The Laugh Track
I watched two more television shows without laugh tracks last night. If there’s no laugh track telling me to laugh is it still a funny show? I have my doubts. The laugh track has been around since the...
View ArticleGoogle The Spy
In the age of privacy concerns, nobody likes to be spied upon. Like it or don’t, Big Brother Google is spying on us. Do you mind? Do you Google? The most popular of the world’s internet search engines,...
View ArticleWhere Do You Get The News?
This is a question that changes through the years. From what sources do you get your daily supply of the news? Is it the daily or weekly newspaper? How about television news, such as CNN, Fox News, or...
View Article500 Channels And Nothing Is On
Television has become predictable and boring. 500 channels and nothing’s on. The next great thing on television isn’t on TV. It isn’t just network television which has become banal, boring, and bad....
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With Wikipedia?
My parents bought a set of World Book encyclopedias when I was a child. Today’s kids have Wikipedia. What’s wrong with that? Wikipedia is an internet encyclopedia in which anyone, almost everyone, can...
View ArticleInflation Or No Inflation?
In general, economists in the U.S. insist there is no real inflation. How do they explain the price gouging going on at the corner gasoline station? Prices fluctuate for a variety of reasons, not the...
View ArticleLife after the Sunday Comics
From the middle 1970′s and for over 20 years following, the Daily Dose of Doonesbury was required reading for this and many other maturing baby boomers. A few years ago I noticed that the Daily Dose...
View ArticleThe Unreadable Book
Back in 1992, Richard Saul Wurman’s Follow The Yellow Brick Roadhit the best seller charts. I bought it and never read it. I can’t. Why? I don’t know. Since that day about 20 years ago, I’ve bought and...
View ArticleWhat We Don’t Learn from Television
Television promised to revolutionize the world. It did. If 500 channels of mediocrity is a revolution. What happened? Lowest. Common. Denominator. The path of least resistance. The original promise of...
View ArticleTruth in Advertising
Truth in advertising, in a literal sense, doesn’t exist. Advertising exists to inform, persuade, entertain, and all with an ulterior motive to cause a specific action. To separate your money from you....
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