American Idol (or any amateur hour type show)
I-Phones
Harry Potter
The Simpsons Movie
YouTube (and the YouTube debate nonsense)
Text Messsaging
MySpace
Monday, July 30, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
How to Earn $1 Million by Not Watching TV
I saw this article on Yahoo finance. The headline touted "How to Earn $1 million by Not Watching TV". Intriguing enough, so I read it.
What a bunch of BS. After several paragraphs of dubious arithmetic, you have to read almost the whole article to find out that that 80% of the money you will "save" is the money you would have spent due to the influence of TV commercials.
This article was from thestreet.com, a site supposedly dedicated to financial education.
There are a lot of good reasons to limit TV watching, but not the expectation that you are going to end up with $1 million in your pocket.
What a bunch of BS. After several paragraphs of dubious arithmetic, you have to read almost the whole article to find out that that 80% of the money you will "save" is the money you would have spent due to the influence of TV commercials.
This article was from thestreet.com, a site supposedly dedicated to financial education.
There are a lot of good reasons to limit TV watching, but not the expectation that you are going to end up with $1 million in your pocket.
Monday, July 9, 2007
The Seven Wonders of The World
The seven new wonders of the world were chosen by popular vote recently and, having visited several of the nominees, it is clear the vote was one of popularity, not an objective ranking of the sites. The final 7 chosen are:
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India.
Of these, I have visited Chichen Itza, Christ the Redeemer, The Great Wall, Macchu Picchu and the Taj Mahal.
My first observation is that any list of wonders that does not include the temples at Angkor Wat is fatally flawed. I consider Angkor to be the #1 wonder of the world I have seen (never saw the pyramids of Egypt). Angkor far surpasses Chichen Itza and Christ The Redeemer in its powerful beauty and scale. Clearly the Brazilians and Mexicans cast more votes than the people of Cambodia.
Next, I cannot understand why the manmade rice terraces of China and Central Bali would not be considered a great wonder of the world. It is a truly awe inspiring sight. Not a monument to the greatness of a regime like the others, but an active work of communal architecture that supports the lives of millions of people.
Lastly, the Great Wall: I am fully in agreement with this one.
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colloseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India.
Of these, I have visited Chichen Itza, Christ the Redeemer, The Great Wall, Macchu Picchu and the Taj Mahal.
My first observation is that any list of wonders that does not include the temples at Angkor Wat is fatally flawed. I consider Angkor to be the #1 wonder of the world I have seen (never saw the pyramids of Egypt). Angkor far surpasses Chichen Itza and Christ The Redeemer in its powerful beauty and scale. Clearly the Brazilians and Mexicans cast more votes than the people of Cambodia.
Next, I cannot understand why the manmade rice terraces of China and Central Bali would not be considered a great wonder of the world. It is a truly awe inspiring sight. Not a monument to the greatness of a regime like the others, but an active work of communal architecture that supports the lives of millions of people.
Lastly, the Great Wall: I am fully in agreement with this one.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Scooter Libby
It makes perfect sense for George Bush to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby.
There really isn't anything Bush could do to diminish his reputation even further, so why not do something to shore up the hard core conservative base of the Republican Party? What's the downside: Democrats and moderates will lose respect for Bush? They already have no respect for him.
Bush could pose nude with Ann Coulter and a penguin and the conservative base would praise him for it. On the other hand he could personally behead Osama Bin Laden and the Democrats would find fault.
There really isn't anything Bush could do to diminish his reputation even further, so why not do something to shore up the hard core conservative base of the Republican Party? What's the downside: Democrats and moderates will lose respect for Bush? They already have no respect for him.
Bush could pose nude with Ann Coulter and a penguin and the conservative base would praise him for it. On the other hand he could personally behead Osama Bin Laden and the Democrats would find fault.
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