god!
Let's see the international editions:
Aw, C'MON, JonBoy! Why haven't you posted them yet?
P. S. on 4/1 at 3:40 P.M.: Because they're taking the weekend off for Easter. And we thought St. WARREN was their god!
Only in NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
● LOU DOBBS IS SAVING A TROUBLED NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Nation-saving overemphasis added]
So click on the link, and....
Sorry, the page you requested could not be found.
● LOU DOBBS IS SAVING A TROUBLED NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Nation-saving overemphasis added]
So click on the link, and....
Sorry, the page you requested could not be found.
Speaking of JonBoy, 9 out of 10 people still believe in God!
I'm glad we have divine POLLSTERS to tell us!
I'm glad we have divine POLLSTERS to tell us!
I finally figured out how The Most Overrated "Comedy" "Stars" of All Time, Bob and Ray, lasted so long. They started on radio in 1946 as a Boston local act, and only came to the national air in 1951, as the medium began its slow inexorable decline toward three-song playlists and CHEAP CHANNEL; surely a two-man "comedy" act with stock music or an organ (not even that sometimes) was far cheaper to procure than the expensive series still dominating the waves. By the late fifties they had it made; with the biz now All-Freed-All-The-Time there were nonetheless plenty of outlets for their ultracoy witlessness, notably NBC's Monitor, a parade of tiresome greasy radio personalities famous for its irritating theme music, and WOR, which was even greasier. With increased exposure came Sondheimization, the notion that when a very few people in very elite parts like you it means you're good, and they became "cult" performers, which doesn't seem to have improved their "act." We can be sure its cult had no sense because each Bob and Ray sketch sounded just like 5,000 others, assuring a comfort zone for the cult's ego. (That they starred in a pretentious Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. space-"comedy" on public TV didn't hurt.) In the meantime they secured their fortunes with an ad-voiceover empire. The act ultimately became a ward of public radio, guaranteeing its tiresomeness would be total. We aren't surprised to see the NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE's archenemy reveres their memory, which tells us that in time his rep will fade too. (Interesting that his Bob-and-Ray-worshipping shtick gets its name from a Bob and Ray shtick inspired by a pan of John Simon's -- the one man among thousands of fanny kissers with sense.)
P. S.
Like most old-line broadcasters, they are indefatigable throat-clearers, and when they are in the same room the ceaseless coughs, harrumphs and roars are almost deafening.
No further comment.
(Monitor theme link updated 2/18/2009; NPNTR link updated 5/1/2009)
P. S.
Like most old-line broadcasters, they are indefatigable throat-clearers, and when they are in the same room the ceaseless coughs, harrumphs and roars are almost deafening.
No further comment.
(Monitor theme link updated 2/18/2009; NPNTR link updated 5/1/2009)
I have taken several days off from blogging -- an abscessed tooth will force such things -- and made me further confront the essential vapidity of what I do. Blogging is words and prejudices bound in a digital corset. It annoys me to think how many of my posts fall into so many puny categories:
1. Stupid liberal demagogue says something stupid, hypocritical or dishonest about a conservative;
2. Stupid conservative demagogue says something stupid, hypocritical or dishonest about a liberal;
3. Stupid conservative and liberal sling simultaneous invective, the verbal slime besmirching parties other than those intended;
4. Stupid liberal reveres fellow stupid liberal for saying something stupid.
5. Stupid conservative reveres fellow stupid conservative for saying something stupid.
6. Stupid liberal and stupid conservative mutually revere someone for saying something stupid. (Rare, although think of the comedy team of Slick and Papa or History's Greatest Comic Novelist and you'll get the idea.)
7. Stupid news hack demonstrates he cannot write a sentence without emasculating the language or inserting his egregious prejudices;
8. Government does something idiotic;
9. Business does something idiotic;
10. Another show biz blowhard earns thousands of times his weight in unjustified publicity.
And one could go on and on and on, but one is already benumbed by all this blogging.
Perhaps the problem is words by the oceanful. I have already railed about how the ASSPress disgorges twenty million of them a day; add our almost infinite overcapacity now with newspapers and television and the Web and surely America will be the first nation to perish from verbiage. Even Thomas Paine could not amplify his voice above the deafening scream, a scream which for all its inconsequence is a deafening silence.
