Posted 7:31 PM by Gene

THE LATEST FROM THE CRUSADING PERFESSER-BLOGGER!!!!!:

June 4, 2011

MARKDOWNS ON Duracell batteries.

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 7:00 pm

Apparently the JACKASS is a paid shill for Amazon.com and other organizations and does not even bother to slug such posts ADS. This is why I do NOT believe bloggers.

I'm mad too because he's part of the PAJAMAS MEDIA clique, which got its name from pursuing Dan Blather's FONTS. Sorry Glenn, this isn't 100% ethical either. And sorry too, Glenn, that "Amazon.com affiliate" business way way down the right-hand column doesn't excuse it -- especially when you've run an unpaid ad like THIS.

(Revised 7/31/2011; it read "lastest" for "latest")

Posted 12:43 PM by Gene

Lawrence Eagleburger, who along with Brent Scowcroft kissed the Chinese Communists' shoes after Tienanmen, has died. RIP.

P. S. at 3:02 p. m. And on the 22ND ANNIVERSARY. HOW APT.

Posted 11:32 AM by Gene

I guess we all know the story of Yvette Vickers -- the gorgeous model who posed before a...hi-fi, who starred in a few awful B sci-fi flicks, whose "mummified" remains were found after months in her house. As this haunting dispatch tells us likely no one would have attended her funeral but for a somewhat forgotten half-brother, who brought his family. Perhaps she could have been like that annoying -- well, you know, a certain hyperactive octogenarian TV PERSONALITY -- and made an ass of herself, but instead she just faded away, and too well. The tides of life are beyond our meager abilities but we're sure she didn't deserve this. On the other hand we gather hope that the pestilences of our time will soon fade away, and one thing's clear: they never knew Cary Grant -- and they won't engender a love note in our hearts.

Posted 8:20 AM by Gene

Sony Pictures Pays Big Bucks To Buy 'Sex Tape'

Hey Lord Stringer, maybe you'd be better off distributing it through LULZSEC.

Posted 8:05 AM by Gene

How often have Michigan's leaders uttered platitudes to "help" Detroit? Before they didn't want to get involved; now that NoMoTown is dying they want to help. And they haven't been feeling too well either. Help with what? Of course we hope it comes back -- if the old American spirit still obtained it could -- but it's going to take overwhelming leadership and mighty strong bootstraps.

Posted 8:00 AM by Gene

This is going nowhere. The first two names in the hed make it a joke. Hollywood charities are never separate from that overwhelming ulterior publicity motive; too often they're an excuse to get other people to give on celebrities' behalf. If show-biz types want to give more to charity, great. We don't expect them to.

Posted 7:59 PM by Gene

Once TV viewers could identify with the people on the screen, and believe them. James Arness had integrity enough to last in such a role for twenty years. Now the only people with such faith in TV are advertising vice-presidents, and they've driven the Arnesses clean out of the medium in favor of their heroes, the scummy SUMNERS.

Posted 7:48 PM by Gene

We cannot say how exasperated we are to have to comb through five thousand Web sites to get three insights -- and this one came from John Dudley in, of all places, Erie, Pennsylvania:

South Carolina's Steve Spurrier weighed in Thursday, saying he is willing to fork over $294,000 of his own salary to pay players $300 per game, a proposal that will be received by the good ol' boys at NCAA headquarters like a fart in church.

On the surface, it doesn't seem so unreasonable for someone, perhaps even a rich coach like Spurrier, to feel obligated to cough up some loot for the folks who do the actual heavy lifting on Saturday afternoons.

But it doesn't make it right.

And it doesn't solve the problem.

In fact, paying college football players would open a new set of issues that no one, least of all the NCAA, is prepared to face.

Next in line would be men's basketball players, whose annual March Madness tournament is worth $10.8 billion in TV money to the NCAA and its member schools over the next 14 years.

If Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck is getting $300 per game to toss footballs 12 or 13 times a season, what's the going rate for Nolan Smith to lace it up 37 times for Duke?

