*** RANT ALERT *** I am never quite as cynical and surly as I am at this time of year. From now until after New Year’s Day, I will be mostly snarling and resentful, morose and miserable — and will be trying without success to ignore it all by isolating myself even more than usual. … Continue reading It’s duck and cover till January 2
It seems like only yesterday we were reading about the Walmart employee who was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers surging into his store when it opened. The ugliness of the story is unforgettable. That’s why Walmart is taking steps this year to see that it doesn’t happen again. The fix includes having many … Continue reading Walmart’s Black Friday fix
The Progresso Soup ad where folks are calling each other on phones made of soup cans and string. Any kid who has ever made those phones knows they only work if the strings are held taut. Strings in the ad are slack. Methinks the people who made the ad had no experience with such phones. … Continue reading Ads that bug me more than most
Health care reform, Afghanistan, the Fort Hood shootings. But what are the headlines filled with? Oprah! Oprah is leaving her TV talk show. She’s leaving in 2011, more than a year from now! But there are tears, reflection, and retrospectives everywhere you turn. Fer cryin’ out loud, people, she’s not gone yet! She won’t be … Continue reading Oprah stories a year premature
A few days ago, CNN ran a Jeanne Meserve report on Internet privacy. It was brief and superficial and concluded with the obvious warning that every time you hit send or enter, your information is launched into the infinity of cyberspace. Forget privacy. Anything you put out there, anywhere, can be found by someone with … Continue reading There’s no such thing as Internet privacy
Books. What wondrous things they are. How invaluable they’ve been throughout history as bearers and guardians of mankind’s greatest ideas. As I child I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by books. There were walls of books in my home and in my relatives’ homes. Collected and cherished by their owners, kept always within view, … Continue reading The love of books
