THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The TWXSTERS, giving the heave-ho to their cable business, celebrate by aping Forbeslist in their FLAGSHIP and adoring 100 allegedly beautiful (Mary J. Blige?!?!?) "stars" (we suppose the former Kingdom of Luce means skin-deep, as ever), and we think we could put together a list of our own 100 most beautiful from the days they still had beauty, and whatever the TWXSTERS' endorsement the pretenders would all slink hopelessly back to the green room.
Oops:
Highest ever: NYC mtg delinquencies up 74%
Does that include all those fancy-dancy zillion-dollar penthouses?
Highest ever: NYC mtg delinquencies up 74%
Does that include all those fancy-dancy zillion-dollar penthouses?
Cablebzzzzzzzzzztvision gets bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt in the bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt newspaper bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt biz.
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(Via the usual Romy)
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!
(Via the usual Romy)
"It irritated me," says Cody McDonald, a Judith Basin County commissioner. "When these things were named a hundred years ago, they didn't mean to offend anybody. … And it's a waste of time. Everybody's still going to call it 'Squaw Coulee.'"
It
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irritates
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me
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too.
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It
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irritates
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me
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Global warming may 'stop' scientists say
Rise in temperatures could halt until 2015 because of natural variations in climate
When do we get global cooling -- again?
Rise in temperatures could halt until 2015 because of natural variations in climate
When do we get global cooling -- again?
An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails
That elephant sure does look like a flea's underfed nephew.
That elephant sure does look like a flea's underfed nephew.
Our favorite Branson East colyumnist Mike does it again:
Here's an exchange I heard the other day:
Press agent 1: "The reason they're called the Outer Critics is because you want to keep them out of the theater!"
Press agent 2: "Have you seen the one who looks like a 1930s film star?"
Press agent 1: "Oh, that's being too kind."
Press agent 2: "No, I mean it. She looks like Vivien Leigh."
Press agent 1: "She looks like Vivian Vance."
Press agent 2: "How about the one with the crippled husband?"
Press agent 1: "I bet the polio picnic in 'Cry-Baby' went down well with him. No wonder they didn't get nominated."
I'm not even going to try to top this kind of malicious theater talk.
Hey if you Branson East bozos put out shows the way you can exchange put-downs....
Here's an exchange I heard the other day:
Press agent 1: "The reason they're called the Outer Critics is because you want to keep them out of the theater!"
Press agent 2: "Have you seen the one who looks like a 1930s film star?"
Press agent 1: "Oh, that's being too kind."
Press agent 2: "No, I mean it. She looks like Vivien Leigh."
Press agent 1: "She looks like Vivian Vance."
Press agent 2: "How about the one with the crippled husband?"
Press agent 1: "I bet the polio picnic in 'Cry-Baby' went down well with him. No wonder they didn't get nominated."
I'm not even going to try to top this kind of malicious theater talk.
Hey if you Branson East bozos put out shows the way you can exchange put-downs....
The Rockefellers want to remake Standard Oil!
Well, not quite. Can you imagine what wealth it would take to do it? Even ST. WARREN couldn't. Pfffffffffffffffft!
Well, not quite. Can you imagine what wealth it would take to do it? Even ST. WARREN couldn't. Pfffffffffffffffft!
Just now at my neighborhood Mickey D's, here comes FunTimes -- "Celebrating Earth Day in April!" Well, better late than never we say, especially with the suggestions on how to be ecologically correct on the back cover -- like "reuse grocery bags"! And "bring a garbage-free lunch to school"! We won't comment on the latter except to say in fairness to the Mick we recall the clamshells, so Ronny has done better -- although we wonder how much better since He now serves eat-in food in bags.
We may also ask how much better when we see this conveniently hidden away from the content, above and to the right of the legalese:
Printed in Canada on recycled paper.
Now how much more energy did it take to send a recycled FunTimes from Canada then it might have taken to print it here? Or is North America's Most PC Country™ so environmentally correct that nothing we could do could use less energy than Canada?
God knows Ronnie loves shooting Himself in the foot; must remind Him of those delicious McDonald's hamburgers.
EEEEEEEEEEEEvery day should be Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeearth Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
We may also ask how much better when we see this conveniently hidden away from the content, above and to the right of the legalese:
Printed in Canada on recycled paper.Now how much more energy did it take to send a recycled FunTimes from Canada then it might have taken to print it here? Or is North America's Most PC Country™ so environmentally correct that nothing we could do could use less energy than Canada?
God knows Ronnie loves shooting Himself in the foot; must remind Him of those delicious McDonald's hamburgers.
EEEEEEEEEEEEvery day should be Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeearth Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
THE FUTURE OF MEDIA: We remain dubious that people will want to watch tiny TV on a computer for very long, though we've done it ourselves, with no little frustration. The day will come for a full-screen, full-fidelity picture, but until then BigMedia will waste a lot of money on it, which gets us smiling because bad news for BigMedia is good news for us.
We also admit to being dubious about advertiser-supported music, especially after our visit to We7; when we clicked on a album (Cult TV Themes by Laurie Johnson) for every track got the message, "Track unavailable[:] We are sorry, but this track is currently unavailable in your region (United States)". We know a few kinks must be worked out in beta (and We7 is definitely beta) but we wonder if such sites are nothing but kinks.
(Both links via the usual ArtsJournal)
We also admit to being dubious about advertiser-supported music, especially after our visit to We7; when we clicked on a album (Cult TV Themes by Laurie Johnson) for every track got the message, "Track unavailable[:] We are sorry, but this track is currently unavailable in your region (United States)". We know a few kinks must be worked out in beta (and We7 is definitely beta) but we wonder if such sites are nothing but kinks.
(Both links via the usual ArtsJournal)
ALL THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
Inflatable pig lost after Roger Waters' Coachella set
We could provide some jokes, but the ASSPress has already provided the punchline.
Inflatable pig lost after Roger Waters' Coachella set
We could provide some jokes, but the ASSPress has already provided the punchline.
EXPLAINER
Life in an Austrian Dungeon
What 24 years in a windowless basement will do to your health.
I don't know, but I can guess what such baldly chortling teases can do to your Web site: there is not A SINGLE AD on Stale.com's home page. How long can St. Warren continue the philanthropy, especially now that He has a multi-billion-dollar sweet tooth?
Life in an Austrian Dungeon
What 24 years in a windowless basement will do to your health.
I don't know, but I can guess what such baldly chortling teases can do to your Web site: there is not A SINGLE AD on Stale.com's home page. How long can St. Warren continue the philanthropy, especially now that He has a multi-billion-dollar sweet tooth?
The new holy word in the Wall Street Casino: DILUTION.
Uh, boys, sell more stock to plug a leaking piggy bank and the existing shareholders may NOT be pleased.
Uh, boys, sell more stock to plug a leaking piggy bank and the existing shareholders may NOT be pleased.
Bush Blames Democrats for Sliding Economy
But of course -- evil Democrats passed the ethanol legislation that's helping to drive food and gas prices up!
Which Democratic president wanted the Democratic congress to pass the ethanol legislation?
GEKKO KUDLOW must be ticked. He still thinks the economy isn't sliding.
But of course -- evil Democrats passed the ethanol legislation that's helping to drive food and gas prices up!
Which Democratic president wanted the Democratic congress to pass the ethanol legislation?
GEKKO KUDLOW must be ticked. He still thinks the economy isn't sliding.
The signal similarity of the sad tales of The Messiah and the 15-year-old dolt is that whom the Media Gods create They would also destroy -- reluctantly. They knew The Messiah stood for truth and justice, more so out of the mouth of His sainted Mentor; They knew the dolt was like a free breakfast, lunch and dinner every day once They could get Their synergistic hands on her. Alas, Their heroes had feet of clay and brains of lead, and now thus they must turn on them -- reluctantly, but vicariously.
Which presidential candidate does Woodster the Perv support?
We can guess which one would go to his movies -- out of allegiance to the cause.
Woodrow Who? indeed.
P. S.
At least Schnozzola and Ethel were willing to be seen.
We can guess which one would go to his movies -- out of allegiance to the cause.
Woodrow Who? indeed.
P. S.
At least Schnozzola and Ethel were willing to be seen.
Mel "I ♥ JEWS!!!!!" Gibson and Aaron "Dilbert" Brown remind us of the Shuberts' (or FDR's, or whomever's) alleged maxim: he may be an SOB, but he's our SOB.
Pelosi: At News Conference This Morning, President Should Agree to Work with Congress to Help the American Economy
MY WAY!
And yes, if it were the other way around we'd say the same thing.
MY WAY!
And yes, if it were the other way around we'd say the same thing.
An ultrageek -- a LINUX programmer, developer of "the ReiserFS filesystem"! (sic) -- has been found guilty of first-degree murder, the sort of thing we puzzle doesn't happen more often.
(Via -- where else? -- Slashdot)
(Via -- where else? -- Slashdot)
Hmmm, this is interesting: The New York Sun's Web site went back to its previous (and more user-friendly) design.