The several scathing reviews that have greeted the adaptation of Ms. Didion's latest masterpiece in Branson East point to another problem. Technology has vitiated language's power, and not just through its awful excess. It has ameliorated heartbreak. Once separation could be permanent; today you could live in Australia, and your very closest friend could live in France, and you could scoot back and forth across the globe to remeet within two days. The passionate love letter sent tearfully from the nearest intolerably mute mailbox has become :-*. Even the horrible killings of ghetto infants are becoming routine, routinized in no small part by technology. And Ms. Didion is putatively talking of grief, of the death of her husband and daughter. Abe Lincoln caught the essence in his wrenching letter to Mrs. Bixby (and she lost two sons in the War, not five). Constant technology has slowly calmed the tragic muse. "Memory stops. The frame freezes. You'll find that's something that happens'' will not do. Perhaps only a genius can communicate the depths of heartbreak now, and it seems safe to say there are no Shakespeares on the horizon.
Further let us admit life is not as interesting anymore. Lacking any solider evidence we must assume Shakespeare got his playwriting guts from boozing and fighting and whoring, much like Ben Jonson, much like Hemingway, much like many "classic" writers, who went sailing and boxing and cowpoking besides; that we don't know if Shakespeare was interesting doesn't mean he wasn't, and his plays most certainly are (if not always for the right reasons). Alexander and Attila the Hun did not merely conquer nations. Having just read over Truman a third or fourth time I know how he jumped from one wet rag to another, a seeming failure in middle-age, before stepping into a county judgeship and history. Failure made the man. Today a child goes to a bland elementary school (where, despite the ever-changing always trendy pedagogy, the accent is forever on conformity), to a bland high-school, to a bland college, to a bland Dilberty life; the most he can say is that he'll have had sex with more people than others, usually under a drug-heavy haze. This is experience? This foments maturity and wisdom? No wonder each successive generation looks like a lesser order of infants. Words can have little power when an increasingly contented life robs them of their meaning.
And of course science will be in the vanguard of making words obsolete. It is hard to believe it won't be. As Mustapha Monds seek to enable wi-fi-like interaction among human brains, where all communication becomes non-verbal, sensual, visceral, words will become obsolete. That this must rank with nuclear fission as a cause for the world's end matters not; we must go forward into an ever-speedier, ever-larger, ever-more-enveloping void, not only within our communities, but within ourselves.
So I have gassed why I an abscessed tooth has kept me from blogging the last few days. I can only resume with my usual futile and foolish attempts at aphorisms and wit, realizing no one reads them willingly in the first place, but content with the fact with, if I must make a fool of myself -- and that is the blogger's first obligation -- no one will be watching.
(Corrected 9/4/2010 -- "or "replaces "of" in fourth sentence of sixth graf)
1. Stupid liberal demagogue says something stupid, hypocritical or dishonest about a conservative;
2. Stupid conservative demagogue says something stupid, hypocritical or dishonest about a liberal;
3. Stupid conservative and liberal sling simultaneous invective, the verbal slime besmirching parties other than those intended;
4. Stupid liberal reveres fellow stupid liberal for saying something stupid.
5. Stupid conservative reveres fellow stupid conservative for saying something stupid.
6. Stupid liberal and stupid conservative mutually revere someone for saying something stupid. (Rare, although think of the comedy team of Slick and Papa or History's Greatest Comic Novelist and you'll get the idea.)
7. Stupid news hack demonstrates he cannot write a sentence without emasculating the language or inserting his egregious prejudices;
8. Government does something idiotic;
9. Business does something idiotic;
10. Another show biz blowhard earns thousands of times his weight in unjustified publicity.
And one could go on and on and on, but one is already benumbed by all this blogging.
Perhaps the problem is words by the oceanful. I have already railed about how the ASSPress disgorges twenty million of them a day; add our almost infinite overcapacity now with newspapers and television and the Web and surely America will be the first nation to perish from verbiage. Even Thomas Paine could not amplify his voice above the deafening scream, a scream which for all its inconsequence is a deafening silence.
The several scathing reviews that have greeted the adaptation of Ms. Didion's latest masterpiece in Branson East point to another problem. Technology has vitiated language's power, and not just through its awful excess. It has ameliorated heartbreak. Once separation could be permanent; today you could live in Australia, and your very closest friend could live in France, and you could scoot back and forth across the globe to remeet within two days. The passionate love letter sent tearfully from the nearest intolerably mute mailbox has become :-*. Even the horrible killings of ghetto infants are becoming routine, routinized in no small part by technology. And Ms. Didion is putatively talking of grief, of the death of her husband and daughter. Abe Lincoln caught the essence in his wrenching letter to Mrs. Bixby (and she lost two sons in the War, not five). Constant technology has slowly calmed the tragic muse. "Memory stops. The frame freezes. You'll find that's something that happens'' will not do. Perhaps only a genius can communicate the depths of heartbreak now, and it seems safe to say there are no Shakespeares on the horizon.