Or for the backup setter on Pepperdine's men's volleyball team?

Are we proposing to pay athletes only in revenue sports?

Only men?

Because you wouldn't have to wait long for the stampede of lawyers rushing to file Title IX-based lawsuits if female student-athletes aren't compensated, too. And who could argue with them?...

Paying the athletes wouldn't be enough to satisfy the most gluttonous offenders in college sports. It would merely be an appetizer.

Posted 7:25 PM by Gene

We'll believe The Paper of Re-CORD when It says Its editing of a story on Its new PRINCESS was above board -- but we'll also believe NRO when it says the new PRINCESS and Her charges think of Their Paper as a RELIGION.

Posted 6:54 PM by Gene

MTV Movie Awards to promo more movies

Hey guys! With "Adidas, Chevrolet, Snickers, Sprint, Starbucks, State Farm, Taco Bell, Twix", ESPNCORP, PEOPLE WARNER, SUMNER PICTURES and TROUGH -- pardon, SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT the whole show's a promo!

The network and its advertisers, though, are hoping for better ratings than last year, when the awards show was down 13% in total viewers on MTV and 2% after additional airings on VH1 and MTV2 were factored in.

Why should they worry? If the show drew no audience the sponsors would double their spending!

Increased activity from Disney, which is plugging three movies through paid ads and talent appearances, and Warner, which is promoting four, mean this year's awards and red carpet involve more studios and more films than in the past, according to Jeannie Scalzo, MTV's senior vice president of integrated marketing.

"We have never-before-seen clips for some films, and can take advantage of talent walking the red carpet that's done for the most part separate from any ad sales deal," Ms. Scalzo said. "Studios know that this particular platform will drive interest and make these kids go and watch that opening release on opening weekend." (Integrated emphasis added)

All this PR talk and already it's funnier than a press release!

"The MTV audience has given the Twilight films so many nominations, and so much support, what better place to share with them the first trailer for the first part in the franchise's final chapter," said Nancy Kirkpatrick, Summit's president of worldwide marketing.

Indeed, what better place than SUMNER's Church, where advertisers get on their hands and knees to prey -- PRAY!

Though Paramount will plug Transformers 3 and Super 8 this year, Steve Siskind, Paramount's executive vice president of worldwide marketing and advertising, insists there's no corporate synergy afoot.

"They're really under church and state," Mr. Siskind told Ad Age.

Why worry when SUMNER'S CHURCH AND STATE!

PLATINUM-PLATED MORONS.

Sure to be a treat for the over-active imagination....

Like all those ad-vice-president martinets' beseeching God (aka SUMNER) He grant their prayer of at least THREE F-BOMBS!!!!!

Hey SUMNER! Why isn't CLEARWIRE a sponsor?

Posted 1:54 PM by Gene

Seeing how many thousands of Clear stores have popped up in my neighborhood...

Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) distributors lowered credit standards to attract thousands of new customers and inflate subscriber numbers starting in 2009, according to three former dealers.

Clearwire employees told distributors to sign up customers with credit scores below the company’s standard or bypass credit checks altogether, according to dealers including Joe Cruz and AK Kurji. Though the practice pulled in new customers, many soon left Clearwire, often without paying a bill, they said.

...why am I not surprised?

Posted 1:32 PM by Gene

We don't usually get our political news from THR, but....

The Hollywood favorite, who was supported by Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin....

GUILTY!

Posted 1:17 PM by Gene

"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."

It behooves us to rear more children in stable, married households, lest America soon belong to the dead.

Posted 9:26 AM by Gene

RrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRREGIETHEATAH comes to Sheridan, meaning it can't be performed any other way again, but that's okay as theatah in general and ancient theatah in particular have become irrelevant to the masses to the point of invisibility.

Never mind that this is one of the greatest plays of all time. It's gotta be HIP!!!!!

(Via the usual AHTSJournal, which would approve)

Posted 9:24 AM by Gene

The end of AIDS?

When a newsrag says this we have reason to doubt. Remember how the TWXSTERS and Dr. David Ho cured the disease.

