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“Please don’t call me Shirley”… Peter Graves has died at age 83, apparently of a heart attack. He starred in the original “Mission Impossible” TV show, and the Airplane movies. As a teenager, he worked at WMIN in Minneapolis. If … Continue reading →

Pat Gray is a chess player – that’s my guess. This “Some Christian leaders are Marxists” thing is busy percolating out there, now drawing in Roger Ebert. What the ACORN experience should have taught people is that Glenn is playing … Continue reading →

Google Nexus One dropped 70% – not the price, the Goldman Sachs guestimate of how many phones Google will sell. GS had originally believed Google would sell 3.5 million of the Android based phones in 2010. Now they are guessing … Continue reading →

Lowering blood pressure below 140 systolic with medication or lowering cholesterol harms health, and does not reduce heart attack or stroke risk according to a 10 year study of over 1000 type 2 (adult onset) diabetics LA Times coverage I … Continue reading →

Cuba 2003 “speeder” trip… Don’t run over my chickens!

The PSA test is a big mistake – so says the doctor who invented the test in a NY Times Op-Ed. The test was never intended as a screening test, but rather as a monitoring tool for men who already … Continue reading →

LA Times pooh-poohs Rush Limbaugh mentioning President Obama’s unilaterally ending the comment period for feedback on changes to fishing laws. WIthout quoting any actual facts, the author urges Rush to “hire a fact checker”. Rush mentioned on the show (which … Continue reading →

It’s NCAA college basketball playoff season…. Other than Title 9, why would a radio station put women’s college basketball on the air? Or high school hockey tournaments?

Local news…. 68 year old fireman dies of heart attack responding to fire, unemployment is still going up (11.4%), radio amateur / emergency management volunteer dies trying to save his dog in a fire at his house caused by smoking … Continue reading →

Radio and Health Care are broken for the same reason. The provider looks at who is writing the checks, not who is consuming the service. The poll here clearly shows that people in the Radio Biz consider the advertisers their … Continue reading →

Repos (repurchase agreements) and the failure of Lehman… The Wall Street Journal starts to explain how Lehman used Repos to “lend” its troubled assets off of their balance sheets and raise cash on Balance Sheet reporting days (and agreeing to … Continue reading →

President Obama’s next project is to reform elementary school education. Federal control of education is one of the keys to advancing socialism. Get them singing “this land is your land”, dancing around the May Pole, celebrating Earth Day and rationalizing … Continue reading →

NYC cabs overcharged 1.8 million times last year – it’s the fault of the small buttons! claims the taxi driver association. The New York Times reports that 80% of the drivers had charged the suburban rate to people in the … Continue reading →

Michael Savage: “We – the middle class – don’t want health care” + “I just spent $40,000 on plantation blinds at my new house” = ?

Citadel launches “Reagan Radio 96.7” in Dallas / Fort Worth TX at KPMZ-FM. KPMZ was a music station until noon. This is more than likely a “Stunt” – but the suspicion is the station will land on being a Conservative … Continue reading →