Further let us admit life is not as interesting anymore. Lacking any solider evidence we must assume Shakespeare got his playwriting guts from boozing and fighting and whoring, much like Ben Jonson, much like Hemingway, much like many "classic" writers, who went sailing and boxing and cowpoking besides; that we don't know if Shakespeare was interesting doesn't mean he wasn't, and his plays most certainly are (if not always for the right reasons). Alexander and Attila the Hun did not merely conquer nations. Having just read over Truman a third or fourth time I know how he jumped from one wet rag to another, a seeming failure in middle-age, before stepping into a county judgeship and history. Failure made the man. Today a child goes to a bland elementary school (where, despite the ever-changing always trendy pedagogy, the accent is forever on conformity), to a bland high-school, to a bland college, to a bland Dilberty life; the most he can say is that he'll have had sex with more people than others, usually under a drug-heavy haze. This is experience? This foments maturity and wisdom? No wonder each successive generation looks like a lesser order of infants. Words can have little power when an increasingly contented life robs them of their meaning.
And of course science will be in the vanguard of making words obsolete. It is hard to believe it won't be. As Mustapha Monds seek to enable wi-fi-like interaction among human brains, where all communication becomes non-verbal, sensual, visceral, words will become obsolete. That this must rank with nuclear fission as a cause for the world's end matters not; we must go forward into an ever-speedier, ever-larger, ever-more-enveloping void, not only within our communities, but within ourselves.
So I have gassed why I an abscessed tooth has kept me from blogging the last few days. I can only resume with my usual futile and foolish attempts at aphorisms and wit, realizing no one reads them willingly in the first place, but content with the fact with, if I must make a fool of myself -- and that is the blogger's first obligation -- no one will be watching.
(Corrected 9/4/2010 -- "or "replaces "of" in fourth sentence of sixth graf)
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Another rag the world desperately needs: Golf for Women.
Gotta say it again: Magazines are on the verge of becoming a mass medium without an audience.
Gotta say it again: Magazines are on the verge of becoming a mass medium without an audience.
Dr. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!! disqualifies Sen. Law-and-Order because he's not a Christian.
I think we should check again. The guy's from Hollywood so he had to approve of the WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!ING.
I think we should check again. The guy's from Hollywood so he had to approve of the WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!ING.
Apt: Bugmeister may buy into a world leader in pop-up ads. Now if He can apply the same successful formula that has worked with His other software we may never be plagued by pop-upsd again!
Even Chinese movie makers play for the ad-blurbists:
China Daily further commented: "Chinese directors have long been chided by domestic fans because they are always capturing and revealing the dark sides of the country in their movies, solely for the alleged purpose of winning international acknowledgements."
China Daily further commented: "Chinese directors have long been chided by domestic fans because they are always capturing and revealing the dark sides of the country in their movies, solely for the alleged purpose of winning international acknowledgements."
The viciousness of the left:
It is worth recalling that the explosion of vulgarity, cruelty, and viciousness that the Web is mostly a phenomenon of the left. Hugh Hewitt linked to this informal study that shows left wing sites are 18 times as filthy as right wing ones.
Thankfully we atone for that with all the posts (like the preceding one) claiming 300 is a con-SER-va-tive movie.
SIX OF ONE....
It is worth recalling that the explosion of vulgarity, cruelty, and viciousness that the Web is mostly a phenomenon of the left. Hugh Hewitt linked to this informal study that shows left wing sites are 18 times as filthy as right wing ones.
Thankfully we atone for that with all the posts (like the preceding one) claiming 300 is a con-SER-va-tive movie.
SIX OF ONE....
The Kaiser Family Foundation sez:
Kids 8-12-years old see an average 21 food ads a day--more than 7,600 a year--most of which are for candy and snacks (34%), cereal (28%), and fast food (10%). Teenagers are next at at 17 a day or about 6,000 a year.
Remember, youth are our future customers -- if they live that long.
Kids 8-12-years old see an average 21 food ads a day--more than 7,600 a year--most of which are for candy and snacks (34%), cereal (28%), and fast food (10%). Teenagers are next at at 17 a day or about 6,000 a year.