Do you suppose these changes for change's sake are all they're cracked up to be?
Do you suppose these changes for change's sake are all they're cracked up to be?
When Nukeman's assistants make fun of the Barbie doll, the first impulse is to snicker. The snickering should stop when we comprehend the NUKES.
Iranian markets have been inundated with smuggled Western toys in recent years partly due to a dramatic rise in purchasing power as a result of increased oil revenues.
And part of the solution is for DWIGHTs to stop sending the price of oil to $100,000 a barrel -- as if.
I wonder -- what does Nukeman's crew think of Hello Kitty?
Iranian markets have been inundated with smuggled Western toys in recent years partly due to a dramatic rise in purchasing power as a result of increased oil revenues.
And part of the solution is for DWIGHTs to stop sending the price of oil to $100,000 a barrel -- as if.
I wonder -- what does Nukeman's crew think of Hello Kitty?
This, given the source, we may suppose to be a form of satire:
Carey was engaged in a rivalry nearly as fierce as Biggie and Tupac's: a yearslong cutting contest with Whitney Houston, whom she matched melisma for melisma, bromide for bromide.
Unfortunately, we know Stale.com, and we know Jody is chiseling a statue with words, creating another immortality in Eight-Octave, which is why we don't pay as much attention to Michael "Lehrer" Kinsley's snark as we used to.
Carey was engaged in a rivalry nearly as fierce as Biggie and Tupac's: a yearslong cutting contest with Whitney Houston, whom she matched melisma for melisma, bromide for bromide.
Unfortunately, we know Stale.com, and we know Jody is chiseling a statue with words, creating another immortality in Eight-Octave, which is why we don't pay as much attention to Michael "Lehrer" Kinsley's snark as we used to.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour yesterday said that he is too conservative to be John McCain's running mate....
Too conservative? Too sleazy.
Too conservative? Too sleazy.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Guenther Platter, the Austrian Interior Minister, said: "We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime. Everything that has happened here goes beyond one's imagination."
Don't boast -- you gave the world HITLER.
Don't boast -- you gave the world HITLER.
So much for that fawning Forbeslist fool the eighty-something Mr. Brady: The Drunken Slob has lost a chunk of his Noo Yawk audience from his predecessors -- and he badly trails BOOMER ESIASON!
Calling all sycophants! Calling Jeff "MENSA" Greenfield! Calling the staff of Zeitgeist! Calling Sen. Morals and Sen. Boobs McKeating! Drunk needs help! STAT!
Calling all sycophants! Calling Jeff "MENSA" Greenfield! Calling the staff of Zeitgeist! Calling Sen. Morals and Sen. Boobs McKeating! Drunk needs help! STAT!
God knows how many ways ASSPress can slant a poll, but what if PILLHEAD gets his way -- and he loses?
Be careful what you wish for; it might cut your audience in half.
Be careful what you wish for; it might cut your audience in half.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina's Republican Party of being "out of touch with reality" over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama.
FLIP...
Days after denouncing fellow Republicans for producing a television advertisement linking Senator Obama to polarizing comments made by his former pastor, Senator McCain is softening his opposition to political use of the issue and is even stoking the story by publicly condemning newly published inflammatory remarks from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.
FLOP!
FLIP...
Days after denouncing fellow Republicans for producing a television advertisement linking Senator Obama to polarizing comments made by his former pastor, Senator McCain is softening his opposition to political use of the issue and is even stoking the story by publicly condemning newly published inflammatory remarks from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.
FLOP!
[O]ur analysis of more than 24,000 deals between 1996 and 2006 reveals that companies that acquired through the last downturn (2001 to 2002) generated almost triple the excess returns of companies that made acquisitions during prior boom years.
St. Warren is more than a mere God, He is -- the universe!
St. Warren is more than a mere God, He is -- the universe!
And in other worlds of megalomania:
...minimal progress....
Please -- let there be more minimal progress!
...minimal progress....
Please -- let there be more minimal progress!
What is St. Warren up to? Is He trying to create another Kraft Foods? Or is He trying to build a Unilever from scratch? Either way it sounds like another chronic underachiever. We would like to know what's in it for Him, other than more Holy Warren Empire building.
P. S. With $10 billion in debt we may wonder how long Mars Inc. will remain the world's most secretive corporation.
P. S. With $10 billion in debt we may wonder how long Mars Inc. will remain the world's most secretive corporation.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
If it's Sunday, it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:
1. New GM Brand Czars Will Influence Product
Quartet Empowered With 'Voice' in Incentives, Vehicle Development
And how many times has the big GM rearranged the deck chairs on its leaky boat?
2. Let's see: Newspapers took in 39 percent of all U. S. ad spending in 1940, but only 15 percent today. That looks REAL BAD until you think that radio hardly ran any ads at all compared to today, and TV didn't exist, and the Web didn't exist, and you didn't have MARKETERS plastering ads on sidewalks and urinals and ballparks and school buses, so we'd bet these masters of the half-truth are taking in considerably more than they took in 68 years ago, even with the "decrease" -- and the "death watch".
3. Whither Wendy's Under Nelson Peltz
Here's whither, if we had to guess: It'll spend lots more money on stupid, condescending, annoying, irritating, junk-financing TV ADS while neglecting the product. Such has always been the fate of the second tier moping behind Mickey D. These money-juggling entrepreneurs wouldn't have it otherwise.
1. New GM Brand Czars Will Influence Product
Quartet Empowered With 'Voice' in Incentives, Vehicle Development
And how many times has the big GM rearranged the deck chairs on its leaky boat?
2. Let's see: Newspapers took in 39 percent of all U. S. ad spending in 1940, but only 15 percent today. That looks REAL BAD until you think that radio hardly ran any ads at all compared to today, and TV didn't exist, and the Web didn't exist, and you didn't have MARKETERS plastering ads on sidewalks and urinals and ballparks and school buses, so we'd bet these masters of the half-truth are taking in considerably more than they took in 68 years ago, even with the "decrease" -- and the "death watch".
3. Whither Wendy's Under Nelson Peltz
Here's whither, if we had to guess: It'll spend lots more money on stupid, condescending, annoying, irritating, junk-financing TV ADS while neglecting the product. Such has always been the fate of the second tier moping behind Mickey D. These money-juggling entrepreneurs wouldn't have it otherwise.
Jay of the WaPost writes:
Our real problem is the bottom 30 percent of U.S. schools, those in urban and rural communities full of low-income children. We have seen enough successful schools in such areas to know that many of those children are just as capable of being great scientists, doctors, and executives as suburban children are.
In the name of counterintuition we get silly, stupid writing. What constitutes a "great" scientist? Or a "great" doctor? Or especially a "great" executive? See, but hacks don't have to think, they can just write. Education must be about creating more technocrats. Dubya decreed it. Jay believes it. Getting the bottom 30 percent of U. S. schools up to par merely means more technocrats. And not everyone has the cranial wherewithal to be "great". Using "great" is just as bad as the self-serving inflated numbers of new-minted Chinese and Indian technocrats this typist complains about. Dammit, we have enough Steve Greers. Modern America lacks a soul; factory-producing millions who are supersmart in school and become "GREAT" technocrats is the answer to the wrong question.
I expect better from The Wilson Quarterly; I guess we can stop expecting.
Our real problem is the bottom 30 percent of U.S. schools, those in urban and rural communities full of low-income children. We have seen enough successful schools in such areas to know that many of those children are just as capable of being great scientists, doctors, and executives as suburban children are.
In the name of counterintuition we get silly, stupid writing. What constitutes a "great" scientist? Or a "great" doctor? Or especially a "great" executive? See, but hacks don't have to think, they can just write. Education must be about creating more technocrats. Dubya decreed it. Jay believes it. Getting the bottom 30 percent of U. S. schools up to par merely means more technocrats. And not everyone has the cranial wherewithal to be "great". Using "great" is just as bad as the self-serving inflated numbers of new-minted Chinese and Indian technocrats this typist complains about. Dammit, we have enough Steve Greers. Modern America lacks a soul; factory-producing millions who are supersmart in school and become "GREAT" technocrats is the answer to the wrong question.
I expect better from The Wilson Quarterly; I guess we can stop expecting.
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To ease some of the pain, studios have again enlisted the help of Madison Avenue firms, whose client brands will pony up considerable coin -- mostly overseas -- to tie in with tentpoles.
For example, partners like General Mills, Target, Mattel, Lego, Esurance and Puma are shelling out more than $80 million in promo support for WB's "Speed Racer."
Similarly, "Iron Man" has its own shopping list of brands, including Audi and LG Electronics, while "The Dark Knight" has Nokia, Domino's, General Mills and Microsoft's Xbox on board. M&Ms, Dr. Pepper, Expedia and Kraft Lunchables will shill for "Indiana Jones." And naturally, brand-friendly "Sex and the City" isn't left out, with Mercedes-Benz, Skyy vodka, Coty fragrances and Glaceau Vitaminwater.
