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, January 22, 2011
I have a perfect motto for Corporate America:
BUSINESS IS WAR -- AND THE CUSTOMER IS THE ENEMY.
All the buzzwords in Ad Age reinforce it.
BUSINESS IS WAR -- AND THE CUSTOMER IS THE ENEMY.
All the buzzwords in Ad Age reinforce it.
Intel has just introduced a whole wave of chips with integrated GPUs, so count on Barron'S to sell nVidia. (Or Nividia, as it puts it -- although to be sure even we don't know how it's spelled or capitalized anymore.) Most people will NOT supercharge their graphics, and for what most people do with their computers they wouldn't know the difference; we read someplace it's hard to tell it above 60 fps. Besides, aren't the masses going to IPADS!!!!!? Regardless, we spend too much on computers as is. I should not be surprised if this is another brilliant prediction!
MENSA MAN! and THE ORIGINAL TV NEWSER! say the CONCASTERS kicked the truth-telling KEITH O out because he was ON OUR SIDE!!!!! It would have "looked bad" either way, and as befits a paper that can't go behind A WALL soon enough it's looking for excuses -- though it does look bad as a hyperventilating clown like THE REV. DR. BECK still has HIS job. As we said last night, the bloviator will be back, and sooner than we may wish.
And BRIAN ROBBER will throw His weight around regardless of who TELLS THE TRUTH on the MESS.
(Via TheCuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
And BRIAN ROBBER will throw His weight around regardless of who TELLS THE TRUTH on the MESS.
(Via TheCuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
Friday, January 21, 2011
Methinks the CONCASTERS told Very Little Jeffy's job creators they didn't want all that screaming.
We have not heard the last of this loudmouth bellowing.
P. S. Regardless of their denials.
P. P. S. Kositis sufferers aside, that would seem to put some of the onus on THEM TOO.
We have not heard the last of this loudmouth bellowing.
P. S. Regardless of their denials.
P. P. S. Kositis sufferers aside, that would seem to put some of the onus on THEM TOO.
"Keep your head up, where it needs to be. Keep looking forward because that's where you're going."
We can never hope to improve on such a simple but profound statement, except through our prayers.
We can never hope to improve on such a simple but profound statement, except through our prayers.
KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!
GEN. BEWKES is marching for Georgia. Or Moscow. Or maybe He's part of the death march of Bataan. But He IS MARCHING ON. Though His army be plagued with defectors -- AOL, PEOPLE WARNER CABLE, unprofitable magazines -- He and the stragglers left of it, braving the elements in nothing but their expensive Italian suits, treading on weary feet cushioned only by Guccis, with no solace but the rallying cry of billions and zillions, headed toward the day when they can scalp every last customer of every last dime for the BRILLIANT AMAZING programming and movies His corps distributes to sullen peons at rest stops. The world NEEDS GEN. BEWKES' army; it needs these solemn warriors, fighting on for the name of the higher calling of CRITICAL ACCLAIM, ready to BOMB their way if necessary to TOTAL VICTORY until no one is left but these forces of right, surrounded by the burnt hulks of enemy companies and the dead bodies of MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS -- but at last...TRIUMPHANT!
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD to LT. COL. BRADY and CPL. RABIL!
The hack Dana Milbank's addicted to SARAH!!!!!!!!!!
We wonder if this addiction of so many hacks may have led to the borderline psychosis known as Kositis.
We wonder if this addiction of so many hacks may have led to the borderline psychosis known as Kositis.
A juxtaposition from ASSPress:
● Nevada jobless rate hits new high in December
● Obama seeks to highlight nation's econ potential
● Nevada jobless rate hits new high in December
● Obama seeks to highlight nation's econ potential
The MO of modern internationalism is to let things slide and hope for the best. Hence the indifference to East African piracy. South Korea's bold rescue says it's time for the world to wake up.
ONN's bigger problem may be that cable networks — earnest as they can be when grave news breaks — already use the rhythms and devices of comedy.