Remember, youth are our future customers -- if they live that long.
AP NEWS ALERT!
President Bush has withdrawn the ambassadorial nomination of a businessman who donated money to a group that undermined Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.
Since when has Dubya been conducting most of his business from under the Oval Office desk? Cramped for you, Dubya?
President Bush has withdrawn the ambassadorial nomination of a businessman who donated money to a group that undermined Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.
Since when has Dubya been conducting most of his business from under the Oval Office desk? Cramped for you, Dubya?
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The best possible reason for Firefox:
Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
I do not know how many times IE7 has peremptorily shut itself off. I switched from IE6 figuring it could only be better. Bugmeister? Better? How many times have bloggers lost their contents because the Bug wanted time off? And unlike Firefox He doesn't save your selections. This is precisely why so many seem to think the Meister is Spandexily stretching the truth when He boasts of all the copies of XP ME -- Vista He's "sold." I'd wager there are at least as many complaints of how slow and cumbersome it is. In these sixteen words are precisely the reason computing needs competition, something it has gotten in fits and starts, when it's gotten it at all.
And notice this link (and the one preceding) doesn't even list IE7! What do these jerks know?
Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
I do not know how many times IE7 has peremptorily shut itself off. I switched from IE6 figuring it could only be better. Bugmeister? Better? How many times have bloggers lost their contents because the Bug wanted time off? And unlike Firefox He doesn't save your selections. This is precisely why so many seem to think the Meister is Spandexily stretching the truth when He boasts of all the copies of XP ME -- Vista He's "sold." I'd wager there are at least as many complaints of how slow and cumbersome it is. In these sixteen words are precisely the reason computing needs competition, something it has gotten in fits and starts, when it's gotten it at all.
And notice this link (and the one preceding) doesn't even list IE7! What do these jerks know?
Daniel Gross is the sort of hack whose writing knows more than he does. That said he's probably pratfalled into a truth when he says CDs will survive. There is no reason for the people who go for disposable bansheeing and the bigoted truths of [C]RAP to buy them; they have their iPods. But those of us who collect, and moreover, those of us who want a superior sound experience, are sticking with it. What is more, many, many albums are available for much less than $10 -- and not just cutouts or rackjobber's stuff. Look through Amazon.com, or Berkshire Record Outlet if you're a classical fan. The latest adenoidal attitudinal screech deserves downloads. Horowitz and Toscanini and Heifetz and Bernstein, and Satch and the Duke and the Count, and Johnny Cash and Hank Williams and Buddy Holly and Ray Charles and the Supremes, deserve only the immortality that the CD alone can promise.
(Via ArtsJournal)
(Via ArtsJournal)
Shucks, Rummy can't be tried for torture.
The greatest injustice of the milleni -- of the centu -- no, the century's not long enough -- of recent histo -- of, of...WHY CAN'T SOMEBODY PUNISH HIM FOR BEING DUBYA'S DEFENSE SECRETARY?
The greatest injustice of the milleni -- of the centu -- no, the century's not long enough -- of recent histo -- of, of...WHY CAN'T SOMEBODY PUNISH HIM FOR BEING DUBYA'S DEFENSE SECRETARY?
Scintillating NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hed of the Week:
Harris Poll: 50% of Adults Won't Vote for Hillary
Which means (although there may have been some undecideds and no opinions) that possibly 50 percent of adults would vote for Hillary. And 50 percent plus one is all a candidate needs.
Harris Poll: 50% of Adults Won't Vote for Hillary
Which means (although there may have been some undecideds and no opinions) that possibly 50 percent of adults would vote for Hillary. And 50 percent plus one is all a candidate needs.
How apt that TRIBCO should plug a new rag called Obit on the day another high-profile rag gets offed.
Magazines are on the verge of becoming a mass medium without an audience.
(TRIBCO link via the usual Romy)
Magazines are on the verge of becoming a mass medium without an audience.
(TRIBCO link via the usual Romy)
Belly Kisser praises the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich:
"In all your life and creative work you have many times shown the truth that art and morality together supplement each other and constitute a single goal. In all of the world you are known not only as a brilliant cellist and gifted conductor but as a confirmed defender of human rights and freedom of spirit and an uncompromising fighter for the ideals of democracy," Putin said in a statement.
TRANSLATION: Look behind you, maestro.