Brands with multiple movie pacts include Burger King, which is cooking up promos for "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk" and "Indiana Jones," while 7-Eleven is also supporting "Iron Man" and "Hulk."
All have ads planned to roll out weeks before the pics unspool with in-store and in-theater ads and displays, TV, print, radio, direct mail, sweepstakes and online campaigns.
Alas, this enthusiasm is followed with a question:
The studio marketing machine may be working overtime to get its messaging across to moviegoers. But is it too much?
Nothing is too much for any CEO who wants to live forever.
The only thing these TENTPOLES are missing are commercial breaks.
P. S. from March 16:
"It's part of Americana," Steve Greer, Big G's global equity and events director, said of the franchise. "It's a classic that will always be part of a kid's and a family's world."
We wonder why more of these people with six-figure do-nothing jobs in consumer products don't run for Congress. They don't merely mouth clichés, they live them.
To ease some of the pain, studios have again enlisted the help of Madison Avenue firms, whose client brands will pony up considerable coin -- mostly overseas -- to tie in with tentpoles.
For example, partners like General Mills, Target, Mattel, Lego, Esurance and Puma are shelling out more than $80 million in promo support for WB's "Speed Racer."
Similarly, "Iron Man" has its own shopping list of brands, including Audi and LG Electronics, while "The Dark Knight" has Nokia, Domino's, General Mills and Microsoft's Xbox on board. M&Ms, Dr. Pepper, Expedia and Kraft Lunchables will shill for "Indiana Jones." And naturally, brand-friendly "Sex and the City" isn't left out, with Mercedes-Benz, Skyy vodka, Coty fragrances and Glaceau Vitaminwater.
Brands with multiple movie pacts include Burger King, which is cooking up promos for "Iron Man," "The Incredible Hulk" and "Indiana Jones," while 7-Eleven is also supporting "Iron Man" and "Hulk."
All have ads planned to roll out weeks before the pics unspool with in-store and in-theater ads and displays, TV, print, radio, direct mail, sweepstakes and online campaigns.
Alas, this enthusiasm is followed with a question:
The studio marketing machine may be working overtime to get its messaging across to moviegoers. But is it too much?
Nothing is too much for any CEO who wants to live forever.
The only thing these TENTPOLES are missing are commercial breaks.
P. S. from March 16:
"It's part of Americana," Steve Greer, Big G's global equity and events director, said of the franchise. "It's a classic that will always be part of a kid's and a family's world."
We wonder why more of these people with six-figure do-nothing jobs in consumer products don't run for Congress. They don't merely mouth clichés, they live them.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The CEO of GE BANCORP'S GAMES SUBSID breaks wind with his mouth:
“It took us 200 years to evolve from the French Revolution. China started in 1949.”
1. 1949 + 200 = 2149. I think today's Chinese can wait. 2. A nation that can "evolve" from the Reign of Terror to a Vichy "government" to Jjjjjjjacques "Saddam" Chiracccccc evolves solely in a manner of speaking.
Shut up, Monsieeeeur Rrrrrrrrrrogge.
If there's an argument for press bankruptcy (in several senses) it's the Friday front-page advertorials in USAOKAY!!!!! They're so outlandish you expect SUMNER to show up on an AdAge back cover boasting, "USATODAY has sold more of our properties than any other media outlet. They know what to do." They surely do: selling the NFL draft; selling this year's tentpoles with the excuse they're fan-popular "nostalgia" (read: condescending creative exhaustion). There was only one bit of legitimate news above the fold, and that couldn't scream its way past the ads. That's why the Newseum (financed by the USAOKAY!!!!! people) rings false; it's just advertising for a noble cause.
The Messiah is a superior snob. Media types are superior snobs. No wonder their marriage was made in...heaven.
Those who think The Messiah will be a one-termer are deluding themselves. We still recall all the ads for CLINTON'S-ONE-TERM calendars in the back of R. Emmett's rag. And the GOP may be weaker in 2012 than it is now -- regardless of how many stupid things He does.
Those who think The Messiah will be a one-termer are deluding themselves. We still recall all the ads for CLINTON'S-ONE-TERM calendars in the back of R. Emmett's rag. And the GOP may be weaker in 2012 than it is now -- regardless of how many stupid things He does.
SAM LITTLE congratulates himself for having taken one of The Messiah's friends off His Web site. Just one problem: there are many more friends where that came from.
Forty-two months since FONTS, Sam.
Forty-two months since FONTS, Sam.
Mort Zuck digs deep into his increasingly unoccupied pocket and pulls out...a paper!
Is this the end of Useless News, Mort?
Is this the end of Useless News, Mort?
Friday, April 25, 2008
Some people think by throwing their money at outfits like Hahvahd Mutual Fund they're somehow (to use a word they like to use) IMPACTING the future. Oh yes they are: they're financing more skollars who sound as though they repeatedly IMPACT themselves on the head with a two-by-four, not to mention all manner of investment bankers who IMPACT parents with ever higher bills.
You'd think a Rockefeller would know better. Rockefellers don't know better.
You'd think a Rockefeller would know better. Rockefellers don't know better.
Last year's top five picks--LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell, Georgia Tech receiver Calvin Johnson, Wisconsin tackle Joe Thomas, Clemson defensive end Gaines Adams and Penn State tackle Levi Brown--took just under a third of last year's rookie money, while the top 10 picks accounted for half. Those breakdowns are in line with those in 2000, when the top five picks took home 32% of the money; the top 10 picks took 51%.
So how does ESPNCORP turn THE DRAFT into a two-day industry?
So how does ESPNCORP turn THE DRAFT into a two-day industry?
Even as it (and its fellow in unpaid advertising) boasts of another TENTPOLE MASTERPIECE, the Big V breathlessly informs us that veteran of plastic surgery Carrie's doing a one-woman tourist trap for Branson East next year, which, combined with thoughts of tentpoles, once again makes me pinch myself to realize what an age of artistic GENIUS we live in.
"So that when a company like Clear Channel starts gobbling up all the radio stations or, uh, uh, you know, Rupert Murdoch starts having his eyes on a bunch of different media outlets, they can outbid a lot small--smaller outlets."
FLIP...
And all of a sudden, the candidate has decided to appear on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Wallace attributed Obama’s decision to a "count-up" clock that marked the days since Obama first agreed to appear as a guest.
FLOP!
JPod! Does this make The Messiah con-SER-va-tive?
FLIP...
And all of a sudden, the candidate has decided to appear on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Wallace attributed Obama’s decision to a "count-up" clock that marked the days since Obama first agreed to appear as a guest.
FLOP!
JPod! Does this make The Messiah con-SER-va-tive?
BULLETIN!!!!!
CRUDE SURGES AFTER REPORT THAT U.S. FIRED TOWARD IRANIAN SHIP IN GULF
DWIGHT and company go YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
CRUDE SURGES AFTER REPORT THAT U.S. FIRED TOWARD IRANIAN SHIP IN GULF
DWIGHT and company go YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Now -- can New York's Not-So-Finest (the hacks, that is) start a riot? After all, these typists have proven they can create a God.
We want to see Honorary fighting a riot. He'd hole up in City Hall somewhere, counting the billions in his afterlife.
We want to see Honorary fighting a riot. He'd hole up in City Hall somewhere, counting the billions in his afterlife.
Entertainment Weekly has been criticized as being too soft on the entertainment industry....
Couldn'ta done it without you, B. S. DEFENDER.
Couldn'ta done it without you, B. S. DEFENDER.
The Jim Cramer of foodstuffs has a name, and it's Dwight Anderson.
Thanks a lot, BizWeek. But why couldn't you have reported this instead of palming us off two-day-old stuff from Der Spiegel? Looking for another DONALD to trumpet?
Obviously he didn't buy up every picture.
Thanks a lot, BizWeek. But why couldn't you have reported this instead of palming us off two-day-old stuff from Der Spiegel? Looking for another DONALD to trumpet?
Obviously he didn't buy up every picture.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
And it's not just Forbeslist.com:
Keys cancels Cleveland concert with swollen vocal chords
Has anyone thought the Web is so much better at spreading errors of all kinds than the old fashioned news biz? Where's the advantage of that, Professor?
Although this did come from ASSPress, which is as old-media as you can get.
Keys cancels Cleveland concert with swollen vocal chords
Has anyone thought the Web is so much better at spreading errors of all kinds than the old fashioned news biz? Where's the advantage of that, Professor?
Although this did come from ASSPress, which is as old-media as you can get.
The success of Eight-Octave's latest masterpiece suggests that, contrary to all those obits, the recorded...SOUND biz can yet twitch its corpse; there are still enough people who can be marketed and CHEAP CHANNELED into buying an album, whatever its merits (or especially lack thereof); and just a few "lucky" "breaks" and a few more overpublicized masterpieces could create a floor to this biz' freefall, and the noise would pay for itself again, with the extra added attraction of overexposure on the Web, which with a little work could make CHEAP CHANNEL into a champion of artistic diversity.
