Just for fun. Interesting to think about terms one might use to do such a routine with basketball or hockey.
George Carlin on baseball vs. football
February 8th, 2010Statistics: mostly dumb but with thought-provoking tidbits
February 7th, 2010For example, what’s the percentage of purchasers who write off their tickets for the Superbowl (being played? to be played?) in Dolphin Stadium as a business expense? (Forget the percentage of those hosting private or corporate parties elsewhere. Including the White House?)
The answer is 35 effing percent! How is business different from sports and government and journalism and our military and…
Herbert Hoover famously said, “The business of America is business.” Eisenhower (another, but less clueless, Republican president) told us to beware the “military-industrial complex.” The other night my wife and I watched the original movie version of Roller Ball, where business IS sports and government and history and everything else.
Big Banking now dictates rules affecting Wall Street (and then Big Banking mocks the American people by using bailout money to reward themselves with obscenely huge bonuses). Big Insurance have allllmmmmmoooooost killed insurance reform (a sliver of opportunity for reform and justice is still open). Big Banking, Big Insurance, Big Energy own the U.S. government.
See what I mean? Consider the statistics provided here. There’s a lot of truth embodied in seemingly trivial data.
By the Numbers: Super Bowl Facts and Figures
by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil
on 02. 5.10
Democrats clarify their position
February 7th, 2010Speaking to reporters, Majority Leader Harry Reid insisted there be no mistake in understanding the position Senate Democrats have taken relative to their Republican colleagues. To emphasize his words, he showed reporters the following poster:
Warning: GOP Crossing!
February 6th, 2010If you’ve heard or read anything about the teabagging conference, you’ll understand this warning. And remember, these are people who include Republicans. And that supposedly “mainstream” Republicans have not renounced the racism, jingoism, violence, and general paranoia of these “performers.” That’s why this is a GOP warning, not a political comedy troupe warning.
What does “CBS” stand for?
February 6th, 2010Here’s one good answer!
Gotta see this!
February 5th, 2010Using hands and fingers, artist Kseniya Simonova draws on an illuminated sand table. As she draws, her work is projected onto a large screen. The topic is the effect of the German invasion in WW II on ordinary citizens.
This clip has gone totally viral, but just in case you haven’t seen it…
Remembering the Greensboro sit-in
February 2nd, 2010This is a student production, kids reading the words of the original participants. Hard for old geezers to remember that this happened 50 years ago. And harder still to think of how much racism still festers in our country.
Protecting children’s impressionable minds
February 2nd, 2010
Wall Street pigs know who keeps the troughs full
February 1st, 2010Keep that in mind as you consider the following, from the Boston Globe :
Financial executives spent big on Brown
May be precursor to midterm elections; Obama’s proposed regulations key issue
By Casey Ross
Globe Staff / February 1, 2010
In a six-day span just before the US Senate election, Republican Scott Brown collected nearly $450,000 from donors who work at financial companies, a sign the industry is prepared to spend heavily in the upcoming midterm elections to beat back new controls and taxes President Obama wants to impose.
Stories for Julia: Visiting the Park with Puppy
January 31st, 2010[CLICK ON THE ON-SCREEN ARROW TO ADVANCE.]