"In all your life and creative work you have many times shown the truth that art and morality together supplement each other and constitute a single goal. In all of the world you are known not only as a brilliant cellist and gifted conductor but as a confirmed defender of human rights and freedom of spirit and an uncompromising fighter for the ideals of democracy," Putin said in a statement.
TRANSLATION: Look behind you, maestro.
The onanism of news hacks becomes ever more fiercely onanistic: not only is LALA having its ombudsman investigate its recent op-ed E-THI-CAL LAPSE, but another hack is banging his head on his keyboard because people outside the biz don't seem to care about Sleepy Gonzales and his attorney thing. Who'd have guessed?
(Via Romy, who else?)
(Via Romy, who else?)
Oh well, The Onion beat SUMNER for establishing a 24-hour "comedy"-news channel, although SUM's still in competition because this sounds like a grabbag of video clips.
No, a 24-hour "comedy"-news channel is an inevitability, though it's hard to guess how it can beat the rest of the news biz for laughs.
No, a 24-hour "comedy"-news channel is an inevitability, though it's hard to guess how it can beat the rest of the news biz for laughs.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Ooooh, Ms. Travers consults again with WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!, or somebody:
According to a newsroom source: An aide to Senator Webb was arrested earlier today for entering a Senate building with a handgu, [SIC!!!!!] according to Capitol Police.
So what? Doesn't that help him with the NRA?
And after rapidly correcting her typo Ms. Travers issues another late-breaking bulletin:
All kinds of rumors — o.k., one in particular — keep coming in to me about who that gun is registered. [SIC!!!!!] I have one question: Where is The Politico?!
You're doing very nicely, thank you.
According to a newsroom source: An aide to Senator Webb was arrested earlier today for entering a Senate building with a handgu, [SIC!!!!!] according to Capitol Police.
So what? Doesn't that help him with the NRA?
And after rapidly correcting her typo Ms. Travers issues another late-breaking bulletin:
All kinds of rumors — o.k., one in particular — keep coming in to me about who that gun is registered. [SIC!!!!!] I have one question: Where is The Politico?!
You're doing very nicely, thank you.
The Smithsonian's boss spent $31,000 on upholstery for his office, and $2,535 cleaning a chandelier at home, and now he gets to resign as a result.
This seems like a fair trade.
This seems like a fair trade.
Good news for the multitudes who think Joe Theismann talks too much: ESPN's shutting him up in favor of Ron Jaworski.
We like him, but then we think all the announcers talk too much.
We like him, but then we think all the announcers talk too much.
Somebody's auditioning for your JOB, Little Jeffy!
Remember the name: Pamela Daley!
P. S. For GE BANCORP to get back up to LEGENDARY WELCHIAN levels it would need a $1 TRILLION market cap -- NOT BLOODY LIKELY.
So what is GE BANCORP doing other than spinning its wheels?
Remember the name: Pamela Daley!
P. S. For GE BANCORP to get back up to LEGENDARY WELCHIAN levels it would need a $1 TRILLION market cap -- NOT BLOODY LIKELY.
So what is GE BANCORP doing other than spinning its wheels?
The unnecessary newspaper insert Life kicks the bucket. Now to revive it as a Web site, which should have been the idea anyway.
In 2006, Heinz spent only $16 million, according to TNS Media Intelligence, barely a blip compared to Kraft Foods' $940 million layout....
Despite the paltry spending, Heinz has certainly been doing something right. Nielsen scanner data for the four weeks ended Feb. 24 show Heinz's average dollar sales up 9.1%, with its Smart Ones frozen-dinners business up 16.4% and Ore-Ida potatoes up 6.9%.
So why does Heinz plan to spend lots more money on crappy television?
Despite the paltry spending, Heinz has certainly been doing something right. Nielsen scanner data for the four weeks ended Feb. 24 show Heinz's average dollar sales up 9.1%, with its Smart Ones frozen-dinners business up 16.4% and Ore-Ida potatoes up 6.9%.
So why does Heinz plan to spend lots more money on crappy television?
It's official: it was an "accidental" overdose.
It was still an overdose.
Now may we forget about this story for, say, the next fourteen centuries?
It was still an overdose.
Now may we forget about this story for, say, the next fourteen centuries?
People achieve more success by cooperation than by competition. This is because people who cooperate share a myriad of aspects that can be applied to their work. Those in competition impede on others success and deny themselves the opportunities to embellish the opportunities of others.