Humans flirted with extinction 70,000 years ago
We can guess what a few obvious activist groups must be thinking.
We can guess what a few obvious activist groups must be thinking.
One point's difference -- an eighteen-point lead for the Tories!
England's politics is almost as invincible as ours!
England's politics is almost as invincible as ours!
What making nice with the Libyans did:
Several Western ambassadors walked out of a Security Council meeting yesterday after a Libyan representative compared Israel's actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis in the concentration camps.
Several Western ambassadors walked out of a Security Council meeting yesterday after a Libyan representative compared Israel's actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis in the concentration camps.
The Secretary of Kellogg's does something useful:
Gutierrez: Don’t Forget to Redeem Converter-Box Coupons
Gutierrez: Don’t Forget to Redeem Converter-Box Coupons
I suppose we should be pleased that Ford turned a surprise profit, but the pleasure may wear off quickly with the knowledge that a lot of that profit has come from closing a good chunk of the company.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Interesting observation about The Messiah, though it comes from JPod:
He never smiles. He never, ever smiles.
But then I doubt if God did too much smiling for Michelangelo.
He never smiles. He never, ever smiles.
But then I doubt if God did too much smiling for Michelangelo.
It’s early October 2008, and Democratic nominee Barack Obama maintains a steady lead in the presidential race, although Republican standard-bearer John McCain, the most dogged campaigner in American politics, remains within striking range.
Suddenly, something happens overseas that throws the presidential campaigns off the TV screens entirely: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on vacation in Italy, is arrested and brought to The Hague to face war crimes charges....
Don’t think it can’t happen. I think the arrest abroad of an American is only a matter of time and, between now and November, is at least as likely as another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Since when has Politico.com been running satire?
Suddenly, something happens overseas that throws the presidential campaigns off the TV screens entirely: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on vacation in Italy, is arrested and brought to The Hague to face war crimes charges....
Don’t think it can’t happen. I think the arrest abroad of an American is only a matter of time and, between now and November, is at least as likely as another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Since when has Politico.com been running satire?
But then, no financial fad can be forever.
We now have second thoughts about whether SBUX can stage a MICKEY D! comeback. People don't eat coffee.
We now have second thoughts about whether SBUX can stage a MICKEY D! comeback. People don't eat coffee.
Speaking of which, how many who are long rice are long APPLE?
Or to put it another way, how many are borderline psychopaths?
Or to put it another way, how many are borderline psychopaths?
THE "PANIC PHASE" OF THE CREDIT MELTDOWN IS OVER -- ENDING WITH THE COLLAPSE LAST MONTH OF BROKERAGE BEAR STEARNS -- AND STOCKS ARE POISED TO POST STRONG GAINS IN COMING MONTHS!!!!!!!!!! veteran mutual-fund manager Bill Miller says. (Enthusiastic BUY-NOW! first-graf overemphasis added)
...Even as the credit crunch mounted last year, Miller maintained bullish stances on those troubled sectors, including two prominent fund holdings that became poster children for the crisis: Citigroup Inc. and Countrywide Financial Corp.
NO COMMENT.
...Even as the credit crunch mounted last year, Miller maintained bullish stances on those troubled sectors, including two prominent fund holdings that became poster children for the crisis: Citigroup Inc. and Countrywide Financial Corp.
NO COMMENT.
At U. of Georgia, Furor Over Clarence Thomas
Let me guess -- it's not because of Anita, it's because he's CONSERVATIVE. But then a-ca-DE-mics are always good at putting up smokescreens, they living their whole lives in a FOG.
Let me guess -- it's not because of Anita, it's because he's CONSERVATIVE. But then a-ca-DE-mics are always good at putting up smokescreens, they living their whole lives in a FOG.
“It’s extremely unlikely that today’s children will have shorter life expectancies than their parents. From everything I see, we continue to make rapid progress at extending life as a result of improvements in medical technology and personal health practices," such as smoking less, says Samuel Preston, a professor of demography at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "Yes, we are fatter than we used to be but the implications of that have not been nearly as severe as has been popularly assumed."
And for proof of this we need only turn to the concurrent epidemic of anorexia, pfffffffffft.
And for proof of this we need only turn to the concurrent epidemic of anorexia, pfffffffffft.
Despite his reputation as a swordsman, Mailer ironically won the Literary Review's "Bad Sex in Fiction Award" last year for his clunky depiction of intimacy between Hitler's parents in "The Castle in the Forest."
NUF SAID.
NUF SAID.
For God's sake why should we begrudge Boobs his disability pension? And it this raises questions about whether he is fit for office, we could say the same of most of our other presidents.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
And of course these same JIM CRAMERS!!!!! take the words of HENRY BLODGETS!!!!! as holy writ, meaning G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE at $5,000 a share along with gasoline at $10 a gallon.
Or GE BANCORP down $4, the sort of thing that makes us smile.
Or GE BANCORP down $4, the sort of thing that makes us smile.
Commisioner offers reassurance after shootings leave 4 wounded
Reassurance of what? That there'll be more shootings -- and more NO SNITCHIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best thing muni-CI-pal officers can reassure us of is that they haven't had ghetto crime under control in decades, and never will again.
Reassurance of what? That there'll be more shootings -- and more NO SNITCHIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best thing muni-CI-pal officers can reassure us of is that they haven't had ghetto crime under control in decades, and never will again.
Leaving the train station on the way home I saw a hundred or more screaming yelling happy people waving Hillary signs, with a few big banners for The Messiah amongst, everyone cheering and smiling, the policemen moving them back to clear the traffic, and I thought, if only I could be that merry, supporting a candidate. Why must political happiness end in youth? Scanning the ballot at the polling place in the middle of work (quite a respectable turnout -- over 200 when I left) I saw most of the candidates ran unopposed. But for an artificially contrived rivalry between a couple of candidates too far close in outlook to merit anything but scorn this would be another gloomy run-of-the-mill marking of time, something the hacks seem incapable of remembering when they speak with grin to the mirror of soaring interest.
Did you know RON PAUL!!!!!'s on the ballot in Pennsylvania? I didn't. So is Gov. Hucklechuckle, who was holy before The Messiah took Heaven lock, stock and barrel away from him.
Did you know RON PAUL!!!!!'s on the ballot in Pennsylvania? I didn't. So is Gov. Hucklechuckle, who was holy before The Messiah took Heaven lock, stock and barrel away from him.
Jacobs Media said, "The radio industry, led by the NAB, has been aggressive in fighting against the merger. And while we agree that satellite radio poses a threat to traditional AM/FM radio, there's nothing in the data that indicates that either service has significant momentum. In fact, there are signs that they have to fight to maintain the customer base that they already have."
Now give me a second, I have to think: three or four years ago there was this fellow named -- I'm guessing here, so I may not be right -- Horace...Stang! who got a big contract from XM and said he was going to change the face of radio. After a few press releases from DA POST!!!!! he disappeared. We do not blame the satradio "subscribers" for ditching on it.
Oh, now I know -- his name was Strong -- Harvey Strong! That's it!
Natch, the story doesn't even mention Strong.
(Via IWantMedia)
Now give me a second, I have to think: three or four years ago there was this fellow named -- I'm guessing here, so I may not be right -- Horace...Stang! who got a big contract from XM and said he was going to change the face of radio. After a few press releases from DA POST!!!!! he disappeared. We do not blame the satradio "subscribers" for ditching on it.
Oh, now I know -- his name was Strong -- Harvey Strong! That's it!
Natch, the story doesn't even mention Strong.
(Via IWantMedia)
A bad day for people who swear by Romy: SLIME's editor at the Journals is quitting (can we make that a protest vote?), and He's buying NEWSDAY! What we will stalwarts for the First Amendment do?
What we always do: Pretentiously bury our heads in the sand and take them out every now and then to spin and sell.
What we always do: Pretentiously bury our heads in the sand and take them out every now and then to spin and sell.
Monday, April 21, 2008
MySpace Poisons News Corp. as Investors Shun Murdoch
Can anyone say why throwing billions into the Web would NOT have turned it poisonous?
``When you have such a powerful asset as MySpace and you can't successfully monetize it, that's a problem for investors,'' said Daniel Poole, assistant research director at National City Corp., which manages $34 billion in Cleveland.
And National City knows about monetizing. Pfffffffffft!
(Via IWantMedia)
Can anyone say why throwing billions into the Web would NOT have turned it poisonous?
``When you have such a powerful asset as MySpace and you can't successfully monetize it, that's a problem for investors,'' said Daniel Poole, assistant research director at National City Corp., which manages $34 billion in Cleveland.
And National City knows about monetizing. Pfffffffffft!
(Via IWantMedia)
Okay, STALE.COM alumnus, since you've been trained by your resume NOT to say what's wrong with The Onion, we'll do it for you: At best its humor is cutely whimsical, at worst it repeats itself again and again and again. And Virginia, since you seem to believe it's very very VERY good, name one instance of its brilliant humor from the last twenty years you can cite without turning to a computer or reading a back issue.