TRANSLATION: Cable news is comedy.
Shouldn'ta said that Jamie -- JAMES. Where's your SYNERGY?
TRANSLATION: Cable news is comedy.
Shouldn'ta said that Jamie -- JAMES. Where's your SYNERGY?
We wonder when liberals and news hacks start making fun of Republicans for being budget-obsessed, but the fact this piece ends thus:
[C]onservative House newcomer Mick Mulvaney from South Carolina was nonplussed. “Anybody who is up to speed on budget issues should be scared to death by what’s happening with the debt and the deficit in this country," he said. "If you’re not losing sleep over it, then you’re simply not paying attention.”
...instead of with patented SUPERADAM!!!!! SNARK!!!!! indicates at least a slight advance.
[C]onservative House newcomer Mick Mulvaney from South Carolina was nonplussed. “Anybody who is up to speed on budget issues should be scared to death by what’s happening with the debt and the deficit in this country," he said. "If you’re not losing sleep over it, then you’re simply not paying attention.”
...instead of with patented SUPERADAM!!!!! SNARK!!!!! indicates at least a slight advance.
The TWXSTERS devise an excuse:
Gosnell's techniques — using untrained staff, operating the business day and night, not maintaining equipment and not keep up with modern medical techniques (using Demerol is frowned upon these days) — are typical of those in any business trying to cut corners to keep costs low. It's likely that he was the cheapest abortion provider around in a community that's not accustomed to the highest health-care standards anyway.
We'd guess a great many abortions, sad to say, happen in "cheap" neighborhoods.
While this does not quite approach the exalted standard of GUNS CAUSED COLUMBINE!!!!!, it's in that cheap neighborhood.
Gosnell's techniques — using untrained staff, operating the business day and night, not maintaining equipment and not keep up with modern medical techniques (using Demerol is frowned upon these days) — are typical of those in any business trying to cut corners to keep costs low. It's likely that he was the cheapest abortion provider around in a community that's not accustomed to the highest health-care standards anyway.
We'd guess a great many abortions, sad to say, happen in "cheap" neighborhoods.
While this does not quite approach the exalted standard of GUNS CAUSED COLUMBINE!!!!!, it's in that cheap neighborhood.
Speaking of gas, someone blogs in FORBESLISTBLOG what Bill Daley should do as His Omnipotence's CEO. It's so vague Very Littler Jeffy could have had it ghosted. We do not like wasting our time with the Web's chimeras.
George Bradt is managing director of PrimeGenesis, a consultancy focused on transition acceleration and executive onboarding. He is the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan(Wiley, 2009). [sic]
Yep, George is looking for work.
George Bradt is managing director of PrimeGenesis, a consultancy focused on transition acceleration and executive onboarding. He is the author of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan(Wiley, 2009). [sic]
Yep, George is looking for work.
Hey Very Littler Jeffy! If you can do for America what you did for GE BANCORP's stock price....
Okay Littler, we need more jobs, and more manufacturing jobs. How can we get them? By setting up CEO conferences that expel vast quantities of gas?
Remember when someone likened Congress to high school? This is a student council!
Okay Littler, we need more jobs, and more manufacturing jobs. How can we get them? By setting up CEO conferences that expel vast quantities of gas?
Remember when someone likened Congress to high school? This is a student council!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
KAN-PAI!!!!!
America's CEOs were so busy stampeding over one another to greet China's God Coca-Cola's boss kneeled before Him and uttered a prayer in the wrong language.
Chinese, Japanese, it's all one to us -- we're their inferiors.
While China and Japan have close economic ties, the two countries fought a war from 1937-45 which saw large portions of China occupied and millions killed.
"I'd like to teach the world to sing...."
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
Chinese President Hu Jintao, shown here with his adviser and confidante Dr. Henry A. Kissinger....
We would NOT be surprised.
Hey Hank? Is somebody looking for a co-producer?
This is a definition of he may be an SOB but when he gets me entrée into the White House and China he's MY SOB.