When people cooperate they bring together a plethora of personal talents which can be used to achieve a common goal. In the Redwall Chronicles by Brian Jacques the animals of redwall were able to achieve freedom from their masters by working together. They all brought together special talents such as the moles ability to dig holes and the rabbits ability to jump walls. They were also able to settle their differences (such as the competition for berries and between the fox and the raccoon), and they eventually, though cooperation were vindicated.
Another reason why cooperation is more efficient method of achieving ones means than competition is because people work better in benevolent setting, which is a usual component of cooperation. Last fall my high school was rehearsing for the theatre production of Seussical and I entered with a competitive attitude which hindered the shows progress by making my fellow cast members uncomfortable. However, when I started to work as a team with everyone, the fellow cast calmed down, and together we were able to think straight and achieve our common goal of creating art.
A major reason why cooperation is a preference to competition is because competition induces civil struggle at a time of crisis while cooperation reduces tension. In the 1930’s, American businesses were locked in a fierce economic competition with Russian merchants for fear that their communist philosophies would dominate American markets. As a result, American competition drove the country into an economic depression and the only way to pull them out of it was through civil cooperation. American president Franklin Delenor Roosevelt advocated for civil unity despite the communist threat of success by quoting ‘the only thing we need to fear is itself,’ which desdained competition as an alternative to cooperation for success. In the end, the American economy pulled out of the depression and succeeded communism.
Because of the spirit of unity it induces, cooperation is the key to success. People unified work as a larger and stronger than those separated by competition, allowing utmost success to transpire.
TRANSLATION: An MIT prof dekes out the SATs!
When people cooperate they bring together a plethora of personal talents which can be used to achieve a common goal. In the Redwall Chronicles by Brian Jacques the animals of redwall were able to achieve freedom from their masters by working together. They all brought together special talents such as the moles ability to dig holes and the rabbits ability to jump walls. They were also able to settle their differences (such as the competition for berries and between the fox and the raccoon), and they eventually, though cooperation were vindicated.
Another reason why cooperation is more efficient method of achieving ones means than competition is because people work better in benevolent setting, which is a usual component of cooperation. Last fall my high school was rehearsing for the theatre production of Seussical and I entered with a competitive attitude which hindered the shows progress by making my fellow cast members uncomfortable. However, when I started to work as a team with everyone, the fellow cast calmed down, and together we were able to think straight and achieve our common goal of creating art.
A major reason why cooperation is a preference to competition is because competition induces civil struggle at a time of crisis while cooperation reduces tension. In the 1930’s, American businesses were locked in a fierce economic competition with Russian merchants for fear that their communist philosophies would dominate American markets. As a result, American competition drove the country into an economic depression and the only way to pull them out of it was through civil cooperation. American president Franklin Delenor Roosevelt advocated for civil unity despite the communist threat of success by quoting ‘the only thing we need to fear is itself,’ which desdained competition as an alternative to cooperation for success. In the end, the American economy pulled out of the depression and succeeded communism.
Because of the spirit of unity it induces, cooperation is the key to success. People unified work as a larger and stronger than those separated by competition, allowing utmost success to transpire.
TRANSLATION: An MIT prof dekes out the SATs!
Oh, goody! GE BANCORP AND REALTY may sell its plastics unit to the SAUDIS!
Is GOODTHINGS ENTERTAINMENT next?
Is GOODTHINGS ENTERTAINMENT next?
Sen. Fatso Glub-Glub's dozens of staffers write an op-ed -- again:
Most of us in Congress know that a retreat to mediocrity is wrong.
Wait, Fats! I thought you Congresspooops were questioning the Every Child a Dilbert Act because it was an advance to mediocrity!
Most of us in Congress know that a retreat to mediocrity is wrong.
Wait, Fats! I thought you Congresspooops were questioning the Every Child a Dilbert Act because it was an advance to mediocrity!
The bad: Only streams iTunes content--leaving it up to you to get your videos into iTunes; current crop of iTunes movies and TV shows look much worse on a big-screen TV; no HD content on iTunes Store; can't connect to older non-wide-screen TVs; small 40GB hard drive has only 33GB of usable disk space; oversimplified remote can't control other devices; no ability to purchase iTunes Store content directly through Apple TV; no A/V cables included; no Internet radio support.
The Lord God Steve has another smash hit!
(Via SFGate)
The Lord God Steve has another smash hit!
(Via SFGate)
America's straightest straight-talker is talking curley-Qs again:
"One of the reasons Republicans lost the war - excuse me, lost the election," he said in Ames, Iowa. Then, in Milford, N.H., he said, "My friends, we lost the war - we lost the election, we lost the election because of spending."
