The watch repair concessionaire at Sears was offering a three-dollar off sale on new batteries this week, so I thought I’d go take advantage of it. This involved finding all the watches which need them, of course, and I suddenly realized how many I have. A Longines bought in 1984 in Lucerne, a Bulova Accutron …
Continue reading ‘Does anybody really know what time it is’ »
Lemme get this straight: there’s a new strain of flu apparently transmissable from chickens to humans which might become a pandemic, the Senate Majority Leader just got some ricin through the mail, and the Bush FY 2005 budget cuts the Center for Disease Control budget by 8.9%. Meanwhile, the budget includes $10.2B for a missile …
The award for Selective Response to Public Outcry by a Public Official goes to (drumroll)…Michael Powell of the FCC. On June 2, the FCC by a partisan vote of 3 to 2 approved sweeping broadcast media deregulation. The FCC’s decision came in the face of overwhelming opposition from the American people. In all, more than …
So which advertiser is gonna be first to sue CBS, MTV, Viacom, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson? Think about it. Millions of dollars spent to get your commercial first on the minds of all viewers talking around water coolers today, and what’s the primary topic? On the cable “news” channels, too, that “oops” moment is …
Well, that was a surprise. I certainly didn’t expect the total points to get to 61. We were all caught a little off-guard when the game suddenly started to get really exciting there; most of us had concluded that the second half would be more like the first 27 minutes of the first half. The …