I wonder if “NBC” stands for “Not Brainy Chief”?

NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker says:

“We know that Apple has destroyed the music business — in terms of pricing — and if we don’t take control, viagra usa case they’ll do the same thing on the video side.”

Ahhhh, thumb no.

Napster destroyed the music business. Apple put it on life support.

1 comment October 30th, 2007

People actually seem to be reading the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel!

I noticed a spike in traffic to this blog this weekend and it seems to correspond to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel including this post in Sunday’s Best of the Blogs feature.

Proof that people are still reading old-fashioned newspapers! (Even if they were only reading the online version. ;)

Add comment October 22nd, 2007

I think REAL polls and surveys are bullshit

So imagine what I think of an ON-LINE poll that has 88% of respondents saying Rep. Stark should not apologize for the things he said about our troops in Iraq.

I could care less about whether the man apologizes or not, discount viagra seek I do care that an endlessly repeatable, recipe open, mind completely non-scientific poll should be cited as proof of ANYTHING.

4 comments October 19th, 2007

Burying the lead

The first sentence in this story points out that people who actually have to work hard for a living are more depressed than…oh, discount viagra case I don’t know…let’s say journalists (or bloggers, cialis sale for that matter):

People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.

Sort of makes you think that hard work is bad, doesn’t it?

But the writer could have just as easily made the second-to-last sentence in the piece his lead:

Just working full-time would appear to be beneficial in preventing depression. The overall rate of depression for full-time workers, 7 percent, compares with the 12.7 percent rate registered by those who are unemployed.

Of course, that would fly in the face of conventional wisdom that it’s better to be on welfare than working a job that’s “beneath you.”

(My understanding is that’s what we have illegal immigrants for, anyway.)

Sigh.

3 comments October 14th, 2007

The most revealing thing I’ve read today:

An editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains the line:

The Legislature was elected to create a spending plan for the state.

Untrue.

Legislatures are elected to govern.

Sometimes that involves spending money.

The evil assumption that spending money is government’s main purpose is one of the reasons why big government and its many accomplices must be resisted at every turn.

4 comments October 13th, 2007

Eugene Kane misses the point again

When Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane writes that he hates hearing news about a horrific shooting because he’s afraid the shooter might be black and thus encourage more criticism of the inner city’s completely dysfunctional culture, best viagra unhealthy he’s missing the truly disturbing point: a black man shooting a bunch of people in an American inner city stopped being news a long time ago.

Add comment October 12th, 2007

You’ve got to be shittin’ me.

It was a JOKE.

5 comments October 3rd, 2007

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane flunks again.

In his column in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, cialis tadalafil Eugene Kane implies that white kids do better than black kids on standardized tests because the groups don’t share the same cultural references and the tests are biased in favor of the white kids’ culture.

For example, sildenafil cialis he points out that black kids would be more likely than white kids to know that “5-O” is inner-city slang for police.

(On the other hand, buy I wonder how many of those kids would know that “5-O” is a reference to Hawaii Five-O, the exceeedingly white-bread cop show set in Hawaii in the 70s? Also, doesn’t everybody know that “5-O” means police?)

I’m not exactly sure what Mr. Kane’s point is.

Does he want standardized tests to have more inner-city-specific questions like “What invisible force makes it possible for the metal detector to find the gat in your backpack” or “Bobby has three bags of crack. If Bobby swallows two bags, how many bags does he have left?”

(Before you call me a racist, aren’t those questions exactly in line with the argument Mr. Kane was making?)

Standardized test creators already do everything they can to scrub bias from their tests.

So unless inner-city culture has discovered that 2+2 doesn’t really equal 4, “cultural bias” is just another excuse that helps perpetuate an inner-city culture of isolation and failure.

Bottom line?

Inner-city kids aren’t failing because of their culture, it’s their culture that’s failing them.

4 comments October 2nd, 2007

Less than 4 percent of American’s use blogs as their primary source of news

Thank God.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Stan Miller reports this statistic with some disbelief, viagra buy prescription but imagine a world where most American’s were getting most of their news from people like me.

Shiver.

1 comment October 1st, 2007

It seems, all you have to do to end up in the Milwaukee Journal’s Best of the Blogs section…

…is to express your wish that several major cities will be destroyed by flooding of biblical proportions.

As TV “journalists” love to say, cialis sales pills “if it bleeds, it leads, baby!” (OK, I added the “baby” for extra effect.)

I’ll have to remember that. ;)

2 comments September 30th, 2007