So we lost the war -- BOOBS McKEATING!
"One of the reasons Republicans lost the war - excuse me, lost the election," he said in Ames, Iowa. Then, in Milford, N.H., he said, "My friends, we lost the war - we lost the election, we lost the election because of spending."
So we lost the war -- BOOBS McKEATING!
Correction of the day -- of sorts:
Shop Talk [Mark Steyn]
In my post on The New York Times’ interminable report on The Los Angeles Times’ interminable non-scandal, I referred to Henry Weinstein, “a veteran reporter at the paper”, as a “unionized staffer you can never get rid of.” Several readers have pointed out the LA Times is a non-union shop. So Mr Weinstein is not a unionized deadbeat but a non-union deadbeat. I regret the error.
But it does make the paper’s over-staffing with under-performers even less explicable.
03/26 12:56 AM
Does that mean he's still a union man?
Shop Talk [Mark Steyn]
In my post on The New York Times’ interminable report on The Los Angeles Times’ interminable non-scandal, I referred to Henry Weinstein, “a veteran reporter at the paper”, as a “unionized staffer you can never get rid of.” Several readers have pointed out the LA Times is a non-union shop. So Mr Weinstein is not a unionized deadbeat but a non-union deadbeat. I regret the error.
But it does make the paper’s over-staffing with under-performers even less explicable.
03/26 12:56 AM
Does that mean he's still a union man?
1. One of America's greatest supereditors garners umpteen Magazine Academy Award nominations! 2. Circulation and ad pages are down.
Guess who's right.
(Via MediaBistro)
Guess who's right.
(Via MediaBistro)
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Lott Predicts Senate Will Block Withdrawal Timetable for Iraq
That we suspect just about takes care of it, noble, courageous leaders like Sen. Hole-in-the-Bagel notwithstanding.
That we suspect just about takes care of it, noble, courageous leaders like Sen. Hole-in-the-Bagel notwithstanding.
On the other hand, mark two dates: May 31, when A. C. Nielsen starts rating TV commercials, and an as-yet-unspecified date when the FTC issues a report on THE CONSPIRACY'S marketing of violence to youth.
We're praying!
Further reason to pray:
Neither After Dark nor Lionsgate is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the major studios. Such nonmember companies are not bound by the association’s promise to keep ads away from television shows, magazines and Web sites for which 35 percent or more of the audience is under 17. But they do agree to use approved advertising materials for any film that is submitted to the group for rating. In the case of “Captivity,” the association had disapproved of the material and is now considering disciplinary measures.
Like the League of Nations just meted out to Iran? What can THE CONSPIRACY do that isn't a restraint of trade? We hope maybe one of the offenders will sue it the way Tark the Jark sued the professional college sports trust -- and nearly won.
(Second link via ArtsJournal)
We're praying!
Further reason to pray:
Neither After Dark nor Lionsgate is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the major studios. Such nonmember companies are not bound by the association’s promise to keep ads away from television shows, magazines and Web sites for which 35 percent or more of the audience is under 17. But they do agree to use approved advertising materials for any film that is submitted to the group for rating. In the case of “Captivity,” the association had disapproved of the material and is now considering disciplinary measures.
Like the League of Nations just meted out to Iran? What can THE CONSPIRACY do that isn't a restraint of trade? We hope maybe one of the offenders will sue it the way Tark the Jark sued the professional college sports trust -- and nearly won.
(Second link via ArtsJournal)
Bob of ADAGE gazes into his crystal ball (more like cubic zirconia on a bad day) and sees...
...something barely imaginable: a post-apocalyptic media world substantially devoid of brand advertising as we have long known it.
The new realities that are unending the old media and marketing order are now clearly visible and gaining momentum every day.
It's a world in which Canadian trees are left standing and broadcast towers aren't. It's a world in which consumer engagement occurs without consumer interruption, in which listening trumps dictating, in which the internet is a dollar store for movies and series, in which ad agencies are marginalized and Cannes is deserted in the third week of June. It is a world, to be specific, in which marketing -- and even branding -- are conducted without much reliance on the 30-second spot or glossy spread. Because nobody is much interested in seeing them, and because soon they will be largely unnecessary.
TRANSLATION: Bigmedia as we know it now -- crappy long-form TV with whiny ads, newspapers that dictate to the people, three-song-playlist radio -- will be here ten years from now, and twenty years from now, regardless of new paradigms.