(Via the usual Romy)
(Via the usual Romy)
Run-up in agricultural prices to take center stage
Forum hosted by the CFTC will debate role of speculators
TRANSLATION: Who can say NOT ME! the loudest?
Forum hosted by the CFTC will debate role of speculators
TRANSLATION: Who can say NOT ME! the loudest?
Rance pats his business on the back, citing an oil wonk as saying consumers do so differentiate by brand, even as the expert he chose admits in the seventh graf that "discount retail outlets such as Wal-Mart and Costco and supermarket chains such as Kroger have experienced a significant jump in recent years in retail gasoline share, reaching a combined 13% at year's end...and 'we continue to see that share grow.'" No, I do not think we love BIGOIL just yet.
"GENIUS":
The teen drama has been around for literally thousands of years. Helen of Troy was barely a teenager when she was abducted by the king of Athens because he had the hots for her, and hello, talk about drama.
Clearly SUPERADAM!!!!! needs TWICE the number of National Magazine Awards, and maybe a fifth the subscribers.
The teen drama has been around for literally thousands of years. Helen of Troy was barely a teenager when she was abducted by the king of Athens because he had the hots for her, and hello, talk about drama.
Clearly SUPERADAM!!!!! needs TWICE the number of National Magazine Awards, and maybe a fifth the subscribers.
Thanks, Wall Street Casino, for bringing even the thought of food rationing here!
In time this bubble will burst, but not before these options maniacs have inflicted serious damage.
In time this bubble will burst, but not before these options maniacs have inflicted serious damage.
Fresh from authorising a £50 billion debt swap to shore up the British banking system, Gordon Brown was preparing today to discuss Third World education issues with Shakira, the Colombian pop star.
The Prime Minister is due to hold telephone talks this evening with the sultry Latin singer, whose hits include Hips Don’t Lie.
We'd say there'll always be an England, but we don't know for how long.
The Prime Minister is due to hold telephone talks this evening with the sultry Latin singer, whose hits include Hips Don’t Lie.
We'd say there'll always be an England, but we don't know for how long.
Insiders Keith and Michael daydream:
TIMES MAY BE FIT FOR BLOOMBERG MERGER
Then again, we know HONORARY, and the only thing better than running with SEN. HOLE-IN-THE-BAGEL would be to get your name on the Paper of Re-CORD's FRONT PAGE for three months.
P. S. at 10:20 a.m. HONORARY's putting out lots of feelers -- how about some profs at JOHNS HOPKINS?
The letter mentions the mayor’s personal wealth, but says that’s not what makes him an attractive candidate.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
TIMES MAY BE FIT FOR BLOOMBERG MERGER
Then again, we know HONORARY, and the only thing better than running with SEN. HOLE-IN-THE-BAGEL would be to get your name on the Paper of Re-CORD's FRONT PAGE for three months.
P. S. at 10:20 a.m. HONORARY's putting out lots of feelers -- how about some profs at JOHNS HOPKINS?
The letter mentions the mayor’s personal wealth, but says that’s not what makes him an attractive candidate.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Which raises the question, ROMY, since you posted the link: Because your friends the HACKS forever tell us of the insightful GENIUS from the ED and ERIC of COMEDY, why not have THEM emcee a debate?
LALA's in a bit of a tizz because SLIME'S Major Bowes act has hit an air pocket. It is a wonder this didn't happen sooner; but we shouldn't forget the hacks, with their propensity to sell anything, fueled the craft and helped put it in the air, and commissioned months of non-stop buncombe piloting it. This year the aviation has been nowhere near as intense as before, which would seem to prove LALA's contention that "kids 2 to 11" are abandoning it.
I never thought I'd see the day when I would be unhappy to be sent home. Five years ago, when I was gainfully unemployed, I might have chafed, but I'm so used to work now that I can't imagine loafing; I hate taking vacation days. To get to the point there was a huge fire in a warehouse almost diagonally opposite from our workplace, and it might have passed as unnoticed as a seven-alarmer could but a strong northeast wind blew the smoke right into our building and made my eyes sting; embers dotted the walkway and the grass. With our ventilation shut off and the water pressure low our director sent us packing. Seeing the above picture it is no wonder our cities have been so prone to arson; this was a fire trap, and give a local retard two sticks and you have three "news" helicopters flying over the neighborhood. I still faintly reek of smoke, though I've gotten out of my clothes.
Here's hoping we're more or less back to normal tomorrow; I was looking forward to a sea of Hillary and Messiah signs at the entrance (the building is a city polling place).
P. S. A company called APB Transportation was ensconced there; not long ago it had put a spiffy sign atop the building. Oh well.
CORRECTION at 10:00 a.m. IfItBleedsItLeads.com is reporting the trucking company survived, but something burned.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas would accept a deal creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip if it was approved by Palestinians in a vote, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Monday after talks with Hamas leaders.
Carter said he had "no doubt that both the Arab world and the Palestinians, including Hamas, will accept Israel's right to live in peace" within pre-1967 war borders.
But some of Hamas's commitments to Carter, in talks he held with the Islamist group's top leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, were short on details and remarks by a Gaza-based Hamas official suggested the movement was not abandoning long-held positions.
TRANSLATION: SAP!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
"If we imagine a life without the arts," she says, "it would be a horrible, ugly world."
The way the AHTS are these days it's a horrible, ugly world WITH them.
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)
The way the AHTS are these days it's a horrible, ugly world WITH them.
(Via the usual AHTSJournal)
No one has to tell MB2 he can condescend with the best of them!
Just get him started on fast-food restaurants, or the BOSS.
Just get him started on fast-food restaurants, or the BOSS.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Speaking of dogs that won't stop barking, every @#$%&* cable news channel must have its BANSHEE PROFIT CENTER: BILL!!!!! LOU!!!!! KEITH!!!!! JACK!!!!! They scream at the top of their lungs to gain advertising revenue -- and only. We cannot trust any of them because their beliefs are clearly fungible. That they come across as honest as professional wrestling doesn't help. So long as we have screamers we should not trust one word from any cable-news outfit, including definite and indefinite articles.
Having endured a musical vagrant tonight I think I know why The Messiah gets to me: He wouldn't hurt a fly -- even if a whole kennel made its home on His street.
We must say we may have judged the Pope a bit harshly by insisting he was spreading platitudes, but speaking before Catholic YOUNUHVERSUHTEE execs and the League of Nations is bound to bring out the blather in nearly anyone. It is now clear the chief focus of the Pontiff's visit is to combat priestly sex abuse, and he has been forthright about it, as well he had to be, for the church in the U. S. is in a bad enough way without pervs in its midst.
Friday, April 18, 2008
In a hard-to-read article (dark type on a grayish-brown background) "an entertainment blogger for b5media" (roll the eyes) says the concert business is going kerflooey, weighted down with geezer acts, and all because all those kids are listening to their faves on the Web. We expect such keyboard testing from entertainment bloggers (and from DOW 36,000, who once opined OPERA IS HEALTHIER THAN EVER!!!!!), but riddle me this: Between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the Web boom newer powerhouse acts had plenty of time to establish themselves. Why didn't they? Maybe because they weren't so powerhouse. Next to today's "acts" they're positively the Beatles. Entertainment bloggers and like minds will NEVER admit pop music's simply been getting worse and worse -- but then they wouldn't be entertainment bloggers.
(Via the usual Arts & Letters Daily)
(Via the usual Arts & Letters Daily)
Dalai Lama: 'Nothing positive' has come from talks with China
Which is why it pays for China to keep talking.
Which is why it pays for China to keep talking.
Psychologist: 'No Traditional Foster Care' for Polygamy Kids
TRANSLATION: All the king's horses and all the king's men....
TRANSLATION: All the king's horses and all the king's men....
Lindsay Lohan to Dad: Stop Talking to Reporters
We COULD say something about pots and kettles, but will hold our tongue instead.
We COULD say something about pots and kettles, but will hold our tongue instead.
The point is that most movies are terrible. Most movies have always been terrible.
Is that why you've praised so many of SLIME's movies, JPod?
Is that why you've praised so many of SLIME's movies, JPod?
Bad News Really Is Bad News For Citi
Unless you're in the Wall Street Casino, then it really IS GOOD NEWS!
Unless you're in the Wall Street Casino, then it really IS GOOD NEWS!
Speaking of He, today we saw two eager young beavers at an intersection flipping arrow-shaped MESSIAH signs as though they were skateboards, which got us thinking about all the humongous balls the W-Higs rolled through city streets for Tippecanoe -- which got us revising his old campaign song:
What has caused this great commotion-motion-motion,
Our country through?
It is the ball a-rolling on-on,
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
And with Him we'll beat little Hill, Hill,
Hill is a used-up pill.
And with Him we'll beat little Hill.