We'd not heard of F5 Networks until yesterday, but given it's in CLOUD COMPUTING (roll the eyes), and given the shellacking it's taking today, we wonder how much of our current KUDLOVIAN PROSPERITY, like the prosperity of certain Web sites, floats on a blast of hot air.
Especially after such a TINY miss!
CNBC announced that CEO McAdam will be interviewed today which generally results in a pop in the price of the stock of a company during and, often, after the interview. This seems to be especially true after a beating by the Street.
1. CNBC is FULL OF IT. 2. No interview yet, apparently.
Especially after such a TINY miss!
CNBC announced that CEO McAdam will be interviewed today which generally results in a pop in the price of the stock of a company during and, often, after the interview. This seems to be especially true after a beating by the Street.
1. CNBC is FULL OF IT. 2. No interview yet, apparently.
HENRY HONEST!!!!! has raised a big stink over HOWIE HAIRSHIRT's salary, and TINA!!!!! insists he isn't making $600,000 a year. Problem is, we believe it. If anything, we believe it could be low. We believe it because TINA!!!!! and HUFF 'n' PUFF are making the same mistake as other BIGMEDIA: They think by paying huge and unjustified salaries to name-brand talent they "build" their "BRANDS". To the public the brand names are more like Brand X. And HOWIE was a figure of the most malicious fun long before he left The Daily Kaplan. We can't vouch for the other names but plainly any BLOG that can relocate to a hot, sexy building named for a toy company (!) in a hot, sexy Manhattan neighborhood has VC money to spend. Once more we learn few things are more opaque than brand-name Web sites' finances. This gravy train can't choo-choo forever.
Con-SER-va-tives are now safely back to being con-SER-va-tives, as witness this quote from one of EM's gang from AL GREENSPAN'S MENTOR:
" [SIC] In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic "what your country can do for you" implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man's belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, "what you can do for your 'country" implies the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
TRANSLATION: Ask not what your country can do for you -- unless you're a CEO.
P. S.
Bernanke is following a monetarist depression-prevention model laid out by Nobel laureate and libertarian patron saint Milton Friedman. The Fed chairman has invoked the late economist in support of lowering interest rates to zero and bailing out banks. Trillions of dollars have been staked on the insights of “monetarism,” the economic theory of central banking and inflation-management associated with Friedman and Anna Schwartz. Though Schwartz now distances herself from Bernanke, opposing his reappointment on the grounds that he’s gone too far, the irony remains that a series of Fed policies many libertarians find repugnant are being championed by a man claiming to take his chief inspiration from the most influential libertarian economist of the 20th century.
Seeing how this is REASON!!!!!.com -- NUF SAID.
P. S. at 10:20 a. m.
Do yourself a favor today and set aside a few minutes to read one of the most beautifully crafted speeches in American history.
Obviously not every conservative is an uncritical fan of Uncle Milty.
" [SIC] In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic "what your country can do for you" implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man's belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, "what you can do for your 'country" implies the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.
TRANSLATION: Ask not what your country can do for you -- unless you're a CEO.
P. S.
Bernanke is following a monetarist depression-prevention model laid out by Nobel laureate and libertarian patron saint Milton Friedman. The Fed chairman has invoked the late economist in support of lowering interest rates to zero and bailing out banks. Trillions of dollars have been staked on the insights of “monetarism,” the economic theory of central banking and inflation-management associated with Friedman and Anna Schwartz. Though Schwartz now distances herself from Bernanke, opposing his reappointment on the grounds that he’s gone too far, the irony remains that a series of Fed policies many libertarians find repugnant are being championed by a man claiming to take his chief inspiration from the most influential libertarian economist of the 20th century.
Seeing how this is REASON!!!!!.com -- NUF SAID.
P. S. at 10:20 a. m.
Do yourself a favor today and set aside a few minutes to read one of the most beautifully crafted speeches in American history.
Obviously not every conservative is an uncritical fan of Uncle Milty.
