Monthly Archives: December 2009

Lionel train sets, an American tradition for over a hundred years (made in China)

It’s almost 2010 – if you’re running a radio station (a communications business) and you don’t yet have a basic web site, I’m no longer giving you the benefit of any doubt…. you’ll be in the “unknown” pile and basically … Continue reading →

The New Medicine – Drug you until you die… The NY Times greases the skids for Obamacare by making the case for just sedating old sick people to end their lives quietly without causing agitation. Never again?.

Christmas day bomber is the well educated son of a Muslim economics minister from a post-colonial sub-Saharan African country. Sounds a lot like Barack Obama, don’t you think?

Cell phone only households – it’s up to like 1/3 of all households that no longer have a “real’ phone. A few months ago, Arbitron started working hard to sign up these type of people for purposes of doing ratings. … Continue reading →

You haven’t heard really bad music until you hear the polka version of “Let there be peace on Earth”… what were they thinking? and what is the DJ thinking to play it?

Fox News Radio tells listeners which seat to sit in on a plane if you want to blow up the plane, and why. Are they really this stupid, or do they just want to help our enemies? Unfortunately, John Batchelor … Continue reading →

Ice cries when it melts. So you vegetarians need to stop using ice cubes.

Would you travel by train if it ran at 217 mph? China has just launched its first long distance high speed train – roughly the equivalent of a train from NY to Chicago that would take 3 hours…

BBC North American Service – I wonder how many people realize that BBC news they’re hearing on NPR is the “North American” service that is crafted to influence public opinion in the United States and Canada, not the broadcast that … Continue reading →

NY Times reports on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s effort to build a road in Indonesia to help recover from the tsunami 5 years ago. The last remaining piece is to complete a bridge across a river. The project … Continue reading →

iPhones for Christmas? That’s my guess why YouTube has been close to useless all day

Exxon/Mobil has left the gasoline business – at least in my part of the world. After getting so much heat for high gasoline prices in summer 2008 (which we now pretty much know was a trader at Goldman Sachs parking … Continue reading →

If $400 billion isn’t enough, the government now has given Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae an infinite sized permission to raid the US Treasury. Can we say Moral Hazard?

Lieberman didn’t need a bribe to force dropping the Medicare 55+ buyin – Connecticut has the highest per capita employment rate working in insurance in the United States….