Random musings on the news...
Gee, funny thing...the price of oil is STILL phenomenally high, yet both Exxon/Mobil and Shell have posted quarterly profit statements that show an INCREASE of 35-40%, depending on the company. And they still claim that there's no price-gouging going on in the gasoline sales market...
GW's new broadcast indecency laws, inspired by the notorious Janet Jackson Halftime incident, are now potentially endangering the broadcast of a WWII documentary series. Narratives from veterans, in their own voices and their own words, have been compiled into a PBS-produced series called 'The War'. But, these being military men, sometimes their words are a bit coarse...and with potential fines of $325,000 PER INCIDENT of 'indecent broadcasting', a lot of PBS stations may choose not to risk discovering whether or not this qualifies.
Editing history--THAT's indecent.
There's a growing movement of military bloggers, frustrated at the biased reporting of events they see in the mainstream media...Milblogging.com is trying to keep a compilation of the more reputable (or at least the least inane and psycho) ones. Not all of them blindly support the War, in fact quite a few of them are quite critical of the policies behind it. But they are telling stories of how things are on the ground from the military side of it. There's also been a huge influx of home video, shot on the ground in Lebanon, that's been posted to sites such as YouTube.
Power to the people...the day is coming when we may all have a voice heard round the world. (Hope everyone learns to tell their stories well, or people will stop listening anyway.)
And, finally, in the 'Who'd-a-thunk-it' category...a man managed to barter his way from a single red paper clip all the way up to a house...AND THEN get paid for the movie rights to the story.
To quote from 'Gyspy', "You gotta have a gimmick if you want to get ahead..."
Gee, funny thing...the price of oil is STILL phenomenally high, yet both Exxon/Mobil and Shell have posted quarterly profit statements that show an INCREASE of 35-40%, depending on the company. And they still claim that there's no price-gouging going on in the gasoline sales market...
GW's new broadcast indecency laws, inspired by the notorious Janet Jackson Halftime incident, are now potentially endangering the broadcast of a WWII documentary series. Narratives from veterans, in their own voices and their own words, have been compiled into a PBS-produced series called 'The War'. But, these being military men, sometimes their words are a bit coarse...and with potential fines of $325,000 PER INCIDENT of 'indecent broadcasting', a lot of PBS stations may choose not to risk discovering whether or not this qualifies.
Editing history--THAT's indecent.
There's a growing movement of military bloggers, frustrated at the biased reporting of events they see in the mainstream media...Milblogging.com is trying to keep a compilation of the more reputable (or at least the least inane and psycho) ones. Not all of them blindly support the War, in fact quite a few of them are quite critical of the policies behind it. But they are telling stories of how things are on the ground from the military side of it. There's also been a huge influx of home video, shot on the ground in Lebanon, that's been posted to sites such as YouTube.
Power to the people...the day is coming when we may all have a voice heard round the world. (Hope everyone learns to tell their stories well, or people will stop listening anyway.)
And, finally, in the 'Who'd-a-thunk-it' category...a man managed to barter his way from a single red paper clip all the way up to a house...AND THEN get paid for the movie rights to the story.
To quote from 'Gyspy', "You gotta have a gimmick if you want to get ahead..."
posted by Curtis at 10:39 AM
2 Comments:
I'm proud of the red paper clip guy. However, even though his house was nearly free...he's still going to be living in Nowheresville, Canada.
That's assuming he stops with THAT house...
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