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• Media, Politics

  Know the Risk

  01.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been a long time critic of so called “security measures” and not because a nutjob made it on to an airplane with a potential bomb. It’s because the measures are for show, they can’t be effective with the volume of travelers and the mass of crap moving along with the travelers. Society seems to [...]

• Media, Sports

  The Greatest Ever

  07.31.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Maybe I’m just getting older and crankier, but I simply cannot stand the hyperbole of “such and such is the greatest player ever” or “it was the greatest game ever” or “the greatest company ever.” Particularly *before* the event has been played or while the player is still playing the game. Obviously this “greatest ever” [...]

• Media

  Dropping Like Flies

  06.29.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Seems like it’s not a good time to be a celebrity, they’re dying left and right. With all the hoo-ha going on around this “Michael Jackson was the best performer ever!” NOT! I thought I’d weigh in with the one passing that actually had any connection for me, that was Farrah Fawcett. Not that I [...]

• Business, Media

  Someone Kill Evony Already

  06.11.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  In a down advertising market, a game maker has decided to absolutely flood the available online ad space with the image shown to the right. For some reason, my ad block software seems to fail on this particular set of ads, so I see it all the time and I’m sick of them. So my [...]

• Humor, Media

  Clever Little Commercial

  04.15.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  When I saw this, I splut liquid through my nose I laughed so hard. If ads were like this in the US, I’d watch more commercial TV – just for the ads! No, we go all crazy over anything sex related except when it’s combined with violence (i.e., touch a breast, it’s rated X, cut [...]

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