GOP pundits to Palin: If you're running for president, be more presidential
That's like asking a snake to hiss less.
That's like asking a snake to hiss less.
And the TV audience -- TV writers and SUMNERS notwithstanding -- will not watch reheated beauty pageants, or most anything else they think it would, and thus may be smarter than most would think. Given what we're told here it took to get ESPNCORP Network to air this one -- no royalties, a slot in the Saturday dead zone, where it once aired in Septembers -- and given it was down a third from its last time on a network, this pancake is still a pancake. "[N]umbers for just about everything but football have fallen since then, so the decline is no surprise." So why do TV writers always act as though the ratings for everything are going up?
TRANSLATION: SUMNER issued an order to THE ORIGINAL TV NEWSER!!!!! to plug this show.
If He didn't it shows for all time JACK'S SECRET-RECIPE BOTULISM BROTH is useless.
We'll assume Original was glad to do a favor for SUM, therefore A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO ORIGINAL!!!!!
(Via Media Bistro via THR.com. I guess lots of people know a good plug when they see one!)
If He didn't it shows for all time JACK'S SECRET-RECIPE BOTULISM BROTH is useless.
We'll assume Original was glad to do a favor for SUM, therefore A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO ORIGINAL!!!!!
(Via Media Bistro via THR.com. I guess lots of people know a good plug when they see one!)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
When do con-SER-va-tives start saying those who think "Football is brain damage" are JJJJJJEAN KERRRRRRIAN WUSSIES who'd crumple to the ground if a feather hit them?
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!!!!!
Oh wait, maybe He wouldn't defend it. GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!!!!!
Oh wait, maybe He wouldn't defend it. GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
It should be interesting to know how many of the SARAH-PULLED-THE-TRIGGER!!!!! crowd have avoided this hideous story. We would like to think it could set back the PRO-CHOICE!!!!! movement permanently. When pro-lifers speak of abortion as murder, it will not be so much a mere rhetorical flourish anymore.
Seeking to build ties with an economic rival, the White House said Wednesday that China would purchase $45 billion in U.S. exports, including a highly sought-after $19 billion deal for 200 Boeing airplanes.
Who wants to bet this isn't some sort of backdoor subsidy to help the Chinese create their own commercial aircraft business?
P. S. at 7:25 p. m.
The orders were already in the Boeing commercial backlog....
The Chinese were going to buy them anyway! This is paperwork on the way to a new competitor in aircraft!
P. P. S. August 31, 2009:
Stan Sorscher, who spent 20 years at Boeing before taking a post at the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) in 2000, told me that engineers he spoke with believe that McNerney is hooked on the idea of shifting more of Boeing's aircraft development to China.
Sorscher told me that McNerney recently hosted a meeting with a group of engineers to discuss how Boeing should build its next aircraft. The conclusion of the meeting was that McNerney is comfortable with the way the 787 was developed but thinks it could use a bit of tweaking -- and he'd like to shift more of the design and manufacturing of future Boeing aircraft to China.
This would leave Boeing as a systems integrator which outsources product development to China and other countries.
TRANSLATION: BOEING IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY.
Who wants to bet this isn't some sort of backdoor subsidy to help the Chinese create their own commercial aircraft business?
P. S. at 7:25 p. m.
The orders were already in the Boeing commercial backlog....
The Chinese were going to buy them anyway! This is paperwork on the way to a new competitor in aircraft!
P. P. S. August 31, 2009:
Stan Sorscher, who spent 20 years at Boeing before taking a post at the Society of Professional Engineers in Aerospace (SPEEA) in 2000, told me that engineers he spoke with believe that McNerney is hooked on the idea of shifting more of Boeing's aircraft development to China.
Sorscher told me that McNerney recently hosted a meeting with a group of engineers to discuss how Boeing should build its next aircraft. The conclusion of the meeting was that McNerney is comfortable with the way the 787 was developed but thinks it could use a bit of tweaking -- and he'd like to shift more of the design and manufacturing of future Boeing aircraft to China.