Posted 9:20 AM by Gene

If "Limousine Michael" Moore "reformed" the way David "F-Word" Mamet has it would be the same thing. It's posturing without the smell. To us it's just our kind of PC intellectual, and we're not impressed.

Posted 8:40 AM by Gene

Dr. Death has died. Does that mean he gets experimented on now?

(Initially via MESS breaking-news squib; link at 8:43 a. m.)

Posted 2:48 PM by Gene

Oh, puh-LEEZE! These two?

Posted 2:47 PM by Gene

TRANSLATION: Don't look now, Steve, But Ms. "GO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST!" could someday be the new BOSS -- if that isn't the intent.

Posted 2:23 PM by Gene

At a SLIME-sponsored schmoozefest:

Iger said that 3-D technology must be used in the right way or studios risk annoying moviegoers who are asked to pay a few dollars more for tickets.

What's more important to YOU, Ub: annoying moviegoers or a few dollars more?

Posted 2:17 PM by Gene

The Paper of Re-CORD has appointed a new PRINCESS to serve under KING PINCH, and...

Collins on Abramson’s appointment: ‘Maybe we’ve reached the ultimate goal of the women’s movement’

Now we're 1,000-PERCENT SURE Romy never heard of Jim Tressel.

Posted 12:03 PM by Gene

Here's the thing: If we elect Republicans the financial villains go free.

If we elect Democrats our banks get regulated to within an inch of their lives -- and still the villains go free.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

(Via Marketwatch)

Posted 11:58 AM by Gene

By the time the Facebook ownership mess is resolved it may only be worth $450 billion.

Posted 11:45 AM by Gene

On LALA's home page -- epochal news:

Possible glitch in Lohan's monitor prompts officials' visit

Posted 11:22 AM by Gene

The Rev. Dr. Beck may be "gone" but He will live on.

(Via MediaBistro)

Posted 11:03 AM by Gene

Hey! Why not a golf course in space? With floating tees and rocket-propelled carts and....Of course with zero gravity the balls would never land anywhere -- in fact they'd be instant space junk -- but gee, wouldn't that be part of the fun?

And why not equip the balls with tiny transmitters so the golfers could engage in permanent distance contests?

Posted 10:21 AM by Gene

Ex-WP ombud on threats to OSU journalists: “My first reaction was, ‘This isn’t new’”

It's official: Romy never heard of Jim Tressel before.

Posted 9:22 AM by Gene

ASININE: LEGENDARY SCORSESE's now planning a Liz-'n'-Dick film.

Who's going to play them?

He has also spent years working on a biopic of Dean Martin that has yet to see the light of day.

Ditto, we hope.

And of course the Big G doesn't mention its source.

Posted 9:03 AM by Gene

More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand

TRANSLATION: The lurning establishmeant is confronting its total lack of judgment and sense.

Posted 9:07 PM by Gene

Who are we to argue with GENIUS when It says no record album's worth more than 99 cents -- especially when it didn't come out of the GENIUS's pocket?

(Via Billboard.biz, which had an unexplainable bad link despite using the identical URL)

Posted 6:47 PM by Gene

Chris's (um, uh, err) helicopter gag doesn't surprise us; he has almost as huge an ego as that other flying fiend HONORARY MAYOR MIKE and simply wanted to show off. Ultimately big egos foretell their possessors' doom: we saw it in Wisconsin where SCOTT!!!!! put the shovel to the ground under his feet, and SARAH!!!!! is poison because she KNOWS she's something special. Likewise the Weiner's richly-deserved troubles stem from a super-sized faith in himself. With egos come a lack of remorse compounded by a lack of sense. If we're not going to get humility from our elected slobs their inferiors must teach it to them.

P. S. The Journals say it cost "nothing". Did the cost just vanish into thin -- air?

Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

Kim Kardashian Shoots Down Pregnancy Rumors

NO! She just wanted it in People FIRST!

