Gap-Stop the Laptop
April 2, 2009I hate Internet Explorer. My laptop went bozo Monday morning and I lost Mozilla Firefox and can’t get it back. IE sucks so bad, no linking, no images, no nothing. Bill Gates and Microsoft should…
Category Archives: Media
‘Ghost Net’
March 28, 2009Hack into the matrix: The malware is remarkable both for its sweep — in computer jargon, it has not been merely “phishing†for random consumers’ information, but “whaling†for particular important targets — and for…
Straight-Shooter Business
March 27, 2009Bow-tied and all business, long-time TV news journalist, Irving R. Levine, died Thursday at the age of 86. Levine was an original, who like Murrow, Cronkite, Howard K. Smith, to name a few, were themselves…
Despair Economics
March 26, 2009This so-called “financial meltdown” is indeed a down, but a descent from the base-bottom up — Close to 70 percent of the current unemployed in the US are blue-collar workers despite all the Wall Street…
When Smart-Ass Reporters Ask Dumb-Ass Questions
March 25, 2009News people working the White House are way-too-cool for school — Last night, they acted the arrogant clowns displaying delusional as opposed to actual smarts during President Obama’s press conference. (Illustration found here). Obama is…
Sugar-Coat the Stress
March 24, 2009A side effect of continuous bad news on the doorstep. This morning in the New York Times: The recession seems to have a sweet tooth. As unemployment has risen and 401(k)’s have shrunk, Americans, particularly…
An Audacity of Impertinence: Obama’s Toxic Shame
March 22, 2009If not for the way-pissed-off feeling I have, coupled with a sense of nothing-you-can-do despair, maybe this would be sad, or least wouldn’t appear so freakin’ obviously stupid: Mr. Haas walked on, his pink shirt…
Yes! Yes! Hate and Anger!
March 19, 2009Gail Collins, who writes for the New York Times editorial pages, has penned a right-on, nail-’em-to-the-wall piece this morning on the AIG/banking/finance clusterf**k of a freakin’ mess. Collins is way-pissed: Angry. So very, very angry.…
Journalism: ‘It’s Not A F**king Game!’
March 14, 2009In the past few years, a lot of people and organizations who should have been the standard bearers for news gathering and reporting have dropped the ball big time — Journalism sucks nowadays. Despite all…
‘Hooker’ Guitar: GOP Music
March 12, 2009The new normal for Republicans exemplified by such goings on: Inverness Police say former Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien admitted having two prostitutes in his children’s playroom when his wife walked in on him…