Like the rushing of mighty waters, waters, waters,
On it will go,
And in its course will clear the way
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
And with Him we'll beat little Hill, Hill,
Hill can go back to Bill.
And with Him we'll beat little Hill.
But shouldn't "we" be capitalized too?
What has caused this great commotion-motion-motion,
Our country through?
It is the ball a-rolling on-on,
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
And with Him we'll beat little Hill, Hill,
Hill is a used-up pill.
And with Him we'll beat little Hill.
Like the rushing of mighty waters, waters, waters,
On it will go,
And in its course will clear the way
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
For Barack the Messiah -- He is God!
And with Him we'll beat little Hill, Hill,
Hill can go back to Bill.
And with Him we'll beat little Hill.
But shouldn't "we" be capitalized too?
Also via IWantMedia, LEGENDARY DAVIS is stepping aside, to be replaced by a bean counter, meaning LEG stepped aside because He was afraid His bean would be counted.
What will He do without His worshipers?
What will He do without His worshipers?
A big surprise: Useless News is cutting its frequency and circulation, meaning Mort Zuck can make every issue into a list, or maybe turn the rag into perpetual college guide, or maybe he can just run it into the ground, as per usual.
Google Profit Report Rewards Options Traders With 17,530% Gain
I guess this means the idiots are back, and GEKKO KUDLOW can hug himself again.
I guess this means the idiots are back, and GEKKO KUDLOW can hug himself again.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Sallie Mae, the largest U.S. student loan company, on Thursday affirmed its 2008 profit forecast, but warned of a "train wreck" in the $85 billion education financing market without urgent government intervention.
Is there any debt UNCLE SUCKER can't and won't be made to guarantee?
Is there any debt UNCLE SUCKER can't and won't be made to guarantee?
WHAT THE PUBLIC GETS: ANOTHER TERMITE-INFESTED TENTPOLE FINANCED BY CEOS WHO WANT TO SCHMOOZE.
Burger King, 7-Eleven, Audi, Estée Lauder...TO BE CONTINUED.
Burger King, 7-Eleven, Audi, Estée Lauder...TO BE CONTINUED.
Somebody with too many keys on a keyboard to pound has typed a book-length Thinker pose claiming Gen X is The Greatest Generation (two clichés within six words, blecch) because it invented G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE and all the other high-tech wonders (for today, we'll agree), but the TWXSTERS get a sort of revenge by linking to an article on "the do-it-yourself generation" that ran "51 Years Ago in Time" in 1954.
P. S. It's 5,743 on Amazon.com. We're not that impressed.
P. S. It's 5,743 on Amazon.com. We're not that impressed.
West, the chart-topper most determined to burn his likeness into the walls of pop's Valhalla, cares deeply about what it means to be a hero. Wednesday, he didn't take a spear to the gut the way Wagner's Siegfried did, but he did confront terror, doubt and filial grief in a show that carried his braggadocio into the realm of myth itself.
TRANSLATION: Neither the news biz nor the Col. have laid off enough.
TRANSLATION: Neither the news biz nor the Col. have laid off enough.
These are the best questions, bar none, asked in a debate this election season....If the ABC game plan was to utterly undermine the “liberal media is giving them a free ride” complaint they succeeded in spades.
Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos turned in shoddy, despicable performances!!!!!!!!!! [Great TV cri-TIC overemphasis added]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos turned in shoddy, despicable performances!!!!!!!!!! [Great TV cri-TIC overemphasis added]
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!
I want to set the record straight. Jeff is an outstanding CEO, and the GE financial model is as attractive as ever. I will endeavor in retirement not to step in it again.
Where's the BIG BUT, LEGENDARY?
While Mr. Immelt’s job seems secure for now....
BUT....
On Wednesday, Welch, who retired in 2001, said he would be "shocked beyond belief" if Chief Executive Jeff Immelt again missed an earnings target. He said he'd "get out a gun and shoot" Immelt if GE missed an earnings target.
Never mind, that BUT is TOO big.
Where's the BIG BUT, LEGENDARY?
While Mr. Immelt’s job seems secure for now....
BUT....
On Wednesday, Welch, who retired in 2001, said he would be "shocked beyond belief" if Chief Executive Jeff Immelt again missed an earnings target. He said he'd "get out a gun and shoot" Immelt if GE missed an earnings target.
Never mind, that BUT is TOO big.
The signing of the "guaranteeed [SIC] completion contracts" signals that SAG's not expecting a quick resolution to the talks.
GOOD!
GOOD!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Newsday stock-swap sale could save Zell $245M
It's official: Col. doesn't have a clue.
(Via MediaBistro)
It's official: Col. doesn't have a clue.
(Via MediaBistro)
A video posted on YouTube showing Philippine doctors laughing while removing an object from a patient may lead to charges against the surgeons and cost them their medical licenses, officials said Wednesday.
Yes, people are that stupid.
Yes, people are that stupid.
VT spokesman respects media more since campus massacre (the usual Romy)
We wonder why.
By the way, look up "nbc news" in Google Images. Yep, you would have guessed.
We wonder why.
By the way, look up "nbc news" in Google Images. Yep, you would have guessed.
And if the Catholic church's all-too-humanness has lost it its speaking voice, so trendiness lost it its singing voice. And we doubt this will get any better; the next pope -- and yes, we must think that -- will most likely come from what academics will screamingly insist NOT be called the third world, and just as the third world is held hostage to fads like liberation theology, so is it more susceptible to GHEEtars.
(Via ArtsJournal)
(Via ArtsJournal)
'Such a Cute Pope'
We aren't one of those face-scrunching church-'n'-staters, but we wonder if Dubya and the Pope didn't embrace a little too -- tight. Then again, he is a Re -- Catholic, and Catholics are a huge constituency, and lots of Catholics are Republicans, so we do understand the touchy-feely.
On the other hand we wonder if making His Holiness into Jes' Folks -- hugging him on the shoulder like a long lost relative, singing "Happy Birthday" to him -- doesn't diminish the man, and his mission. Yes, it is all well-meaning and neighborly. But if the Pope is ordinary, so must be the Church. And the Church has given too much evidence of being very ordinary lately.
We aren't one of those face-scrunching church-'n'-staters, but we wonder if Dubya and the Pope didn't embrace a little too -- tight. Then again, he is a Re -- Catholic, and Catholics are a huge constituency, and lots of Catholics are Republicans, so we do understand the touchy-feely.
On the other hand we wonder if making His Holiness into Jes' Folks -- hugging him on the shoulder like a long lost relative, singing "Happy Birthday" to him -- doesn't diminish the man, and his mission. Yes, it is all well-meaning and neighborly. But if the Pope is ordinary, so must be the Church. And the Church has given too much evidence of being very ordinary lately.
Is John McCain Bob Dole?
Or is he Dwight Eisenhower? (Actually, that may depend on whether Barack Obama is Mike Dukakis or John Kennedy.)
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
Or is he Dwight Eisenhower? (Actually, that may depend on whether Barack Obama is Mike Dukakis or John Kennedy.)
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
That LALA can devote 1,198 words to the last of the "Nine Old Men" says that, however violently they plug the business, news hacks can't hide the fact that they have ever less and less worth plugging.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
AP NEWS ALERT!!!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year.
Ooooh! The HORROR! Oh well, now they can be close to all those BEEB correspondents they forever listen to.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the State Department is warning U.S. diplomats they may be forced to serve in Iraq next year.
Ooooh! The HORROR! Oh well, now they can be close to all those BEEB correspondents they forever listen to.
An emotional J.K. Rowling said on Monday she had stopped working on a new novel because her creativity was stifled by a fan's bid to print an unofficial encyclopedic companion to her Harry Potter series.
We thought it was the DEPRESSION, MS. ROWLINGCORP.
(Via the usual ArtsJournal)
We thought it was the DEPRESSION, MS. ROWLINGCORP.
(Via the usual ArtsJournal)
Eating today at my local lovable Mickey D's and remembering this pioneering TV commercial with THE JUGGLER'S predecessor (the jingles were dorky even then -- notice too the Capitol "Hi-'Q'" music in the open, a relic from Hanna-Barbera; betcha they wouldn't do THAT no more), I remembered the boast Mick made on His Golden Arches -- "Over 500 Million Hamburgers Sold", whatever. But if you want a really outlandish number, total the Mick's sales for the last 25 years -- and then adjust them for inflation. We have no idea what it would be, but we'd guess it's over $1 TRILLION -- proof people are literally gluttons for punishment.
Odd that he's still around after eating all those delicious McDonald's hamburgers.
Now the Mick is staging its own American Idol. Why not have a contest for the next Ronny McD?
Monday, April 14, 2008
It's official -- misery loves companies...again.
Nopw let's do the Surviving Airlines Countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four....
Nopw let's do the Surviving Airlines Countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four....
Absolut�s �Mexico U.S.� Map Angers Many [A BIG FAT NEWSMAX!!!!! SIC!!!!!]