Posted 5:41 PM by Gene

Ohio State student journalists get threats over Tressel coverage

If we know Romy someone had to tell him who Jim Tressel is.

Posted 5:28 PM by Gene

Moody's cuts Greece rating; outlook negative

Shutting the stable door....

And the Greeks will be cleaning out that stable for some time.

Posted 5:25 PM by Gene

News Corp. to Decide on MySpace in 2 Weeks

Prediction: No one will buy it, so SLIME closes it -- or it goes the TV Guide route. (Remember that golden oldie, SLIME?)

Posted 5:20 PM by Gene

Help Wanted: Obama Campaign Starts Beefing Up Digital Team

If we know the parasi -- AD BIZ, He should get lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of help!

Posted 1:41 PM by Gene

Never buy stocks again? Seriously?

The way the Wall Street Casino is today you may have to be serious.

Yes, many investors are distrustful of Corporate America in general and Wall Street especially.

"The scarring is very deep and long lasting," said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist with Charles Schwab & Co in New York. "There's a view that the market is rigged and last year's Flash Crash did not help alleviate those concerns."

That's the American Way! Folks who mock it are UNAMERICAN!!

Posted 11:12 AM by Gene

Good news for those of us who now have an incentive to pirate show-biz' offerings:

With so many entertainment options available now, consumers are finding less value from entertainment products and an overwhelming majority are displeased with the industry’s [SIC] move to charge for services provided over the Internet, according to a survey by public relations company Edelman.

In its 2011 survey, Los Angeles- and London-based Edelman found that the value consumers are getting from the entertainment industry has fallen by 68 percent in all areas. Only 17 percent of all respondents feel that entertainment sources today provide "very good" or "excellent" value.

We don't know where that 68 percent number comes from -- 68 percent of zero is still zero -- but yep, anything that's no good free has no value, and the only people who'd say it has value of the people who produce the junk, or the industry's publicists.

(Via I Want Media)

Posted 10:59 AM by Gene

Three and a half years after becoming a national public figure, the liberal media [SIC!!!!!] still haven't learned how to treat Sarah Palin as a rational human being with a different set of values from their own.

Politics aside, the nice thing about writing for EM is that you don't have to know how -- and though we've made our mistakes too, we think we know better.

Posted 10:36 AM by Gene

THE WORLD'S LEADING NEWS WEB SITE pulls a daily double! First, it would take a very shallow person to CARE about Justin, and a complete idiot to send death threats. Be of good cheer, twits; you'll find a new heartthrob in two weeks -- then you can send him death threats. Second, one wants to show some compassion and feel sad for PARIS, but to us she more than made up for all the anguish by being inescapable for a decade. That she "confessed" her woe to THE NEW LARRY KING does not exactly help.

Posted 10:31 AM by Gene

Private sector job growth slumps in May

ISM's gauge of U.S. manufacturing suffers steepest 1-month decline since 1984

I don't care what anyone says -- even Robert J. Samuelson, who is reliable and at least well meaning: what started in September 2008 has not stopped.

Posted 9:45 AM by Gene

TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, dog bites man.

But it will be a little harder to argue this as it does NOT come from Human Events.

I might further add, this is a case FOR piracy.

Needless to say, except for THR which made this mistake, there will be a total news blackout.

Posted 9:00 AM by Gene

USAOKAY!!!!!, America's Leading Public Relations Outlet, auditions a new member for the Gang of 27! It seems they let him boast that PEOPLE WARNER's DC COMICS division (not the movie studio) will renumber all its comics' volume numbers -- starting with number one! Now we all know why: Mr. BEWKES figures No. 900 suggests METHUSELAH. But BRIAN, trying mightily hard for that spot in the Gang of 27, runs TWO STORIES to make sure we get His spin...word!



A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK MONTH! AWARD TO BRIAN -- AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING THE NATION'S ALL-STAR PR TEAM!

P. S. at 5:45 p. m. We saw the print edition and OKAY!!!!! sold it BIG-TIME on the front page!

P. P. S. on 6/2/2011 at 11:18 a.m. The Bible says Methuselah lived to be 969! We don't want any comics older than Methuselah!