This would leave Boeing as a systems integrator which outsources product development to China and other countries.
TRANSLATION: BOEING IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY.
I am willing to correct myself on SARAH!!!!!. Apparently she did write her latest book by herself, so it was unfair at least to say "she didn't know what a word was." Our perception was colored by the regiments of ghostwriters who've trooped across DC, writing memoirs never to be read again. The problem, then, lies with her demeanor. Imagine SARAH!!!!! as warm-hearted and fuzzy as, say...Barbara Bush. Imagine a lovable female conservative. SARAH!!!!!'s problem is The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther BECK!!!!!'s, defined by the solid conservative Charles Murray:
Beck is spectacularly right (translation: I agree with him) on about 95 percent of the substantive issues he talks about. He is a full-throated libertarian in a world of wishy-washy Republicans. The man is a gifted communicator....
But Beck uses tactics that include tiny snippets of film as proof of a person’s worldview, guilt by association, insinuation, and occasionally outright goofs like the fake quote. To put it another way, I as a viewer have no way to judge whether Beck is right. I have to trust that the snippets are not taken out of context, that the dubious association between A and B actually has evidence to support it, and that his numbers are accurate. It is impossible to have that trust.
In short, because SARAH'S character is so outlandish, and so much of what she does seems designed solely to attract attention (like PILLHEAD), one can't believe her. If I took the time I might find things to admire. But face it, she was introduced to us as a gimmick, and her airhead persona was confirmed by the manic antics of her family.
Yes, the recent criticism was a blatant dishonest partisan gag. Had SARAH!!!! not put publicity and her personality first, had she not acted like the kind of cartoon star too prevalent among our superiors, she could have spared us considerable agony. SARAH!!!!!'s problem was foreseen by THE MASTER: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." He may be SEXIST!!!!! but with SARAH!!!!! he may also be right.
Beck is spectacularly right (translation: I agree with him) on about 95 percent of the substantive issues he talks about. He is a full-throated libertarian in a world of wishy-washy Republicans. The man is a gifted communicator....
But Beck uses tactics that include tiny snippets of film as proof of a person’s worldview, guilt by association, insinuation, and occasionally outright goofs like the fake quote. To put it another way, I as a viewer have no way to judge whether Beck is right. I have to trust that the snippets are not taken out of context, that the dubious association between A and B actually has evidence to support it, and that his numbers are accurate. It is impossible to have that trust.
In short, because SARAH'S character is so outlandish, and so much of what she does seems designed solely to attract attention (like PILLHEAD), one can't believe her. If I took the time I might find things to admire. But face it, she was introduced to us as a gimmick, and her airhead persona was confirmed by the manic antics of her family.
Yes, the recent criticism was a blatant dishonest partisan gag. Had SARAH!!!! not put publicity and her personality first, had she not acted like the kind of cartoon star too prevalent among our superiors, she could have spared us considerable agony. SARAH!!!!!'s problem was foreseen by THE MASTER: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." He may be SEXIST!!!!! but with SARAH!!!!! he may also be right.
"These ceremonies have taken over our social life. Almost every week we get into our formal gear, push through a gauntlet of paparazzi to get to some ballroom, give ourselves awards for everything from movies to lifetime achievements, and then applaud ourselves."
That's what friends are for!
That's what friends are for!
See, if Your name's Lloyd Blankfein You think yourself the supersmartest most omnipotentest person who ever roamed sixty universes, but judging how He screwed up the Facebook business and now with this UNEXPECTED loss perhaps this God should pray for the first time in His life.
Well, there was surveillance video as we should have expected, and The Daily Kaplan gives the FBI a frown for not releasing it. If we had any say we'd keep it in the courtroom, but some First Amendment defender will no doubt leak it, and news hacks everywhere will be happy making their turnips miserable again.
P. S. at 3:40 p. m. Nor should the Feds release it. In the public eye it can only become a glorified snuff video, as with the death of the sadly forgotten Iranian heroine Neda.