And you must STILL be angry punctuating like that!
Wait a second! Don't they use their question marks upside-down in Mexico?
And you must STILL be angry punctuating like that!
Wait a second! Don't they use their question marks upside-down in Mexico?
'Annie Oakley' changes her tune
Folks are dumb where I come from,
They ain't had any larnin'.
Still they'll always vote for me,
Doin' what comes natur'lly!
Folks are dumb where I come from,
They ain't had any larnin'.
Still they'll always vote for me,
Doin' what comes natur'lly!
Proving once again why he's one of America's all-time-greatest leaders:
WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who played a key role in the U.S. boycott of the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow, isn't joining those who are urging President Bush to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics.
Instead, Mondale called on the U.S. to take an active role in getting the Chinese government to speak with the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet.
WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Walter Mondale, who played a key role in the U.S. boycott of the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow, isn't joining those who are urging President Bush to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics.
Instead, Mondale called on the U.S. to take an active role in getting the Chinese government to speak with the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet.
I've got a brilliant idea, Congressjerks -- let's help the poor people pay for the food prices you helped raise with your BIOFUELS MANIA by giving more financial aid to them?
How 'bout it, SEN. CONSCIENCE ETHANOL?
How 'bout it, SEN. CONSCIENCE ETHANOL?
Chrysler LLC and Nissan Motor Co Ltd unveiled a production alliance on Monday covering small cars and full-size pickup trucks.
Under the terms of the deal, Nissan will build a small car for Chrysler using the North American automaker's design in 2010 and Chrysler will build a new full-sized pickup truck for the Japanese automaker using Nissan's plans in 2011, the companies said.
So -- who will build the better vehicle?
Under the terms of the deal, Nissan will build a small car for Chrysler using the North American automaker's design in 2010 and Chrysler will build a new full-sized pickup truck for the Japanese automaker using Nissan's plans in 2011, the companies said.
So -- who will build the better vehicle?
Here is one reason it is not worth blogging. We've no doubt a whole array of SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS who referred to this photog's GUILT will say nothing. (We will not hold our breath awaiting MICHELLE THE LOUDMOUTH.) We confess to having joined the crowd, too -- it is too easy to join the crowd blogging -- if only because of a longstanding distrust of the hacks and their propensity to turn themselves into martyrs. If the photog was guilty of nothing it shows our government's total incompetence. That they held a member of the press for so long, though totally unjustified, is nonetheless an echo of the P-Ulitzer-Prize-winning end of an UNJUST WAR.
(Via the usual Romy)
(Links fixed 7/4/2008; story originally a Yahoo! News link)
(Via the usual Romy)
(Links fixed 7/4/2008; story originally a Yahoo! News link)
Saturday, April 12, 2008
I finally heard -- the REMARKS our pundit superiors are in such a big foamy airy bubble about. The Messiah starts off all right, if restating the obvious: that much of the Rust Belt has seen little change in decades. Then instead of suggesting a solution He unaccountably goes into the kind of automatic pilot we'd expect of a God Who's done well for Himself, the distillation of what every limousine liberal has thought since the first Rolls, but it never occurs to Him it might be off the mark because He's never talked to an unadmiring crowd before, especially in the mirror, and natch this crowd praised the Lord too. I will not guess whether the remarks do anything good or bad -- this campaign's coverage has been nothing but guesses -- but I will say The Messiah may be one of the most inept public speakers this side of...DUBYA. And he doesn't even have the mitigating charm of non-sequiturs.
Next-door neighbor Scott Alnwick, 17, said, "But I'm not mad. He did what he did [and] I'll be friends with him - just don't rob me."
I don't think you'll have to worry about that for a while.
I don't think you'll have to worry about that for a while.
The finance units at Jeffrey Immelt's conglomerate are running out of tricks. (Subhed of article on home page)
Tricks? The company of LEGENDARY WELCH? PSHAW!
Goldman Sachs analyst Deane Dray, who didn't bump his rating on GE down to "neutral" from "buy" until after the earnings miss Friday...
Give that man a BIG RAISE!
...took Immelt to task for reaffirming guidance in mid-March and failing to deliver.
NO COMMENT.
Tricks? The company of LEGENDARY WELCH? PSHAW!
Goldman Sachs analyst Deane Dray, who didn't bump his rating on GE down to "neutral" from "buy" until after the earnings miss Friday...
Give that man a BIG RAISE!
...took Immelt to task for reaffirming guidance in mid-March and failing to deliver.
NO COMMENT.
SI in His Vanity Fair has run an article proving Doris Day is a recluse. She has also been violently grief-stricken over her film career. Miss Day has known far too much tragedy in her life, so that's understandable at least; but we believe her private suffering is vastly overshadowed by the joy she has brought to people -- indeed how much we'd never have known if she hadn't broken her leg in that auto accident, and not forced herself to become a singer. Clearly the public pluses so monumentally outweigh the private minuses as to make it no contest.
P. S. One of her tragedies was the loss of her beloved Rock Hudson. We recall that well; the hacks tried to turn it into a health panic because Hudson was such a virile, healthy heterosexual. There is one way an earlier rollout of the Web would have done the public some good.
P. S. One of her tragedies was the loss of her beloved Rock Hudson. We recall that well; the hacks tried to turn it into a health panic because Hudson was such a virile, healthy heterosexual. There is one way an earlier rollout of the Web would have done the public some good.
A pioneering notion of RENDELLISM (sorry to use the word three times in one day) was that decommissioned military bases would magically transform themselves into industrial parks, housing developments, tourist destinations, and so on. What's happened to the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro is mostly so on -- nearly nine years after its closure, practically nothing has happened. Well, something might have happened if the local GUVNORS hadn't given the store away to BABBITTS, and if BABBITTS hadn't then given the housing store away. Wouldn't it have been better to sell the ground piecemeal, or just tear up the airstrips and make a nature preserve? We'd guess the few successful conversions have had HUGE inflows of GUVMENT AID anyway.
MORE genius from Hellywood:
MGM [SIC] is getting acquainted with "Bobism," buying Ben Wexler’s comedy spec and setting it up with ContraFilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Adam F. Goldberg.
Story's centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog.
ME! ME!!
(Via CuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
MGM [SIC] is getting acquainted with "Bobism," buying Ben Wexler’s comedy spec and setting it up with ContraFilm's Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson along with Adam F. Goldberg.
Story's centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog.
ME! ME!!
(Via CuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
We must post this in full:
Students Make a Field Trip to a Brothel
What’s a course on American consumption without a class trip to a brothel?
A dozen students in Randolph College’s American Culture Program traveled this week from Lynchburg, Va., also home to the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, to the Chicken Ranch, a desert bordello outside Las Vegas, the Associated Press reported.
Nothing like a field trip from God’s country to Sin City. “It’s fascinating,” Nicki Amouri, a Randolph junior, told the AP. “Not many people get to do this.”
To prepare for their voyage of discovery, the students read The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson. They watched a 20/20 episode on prostitution, which is legal in several counties in Nevada. Then they strode into the “best little whorehouse in the West,” as the business bills itself.
There the students sat to chat with the ladies of the Chicken Ranch. Among the questions: “Do you consider yourself a feminist?” and “Do you still give a military discount?” Yes and yes.
The trip to Nevada originated, the AP reported, in a professor’s interest in water conservation. —Sara Lipka
Sorry for the WALTER WINCHELL JR.!!!!!!!!!!
Trevor Immelman...Brandt Snedeker...Ian Poulter...Steve Flesch...Stephen Ames...Paul Casey...Arron Oberholser....
For the first time in their lives, some CEOs are PRAYING.
No, we did not forget Wrong-Way, who would be where THE GOLFING MACHINE is but for a fluke of fate. And he's exciting too.
For the first time in their lives, some CEOs are PRAYING.
No, we did not forget Wrong-Way, who would be where THE GOLFING MACHINE is but for a fluke of fate. And he's exciting too.
Okay, we don't like seeing cute little bunnies tested either. But if the results don't work, you'd better be prepared to be SUED, PETA.
Why do we think being squooshy toward animal rights and squooshy for Islamists go hand-in-hand?
Why do we think being squooshy toward animal rights and squooshy for Islamists go hand-in-hand?
Well, The Econowiz bylines it Philadelphia, but....
Job growth since 2003 has been 3.2% compared with Ohio's 0.5%. Greater Philadelphia has large concentrations of high-tech companies and business service operations. Even some of the state's grittier areas have been reinventing themselves. Ten times as many Pittsburghers work in the city's hospitals and universities as in the steel industry. Taken as a whole, the state has seen 16.9% growth in employment in education and health services since 2000, and 15% growth in jobs in professional and business services.
So? Here's guessing 90 percent of those jobs have government mixed in. And if I were a Pittsburgher I might not be so proud of that factoid. RENDELLISM may provide good superficial stats, but can it govern? Casinos and ballparks and convention centers and theaters and ever growing health-care and KOLLEDGES say NO.