(Story via LALA)

Posted 8:45 AM by Gene

Q: What's next for ousted coach Jim Tressel?

A: Can you say politics? A columnist for The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, seems to think Tressel, who resigned under an ethics cloud, would be a good choice to challenge Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown.

Seems to think?



Hey Jim! You can borrow his ferret!

Posted 8:35 PM by Gene

SEE THE U.S.A. IN YOUR Caddy and Nissan and Toyota and Jeep and Lexus and....

Posted 8:12 PM by Gene

Why we do NOT need the ASSPress, and why we do not need the publicists who call themselves JOURNALISTS: Yahoo! Philadelphia (or whatever it is) stuck me with this ASSPress bilge about Atlantic City because I had the right ZIP Code -- but despite all the professors of GAMING and retired GAMING executives scratching their scalps raw deeply wondering why the city's a disaster zone no one seems to have noticed that all those not-so-glittery GAMING halls are...



IN THE GHEEEEEEEEE-TOOOOOOOOOOO....

The SLUMS have absolutely NOTHING to do with Atlantic City's failure -- and all these trumpeting ex-TRUMPSTERS boasting about how WONDERFUL AC was tell me they ignored the GHEEEEEEEEEE-TOOOOOOOOOOOO too. SO DID THE ASSPRESS, which uses words like "ghetto", "slums" and "crime" NOT ONCE.

When the commenters are far more revealing than the story, that is the very definition of SUPERFLUOUS.



A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD (Feeling Sorry Division) TO WAYNE!

Posted 6:38 PM by Gene

The truth of the matter is that federal taxes in the United States are very low. There is no reason to believe that reducing them further will do anything to raise growth or reduce unemployment.

DEMOCRAT!!! COMMIE!!!!!

A former aide to RON!!!!! PAUL!!!!!?

(Via Seeking Alpha)

Posted 6:04 PM by Gene

Of course so is the too-aptly named Congressman who seems to have started a publicity stunt of his own. Think of him as the Bob Dornan of the trendy left, or Jim Traficant in a better district. We have nothing to say as such stunts only yield victims, the first one the truth, and furthermore a man who thinks with his mouth has no good judgment.

Posted 6:01 PM by Gene

Television’s Sarah Palin and Donald Trump to Meet Tonight in New York

A curious hed, especially given that SARAH!!!!! did not start out in television, but apt nonetheless. They have become the Ren and Stimpy of politics, loudmouthed cartoon characters more interested in doing stupid things and ticking people off than leading. No one would mistake either for a leader, except as they lead with their mouths. Of course many other pols are from television, but these two seem to represent nothing else.

Posted 1:24 PM by Gene

Show biz publicists (i.e., "reporters") spent all day Sunday and yesterday dancing on their desks because THE SLUMP IS OVER!!!!! You could tell they were extremely happy because they got PAUL DRECK to join in!!!!! Of course someone had to poop at the party, and the someone was 3D. For all the advertising this is bad news because most movies are evidently NOT better in 3D, and in time they'll make the movee S&M phreaks realize they may be worse in 2D. And despite the overseas boom 3D may be a "leading indicator" of worse to come. Don't forget DVDs are pancaking too. Better celebrate while you can, PAUL, DAVID "NON" GERMAIN and company; with luck in time you'll sing the blues.

(First link via the usual AHTSJournal)

Posted 11:01 AM by Gene

George Lucas Has 50 Hours Worth of ‘Star Wars’ TV Show

1. Is that a threat? 2. Will they better than the LEGENDARY Christmas special?

Posted 10:41 AM by Gene

Right-wing talk-radio hosts saw their ratings slump because COMMIES FIXED THEM!!!!!!!!!!

And besides, THEIR RATINGS NEVER SLUMPED!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't this the same pile of malarkey that runs Ben "DSK" Frankenstein? NUF SAID.