P. S. at 3:40 p. m. Nor should the Feds release it. In the public eye it can only become a glorified snuff video, as with the death of the sadly forgotten Iranian heroine Neda.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Con-SER-va-tives will say Sen. Morals and Sen. Conrad can read maps. I say, they're retiring now in part because they may have served at least twelve years too many, like most in the august Senile chamber.
Speaking of millionaires, Gov. Christie succeeded in protecting them from the unspeakable horror of a tax increase last year. But his "sharing the sacrifice" budget slashed aid for cities including Camden, forcing it to cut services. Hence, several hundred layoffs are to take effect Tuesday.
1. A news hack throwing a tantrum. 2. The expression of a con-SER-va-tive dream.
1. A news hack throwing a tantrum. 2. The expression of a con-SER-va-tive dream.
In US-China talks, who has the upper hand?
GUESS who!
As economies in the U.S. and Europe continue to reel, a fast-growing China is on the offensive. But the fallout is the slow-drip loss of what little political support the Chinese government has left in Washington. "They are losing friends," says former U.S. Trade Ambassador Susan Schwab.
You mean even their whores in the Beltway have turned against them?
(Via Seeking Alpha)
GUESS who!
As economies in the U.S. and Europe continue to reel, a fast-growing China is on the offensive. But the fallout is the slow-drip loss of what little political support the Chinese government has left in Washington. "They are losing friends," says former U.S. Trade Ambassador Susan Schwab.
You mean even their whores in the Beltway have turned against them?
(Via Seeking Alpha)
TNR needn't remind us The Lord Goddess Oprah and LARRY KING!!!!! are AWFUL interviewers, but our one hope is now they are leaving the scene, and there's reason to suspect their successors will have smaller audiences.
Super Bowl Ad Creep Gave Viewers Nearly 48 Minutes of Commercials Last Year
1. Another reason for CEOs to say, "I WAS AT THE SUPER BOWL AND YOU WEREN'T!!!!!" 2. Another reason for the GANNETTOIDS to plug their SUPER BOWL AD METER!
1. Another reason for CEOs to say, "I WAS AT THE SUPER BOWL AND YOU WEREN'T!!!!!" 2. Another reason for the GANNETTOIDS to plug their SUPER BOWL AD METER!
If Jobs is looking to go out on a high note, this would be a pretty good time to do it.
TRANSLATION: Where can you go from the top?
And seeing he writes for Grate.com Farhad may not realize what he wrote.
TRANSLATION: Where can you go from the top?
And seeing he writes for Grate.com Farhad may not realize what he wrote.
"ICE is not the police of the Internet."
Hey, there's an idea, Der Homeland -- an Internet Police Force!
Hey, there's an idea, Der Homeland -- an Internet Police Force!
Quit your carping, America's Sister. That thing with legs gave your career in celebrity rags legs.
P. S. at 1:45 p. m.
"I should have been a party planner," the Just Go with It star says. "I'm a good mixologist in terms of personality types. I do a tree trimming party every year – 15 years I've been doing this. At my tree-trimming party we always do chili: turkey, regular beef, and vegetarian. Everybody is satisfied."
If America's Sister didn't exist PEOPLE WARNER would have to invent her.
P. S. at 1:45 p. m.
"I should have been a party planner," the Just Go with It star says. "I'm a good mixologist in terms of personality types. I do a tree trimming party every year – 15 years I've been doing this. At my tree-trimming party we always do chili: turkey, regular beef, and vegetarian. Everybody is satisfied."
If America's Sister didn't exist PEOPLE WARNER would have to invent her.
We need a book to learn many KOLLEDGE students don't learn anything -- and worse, that they aren't challenged to learn anything?
Students majoring in liberal arts fields see "significantly higher gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills over time than students in other fields of study." Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the smallest gains. (The authors note that this could be more a reflection of more-demanding reading and writing assignments, on average, in the liberal arts courses than of the substance of the material.)
We might challenge that liberal-arts assertion but we can definitely see the other.
