Monthly Archives: March 2010

Do non-Hawaiians have a “tangible interest” in seeing President Obama’s birth certificate? The state legislature is considering passing a law telling “birthers” to just give it up http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100317/D9EG7MBO0.html which of course just reinforces that someone is hiding something.

Blockbuster considering filing Chapter 11 – between NetFlix, Satellite TV and movies on demand, the quaint idea of going to a physical store to rent a DVD has run its course – not to mention that movies are an obvious … Continue reading →

It’s March Madness…. stations will be carrying basketball games for the rest of the month – stations that didn’t carry regular season games. If a stream seems to be down in the evening or the weekends, and is also down … Continue reading →

All 57 states will save 3000% on health care. Someone should ask President Obama to speel potatoe.

Was Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie a Marxist or maybe even a Communist? Or is Glenn Beck an out of control paranoid McCarthy wannabe? Let’s check in with PBS PBS Profile on Woody Guthrie The most direct mention is that Woody … Continue reading →

When Cable TV companies want to carry TV stations, they have to pay TV stations to use their intellectual property. If the NAB opposes paying “taxes” on using music, why do they support cable TV paying a “tax” to carry … Continue reading →

Citadel gets right to cancel “programming deals”. The Bankruptcy judge has given Citadel the green light to tear up its contracts for programming, like the one with Clear Channel and Sean Hannity. Whether Clear Channel will renegotiate the contracts or … Continue reading →

Radio Derb – combine sarcasm, a sense of irony, conservative politics and dry British humo[u]r and you have Radio Derb, a production of National Review Online. Well worth the time to listen and ponder.

Here come higher interest rates… Still not “high”, but when the market thinks the flood of free dollars for lending is gone, momentum can build quickly. Keep your eyes on LIBOR – that’s the only one that matters.

“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 →