Cute artwork, but if I know The Lord God SUMNER, the sledgehammer bounces off His face and conks someone in the audience on the head -- as it always does.
...something barely imaginable: a post-apocalyptic media world substantially devoid of brand advertising as we have long known it.
The new realities that are unending the old media and marketing order are now clearly visible and gaining momentum every day.
It's a world in which Canadian trees are left standing and broadcast towers aren't. It's a world in which consumer engagement occurs without consumer interruption, in which listening trumps dictating, in which the internet is a dollar store for movies and series, in which ad agencies are marginalized and Cannes is deserted in the third week of June. It is a world, to be specific, in which marketing -- and even branding -- are conducted without much reliance on the 30-second spot or glossy spread. Because nobody is much interested in seeing them, and because soon they will be largely unnecessary.
TRANSLATION: Bigmedia as we know it now -- crappy long-form TV with whiny ads, newspapers that dictate to the people, three-song-playlist radio -- will be here ten years from now, and twenty years from now, regardless of new paradigms.
Cute artwork, but if I know The Lord God SUMNER, the sledgehammer bounces off His face and conks someone in the audience on the head -- as it always does.
Sports as the expression of the brotherhood of man:
Cricketers from the Indian subcontinent probably suffer more than anyone. Supporters revere their sports idols, but vilify them when things go wrong. Fans routinely burn effigies of their players, and chant death threats when they lose.
When India lost its first match of this tournament, fans back home ransacked one player's house. In anticipation of the Pakistan team's return, "people are buying rotten eggs," says Syed Shafqat Hussein Shah, a gas station attendant in Islamabad. "They're going to bombard the team."
Cricketers from the Indian subcontinent probably suffer more than anyone. Supporters revere their sports idols, but vilify them when things go wrong. Fans routinely burn effigies of their players, and chant death threats when they lose.
When India lost its first match of this tournament, fans back home ransacked one player's house. In anticipation of the Pakistan team's return, "people are buying rotten eggs," says Syed Shafqat Hussein Shah, a gas station attendant in Islamabad. "They're going to bombard the team."
AudioAnimatronics comes to the orchestra pit in Branson East!
Now is there any telling apart those two tourist traps?
P. S. It still sounds synthesized.
Now is there any telling apart those two tourist traps?
P. S. It still sounds synthesized.
Some more of Zbig's fine Eyetalian Polish hand at work:
Iran ‘to try Britons for espionage’
That seems fair. After all Iran's a sovereign state, and it has a right to prosecute foreign nationals for breaking the law -- like our embassy personnel. Right, Zbig?
Now would be a good time for some Polish Jimmah jokes, but we can't think up any.
Iran ‘to try Britons for espionage’
That seems fair. After all Iran's a sovereign state, and it has a right to prosecute foreign nationals for breaking the law -- like our embassy personnel. Right, Zbig?
Now would be a good time for some Polish Jimmah jokes, but we can't think up any.
Having just been burned by its Three-Stooges-Meet-the-Marx-Brothers handling of that op-ed-section controversy, LALA decides it's going to start making trends.
When news hack start making trends, we hope they start trending -- down.
When news hack start making trends, we hope they start trending -- down.
Greedy eBay sellers who thought prices would go upupUP are upset because it's doing what all those con-SER-va-tives say the free market should be doing (for once) -- driving prices DOWN.
Heck things must be slumping at eBay -- nobody wanted KennyBoy's desk!
Heck things must be slumping at eBay -- nobody wanted KennyBoy's desk!
Okay, Zbig, what did YOU do about the evil war on terror? You helped start it by giving Iran to the mad mullahs. A lot of good that did. I suppose America was "respected" in 1980, when the nation wallowed in self-pity and Jimmah couldn't get his head unstuck from the ostrich hole?
The Fixer, Zbig, Cleaning Lady, Whataburger -- there is NO SHUTTING UP THESE EXPERTS.
The Fixer, Zbig, Cleaning Lady, Whataburger -- there is NO SHUTTING UP THESE EXPERTS.
Well, well! JonBoy puts the same story on all the covers! I guess he wants to end this unjust war! That'll resonate with hundreds of thousands of coffee tables overseas! Plus an elaborate multimedia feature on the Web site! Who says a dinosaur can't change its scales, or whatever?
No DEVIN this week? Shame on YOU!
No DEVIN this week? Shame on YOU!