Posted 11:27 PM by Gene

We recall how B. S. DEFENDER would rah-rah the explosion of bad language in media, cherishing a supposed FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT. How mirthful then that bad language may be one of the culprits behind the Dodgers' box-office swoon.

What's good for PEOPLE WARNER may NOT be good for America.

Posted 9:58 PM by Gene

Speaking of Yahoo!, this story will only prove that denying Harry Potter a Branson East Theme Park Awards nomination was a premeditated crime!

Oh, please, it's only about how many thousands the producers can charge for the passes.

Posted 9:16 PM by Gene

I can see people commenting on Jim Tressel -- very much so after this article -- but why 1,071 comments on some insignificant quarrel in an insignificant game that didn't even rise to the level of screaming?

P. S. on that DAMNING SI account: I wonder what the former Ohio State student James Thurber would think? I think he would not be surprised. Though he might not have figured on the tattoos. (KEITH O reads the pertinent story here.)

Posted 11:00 AM by Gene

Meanwhile, back to airheaded frivolity:

"In the eighties and early nineties, the movie star was the brand," explains Simon Kinberg, producer of X-Men: First Class. "Then in the nineties, visual effects became the brand. Now, the brand is the brand."

"Movie"? What's a "movie"?

Posted 10:28 AM by Gene

From a rag we associate with airheaded frivolity: a story on the hunt for a cure for AIDS:

[A]dvances in treatment have further shifted attention from the hunt for a cure. A study released in May found that early anti-retroviral therapy decreases patients’ infectiousness by a striking 96 percent. Today, most people on anti-retroviral drugs achieve an undetectable viral load—there is virtually no HIV circulating in their blood. An idea has taken hold: We can live with this.

But we cannot. Doctors will tell you that many patients still fail treatment and die. As people age with the disease, we are seeing that even those successfully treated can lose years of life. A massive multicountry study published in The Lancet in 2008 reported that someone starting therapy at age 20 could expect to live to only 63. The following year, another study found that a group of HIV-positive patients with a median age of 56 had immune systems comparable to those of healthy 88-year-olds. The latent reservoir of HIV seems to be most to blame, producing inflammation that degrades the immune system, increasing susceptibility to age-related diseases. What’s more, research has shown that the drugs themselves can lead to increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.

The cost of treatment is also unsustainable. In the United States, second-line drugs—for people who don’t improve on standard medications—can total $30,000 a year. Cash-strapped states are trimming programs that pay for these medicines; there are now more than 8,300 people in America on waiting lists for anti-retroviral drugs. In developing countries, drugs are much cheaper—some generic regimens cost only $67 annually—but wealthy nations are wearying of picking up the bill. According to UNAIDS, 10 million people in the Third World who need treatment are not getting it at all. The math of the epidemic is unrelenting: For every three people who start treatment, five new people are infected.

A vaccine for AIDS is “probably decades away,” says Daria Hazuda, a vice-president at Merck. “There’s still an enormous amount of hope, but people now realize it’s going to be extremely complicated.” We know now that we will neither treat nor vaccinate our way out of this epidemic. But there could be another way for it to end.

And that way apparently involves stem-cell research, and you know what that means. And even this man who has been "cured" of AIDS has suffered lingering side effects. We should always hope to eradicate this scourge, but most likely it will not even be in our great-grandchildren's lifetimes.

Posted 10:05 AM by Gene

Can Rahm Emanuel Save the Chicago Film Renaissance?

Obviously this writer for Dalliant & Dainty and The Junior Varsity wants him to spendspendspend if that's what it takes -- so long as its other people's money, of course -- meaning the time quickly arrives when we put TheAtlantic.com on our S-LIST.

Posted 9:56 AM by Gene

The stench got so bad even Ohio State finally objected.

Trustee Algenon L. Marbley, reached this morning, declined to comment and said that trustees decided that Gee would speak for the university.

We mustn't make fun of names so we'll just say this is what runs football factories. (Via CBS Sports)

P. S. at 1:34 p. m.

OSU doesn't have to pay Tressel anything

We'll see about that!