Students majoring in liberal arts fields see "significantly higher gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills over time than students in other fields of study." Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the smallest gains. (The authors note that this could be more a reflection of more-demanding reading and writing assignments, on average, in the liberal arts courses than of the substance of the material.)
We might challenge that liberal-arts assertion but we can definitely see the other.
One would like to think this venture-cap pyre of money marks a coming market top, but the dot-com boom demonstrated there's never enough money to burn.
Then again we thought Huff 'n' Puff was a joke. It may yet be depending on its financials.
(Via CuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
Then again we thought Huff 'n' Puff was a joke. It may yet be depending on its financials.
(Via CuteLittlePinkPaper.com)
Cheney says he is considering heart transplant
Hey "TRIGGER" KOS! Why don't you stage a nationwide protest to prevent this FORCE OF EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL from getting one? Or something.
Gotta fire up the soldiers in this newly civil world!
Hey "TRIGGER" KOS! Why don't you stage a nationwide protest to prevent this FORCE OF EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL from getting one? Or something.
Gotta fire up the soldiers in this newly civil world!
We would not have done what this Danish cartoonist did -- for starters, it isn't right. But we do hope the creators of MS. TRAVERS'S FAVORITE SHOW eventually restate their hypocrisy by again letting others do what they don't have the minimal guts to do.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Two more historical old-wives' tales to toss into the fire:
1. Ordinary German citizens were not involved in the Holocaust.
2. Rigoberta Menchu was a hero.
(Caveat on the second: WIKILEAKS!!!!!)
1. Ordinary German citizens were not involved in the Holocaust.
2. Rigoberta Menchu was a hero.
(Caveat on the second: WIKILEAKS!!!!!)
Haiti advanced not one iota between 1986 and the earthquake, after which it took several decisive steps backwards, so no one should be surprised the thug Baby Doc is back.
ARCHDaily!
House In Kodaira / Suppose Design Office
Suppose...a big wind comes up? Does the building sail away?
House In Kodaira / Suppose Design Office
Suppose...a big wind comes up? Does the building sail away?
See, if you've got a GANG OF 27, this is PRECISELY what you should use it for: stupid celebrity puffing that sedates the masses. The GANNETTOIDS must abandon what little sense they have and officially make USAOKAY!!!!! AMERICA'S PR MACHINE, where it is now unofficial. Ditch ALL pretense of covering serious news and focus on things that'll make you the BIG PROFIT! and give US the big headache. Make it America's version of The Daily Mail, only far more strident. This is why news hacks get on our nerves: they're for what they say they're against.
No! NO!! GOD IS SICK AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notice how He timed the news for a day the markets weren't trading -- here? (It didn't work that well, God.)
We're not wishing ill for Him but given the way He runs His firm, using millions of slaves at FOXCONN, we are not THAT sympathetic either.
Notice how He timed the news for a day the markets weren't trading -- here? (It didn't work that well, God.)
We're not wishing ill for Him but given the way He runs His firm, using millions of slaves at FOXCONN, we are not THAT sympathetic either.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:
1. Your tax dollars at work -- making a TV show! Well maybe not SO many, since GM IS PROFITABLE!!!!!, but it's still irksome. The only difference between this and an infomercial is a plot line. Perhaps cable viewers are nearly as gullible as advertisers but we suspect even they might be put off by a glorified hour-long sales pitch. If this is how PEPE LE PEW BEWKES thinks he can help bolster TV he should go into radio.
2. The movee extruders already waste enough money on "marketing", so what's a few more bucks on unneeded trade print ads for potential Os-CAR® nominees? TRANSLATION: These are VANITY ads for spendthrift producers to stare at like their mirrors.
3. Speaking of spendthrifts, the people who burn OUR money on SLIME are having a big party for His new iPad-only production! But there's just one problem, as even a CRAINIAC must admit:
The question for The Daily is whether the content will be different and unique enough to warrant paying for -- and if enough people take the time to tell the difference. But because its content won't be indexed on the web and Google isn't -- yet -- indexing in-app content, it won't be easy to stumble upon content from The Daily.