Job growth since 2003 has been 3.2% compared with Ohio's 0.5%. Greater Philadelphia has large concentrations of high-tech companies and business service operations. Even some of the state's grittier areas have been reinventing themselves. Ten times as many Pittsburghers work in the city's hospitals and universities as in the steel industry. Taken as a whole, the state has seen 16.9% growth in employment in education and health services since 2000, and 15% growth in jobs in professional and business services.
So? Here's guessing 90 percent of those jobs have government mixed in. And if I were a Pittsburgher I might not be so proud of that factoid. RENDELLISM may provide good superficial stats, but can it govern? Casinos and ballparks and convention centers and theaters and ever growing health-care and KOLLEDGES say NO.
Friday, April 11, 2008
IDIOCY: Here in EDDIETOWN!!!!!, hotels are the new condos. They have to be because Babbitts have wasted so much money on condos. At 17th and Sansom someone is reviving a fine old Arte Moderne office tower to the purpose -- and that we can see, as the offices have mahogany paneling and the rooms are too small for offices. At 15th and Locust, however, someone is planning a twenty-plus-story hotel -- right across the street from a white-elephant condo, and also across from an apartment house. With another apartment building on the corner diagonally opposite and another large hulking condo nearby the intersection will be bathed in black on a sunny day, and no one in any of the buildings will have a view - but heck, money is for BURNING!
(Corrected 4/12 at 12:30 p.m.; wrong address for the hotel under renovation.)
(Corrected 4/12 at 12:30 p.m.; wrong address for the hotel under renovation.)
CATASTROPHE! Imagineering and Six-Sigma "unexpectedly" fail GE BANCORP's earnings!
Now we'll really have to promo THE GAMES!
The sharpest drop in segment profit came at the conglomerate’s financial divisions, with commercial finance down 20 per cent and GE Money consumer finance down 19 percent.
Hmmm...maybe being a BANCORP doesn't make THAT much sense.
...the company wasn't able to complete asset sales, due to tighter credit markets....
And maybe doing the AL ROKER with our subsids isn't what it used to be either.
Now we'll really have to promo THE GAMES!
The sharpest drop in segment profit came at the conglomerate’s financial divisions, with commercial finance down 20 per cent and GE Money consumer finance down 19 percent.
Hmmm...maybe being a BANCORP doesn't make THAT much sense.
...the company wasn't able to complete asset sales, due to tighter credit markets....
And maybe doing the AL ROKER with our subsids isn't what it used to be either.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
4 Bulgarians arrested in $2 million ATM thefts
ATM thefts, eBay -- wherever you turn, Bulgarians. Think we should ask why?
Or is that Romania? Romania, Bulgaria -- what's the difference?
ATM thefts, eBay -- wherever you turn, Bulgarians. Think we should ask why?
Or is that Romania? Romania, Bulgaria -- what's the difference?
A police chief attempts to be comforting:
"Millions of people every day travel the freeways of Los Angeles and about 1% of our murders every year happen on the freeways," Bratton said.
One percent of millions is a lot of people, chief. Hell, what are people in LALA?
"Millions of people every day travel the freeways of Los Angeles and about 1% of our murders every year happen on the freeways," Bratton said.
One percent of millions is a lot of people, chief. Hell, what are people in LALA?
The latest from the psychosis that is big business:
American's Passengers Cranky, Investors Confident
We may assume the passengers aren't investors and the investors aren't passengers. Whatever works.
OR:
"We have obviously failed to complete the airworthiness directive to the precise standards that the FAA requires, and I take full responsibility for that," Gerard Arpey, American's chief executive, said at an industry event in California.
And I'll take full responsibility in a year when high fuel prices drive our competitors out of business and we're rolling in dough, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Or something like that.
And from the psychosis that is politics:
"What responsibility does the senior leadership of the FAA bear for letting this situation spiral out of control?" asked Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., of FAA administrator Nick Sabatini. "Is this one of those things like ABU GHRAIB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where you sort of get rid of the people way down low but nobody up top ever has to be accountable?" [Overemphasis added]
Yep, I think ol' Rocky has a customer-service initiative too -- with the guys who win the Pulitzers, and flash the red lights on their cameras. Put Rocky and LIAR LIAR in a room together and you'd never know who told the first lie.
American's Passengers Cranky, Investors Confident
We may assume the passengers aren't investors and the investors aren't passengers. Whatever works.
OR:
"We have obviously failed to complete the airworthiness directive to the precise standards that the FAA requires, and I take full responsibility for that," Gerard Arpey, American's chief executive, said at an industry event in California.
And I'll take full responsibility in a year when high fuel prices drive our competitors out of business and we're rolling in dough, BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Or something like that.
And from the psychosis that is politics:
"What responsibility does the senior leadership of the FAA bear for letting this situation spiral out of control?" asked Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., of FAA administrator Nick Sabatini. "Is this one of those things like ABU GHRAIB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where you sort of get rid of the people way down low but nobody up top ever has to be accountable?" [Overemphasis added]
Yep, I think ol' Rocky has a customer-service initiative too -- with the guys who win the Pulitzers, and flash the red lights on their cameras. Put Rocky and LIAR LIAR in a room together and you'd never know who told the first lie.
Wyler intends to skew the lead role younger, placing Ben-Hur in his mid-20s. New version will also downplay the religious aspects of the source material.
“We want to look at the spirituality within the piece rather than directly relating it to a specific religion,” Wyler said. “It’s a very complex story. It’s been 50 years since my father’s version, and we think we can bring something new and contemporary to it in the same way that ‘Gladiator’ did for that genre.”
TRANSLATION: An agnostic gorefest.
“We want to look at the spirituality within the piece rather than directly relating it to a specific religion,” Wyler said. “It’s a very complex story. It’s been 50 years since my father’s version, and we think we can bring something new and contemporary to it in the same way that ‘Gladiator’ did for that genre.”
TRANSLATION: An agnostic gorefest.
Donors had begun to complain that while the Campaign to Defend America had built a large organization – it has, Brock said, 29 staffers, most devoted to "research," – it had failed to show it could mount a large-scale media campaign....
Brock's words, and his unpaid chairmanship, reflect alarm that Democrats are missing an opportunity to define McCain, even as the presumptive nominee tours the country telling his own story. The plan, conceived last fall, had been for the Fund for America to raise $100 million from wealthy Democrats, and to transfer it to groups including the Campaign to Defend America and America Votes, a Soros-backed independent group aimed a strengthening Democrats' field organizing.
But Fund for America has been unable to raise the money, and Campaign to Defend America had agreed not to raise its own money. Last Thursday, Brock said, he informed an official of the fund that his group would begin directly raising its own funds, a move that puts the usefulness of the Fund for America in question.
TRANSLATION: Actions speak louder than LIES.
P. S. at 12:47 p.m.
I think too often conservatives viewed Brock as simply a traitor — not that there is anything inaccurate about that — but failed to see that his real talent was as a fundraiser and businessman.
Doesn't that make him a TRUE con-SER-va-tive?
Brock's words, and his unpaid chairmanship, reflect alarm that Democrats are missing an opportunity to define McCain, even as the presumptive nominee tours the country telling his own story. The plan, conceived last fall, had been for the Fund for America to raise $100 million from wealthy Democrats, and to transfer it to groups including the Campaign to Defend America and America Votes, a Soros-backed independent group aimed a strengthening Democrats' field organizing.
But Fund for America has been unable to raise the money, and Campaign to Defend America had agreed not to raise its own money. Last Thursday, Brock said, he informed an official of the fund that his group would begin directly raising its own funds, a move that puts the usefulness of the Fund for America in question.
TRANSLATION: Actions speak louder than LIES.
P. S. at 12:47 p.m.
I think too often conservatives viewed Brock as simply a traitor — not that there is anything inaccurate about that — but failed to see that his real talent was as a fundraiser and businessman.
Doesn't that make him a TRUE con-SER-va-tive?
AAUGH! Charlie Brown pulls the football back on LUCY!
One possible new job for Ms. Couric: succeeding Larry King at CNN.
Well, that IS something to look forward to!
(Via MediaBistro)
One possible new job for Ms. Couric: succeeding Larry King at CNN.
Well, that IS something to look forward to!
(Via MediaBistro)
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
This must be the biggest police and armed-thug escort of a sputtering flame in history.
Little Jeffy is smiling.
Little Jeffy is smiling.
Too Many Beer Ads Ran During NCAA Tournament, College Presidents Say
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Oh, and how many DIVISION I BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS signed THE LETTER?
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Oh, and how many DIVISION I BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS signed THE LETTER?
ONE political leader out at the GE BANCORP GAMES' opening -- how many more to go?
Meantime, The Messiah is pondering.
Meantime, The Messiah is pondering.
It would appear that both political parties intend to "solve" the housing bust by seeing who can throw more money out the window.
P. S. SOLVED! Pffffffffft!
P. S. SOLVED! Pffffffffft!