Posted 9:53 AM by Gene

TRANSLATION: News hacks reserve the right to criticize police officers mercilessly when they don't do something PC; the only reason we can't blast them now is that this was beyond the pale.

Posted 9:51 AM by Gene

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand, more than one can say for the Germans.

Let's see alternative energy sources work.

But if renewable energy is to help compensate for the eventual loss of nuclear power, a broader range of policy measures is necessary to create the kind of monetary incentives developers require.

The greatest potential for growth and profit, according to Quitzow, lies in the modernisation of the renewable energy grid – and the key to this is smarter public policy and investment.

“Grid development requires large-scale coordination and investment by the government – the private sector alone can’t achieve that,” Quitzow said.

Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 5:57 PM by Gene

If it's Sunday it must be Big Double-A-Scribble Time:

1. All these CEOs rushrushrushing to get their luxury suites for the NFL may have saddled their companies with all sorts of unusable promotional materials! "There IS going to be a season", says the "chief consumer officer for Mars Chocolate North America" [emphasis added], meaning the bosses have been on HER case for those 50-yard tickets. "P&G...was aware of the potential for a labor dispute when it negotiated its deal", meaning the bosses weren't going to give up their right to yell at THEIR subordinates!

We sigh because most likely the billionaires and zillionaires will reach a last-second deal. But wouldn't it be nice if they didn't?

2. Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is 'Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear'

We know He's right, because how many scribblers has HE driven to sheer insanity, insecurity and fear because they haven't met THEIR quota for puff pieces and rave reviews?

3. News Corp.'s Hulu Hope: To Add More Commercials

News Corp.'s REAL hope: To drive away viewers while charging more for the ads!

4. You know Corporate America's leaders don't think they've arrived until they've wasted billions on an unnecessary acquisition -- like PEPSICO buying QUAKER OATS.

Here's betting Indra doesn't get what Her company paid for it. Who REALLY wants Rice-A-Roni and Life cereal? (Even if we like them.)

Quaker today faces some new competition in oatmeal from private label and chains such as McDonald's and Starbucks, as well as cereal, where most brands are down. [Emphasis added]

They couldn'ta done it without ADVERTISING!

Posted 4:14 PM by Gene

Glad to see SUMNER's goodwill ambassadors doing their part!

Posted 4:00 PM by Gene

Figures: That Mac malware (which, as we all know, is not supposed to touch such saintly devices) originated in Russia.

Posted 3:52 PM by Gene

We grasp at straws looking for critics who can write and think, and who moreover aren't afraid to let the overrated have it; thankfully Jonathan Yardley hasn't given up the good fight, as shown in this tearing apart of a PC academic novel.

We will confess, though, we'd much rather read him rip up Barbara Sinatra's "memoir".

Posted 2:58 PM by Gene

Want to put a con-SER-va-tive into a bad mood? Mention attempts to limit CEO pay.

The bad news for con-SER-va-tives: They seem to be working. The good news: They're not working that well.

Posted 1:04 PM by Gene

The Heat are showing how to overcome enormous hype and deliver on those expectations. For everyone else, it is like watching the bully win.

And that is exactly what Phillies fans hope to see in October.

Such typing with five hands, thirty-one fingers and a third of a brain is why I'm starting to think sports hacks are almost as undeserving of employment as "cri-TICS". They sit in the equivalent of a luxury box with their feet on the desk, summoning the glories of the heavens when their team wins and hellfire and brimstone when it loses, making six digits and nonetheless dreaming of Bristol and the guys writing infinite palaver for SI. Okay Bill or Mel or whatever your name is, the Bullies will win ten straight Series, and you'll quintuple your salary, and a regular-season ducat for the nosebleed sections will cost $2,000. How many others will be happy? And how much will it cost our city's already rotten reputation?

TRANSLATION: WINNING ISN'T EEEEEEEVERYTHING....

Posted 11:47 AM by Gene

Our president, back to His first calling:

Obama going to Missouri to offer help in healing