Well He can always run promos on the Web site of that newspaper He destroyed. His acolytes can get free access in their limos.
1. Your tax dollars at work -- making a TV show! Well maybe not SO many, since GM IS PROFITABLE!!!!!, but it's still irksome. The only difference between this and an infomercial is a plot line. Perhaps cable viewers are nearly as gullible as advertisers but we suspect even they might be put off by a glorified hour-long sales pitch. If this is how PEPE LE PEW BEWKES thinks he can help bolster TV he should go into radio.
2. The movee extruders already waste enough money on "marketing", so what's a few more bucks on unneeded trade print ads for potential Os-CAR® nominees? TRANSLATION: These are VANITY ads for spendthrift producers to stare at like their mirrors.
3. Speaking of spendthrifts, the people who burn OUR money on SLIME are having a big party for His new iPad-only production! But there's just one problem, as even a CRAINIAC must admit:
The question for The Daily is whether the content will be different and unique enough to warrant paying for -- and if enough people take the time to tell the difference. But because its content won't be indexed on the web and Google isn't -- yet -- indexing in-app content, it won't be easy to stumble upon content from The Daily.
Well He can always run promos on the Web site of that newspaper He destroyed. His acolytes can get free access in their limos.
The Golden Globs organizers can't lose. No one outside the biz takes them seriously, so no one takes the payola story seriously, even if it's from a former Globs publicist; and what's good for show-biz is good for America, which is very good for the news biz, however bad the Golden Globs.
Shucks! They could've been .500!
We're NOT mocking the Seahawks -- they did win a playoff game -- but given that we wonder whether the best playoff teams are the best teams.
We're NOT mocking the Seahawks -- they did win a playoff game -- but given that we wonder whether the best playoff teams are the best teams.
There are two hideous ways of looking at this. The first is since it comes from SARAH!!!!!'s camp this is a public expression of SARAH!!!!! feeling sorry for herself. The second is the KOSES who believed SHE PULLED THE TRIGGER would smugly argue TURNABOUT'S FAIR PLAY. Our only answer to both sides is that none of you screamers has BULLETPROOF SKIN.
Speaking of:
Kraft Says It Faces `Irreparable Harm' If Starbucks Ends Distribution Deal
This is exasperating too. Kraft wastes far more money on junk television than it would lose. Perhaps the apt question is how much irreparable harm do Kraft's junk foods inflict on the public.
Kraft Says It Faces `Irreparable Harm' If Starbucks Ends Distribution Deal
This is exasperating too. Kraft wastes far more money on junk television than it would lose. Perhaps the apt question is how much irreparable harm do Kraft's junk foods inflict on the public.
No concern has opened its big fat trap for "family programming" more than Johnson and Johnson. It is therefore apt that it has run into deadly problems with its reputation. Twenty-eight years ago we grieved for the company over Tylenol, a calamity never its fault; its comeback was a shining example to America. MTV was a year old then, and J&J has since become one of its biggest sugar daddies, and it opens its yap for "family programming" so it can support MTV. Under the circumstances we do not feel sorry for the company, only for those of its employees who are blameless.
It must persuade millions of disappointed customers to once again pay a premium for products that may no longer seem to be of any higher quality than the less expensive store brand.
Given its profound QC woes we can suggest without fear of contradiction most of the premium goes to pay for MTVs -- and the public instinctively knows it, and won't be badgered into rooting for it.
It must persuade millions of disappointed customers to once again pay a premium for products that may no longer seem to be of any higher quality than the less expensive store brand.
Given its profound QC woes we can suggest without fear of contradiction most of the premium goes to pay for MTVs -- and the public instinctively knows it, and won't be badgered into rooting for it.
Do we take actions like this at face value or do we get angry because they're meaningless and a prelude to more screaming? Our mind says to be angry but our heart urges peace, even if this is but a symbol, and meaningless.