Fall 2012 Preview

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Mittard
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Did I miss any?

Hurricane Magnet

Opening in May. I'm there.

How low can the television networks go?

The execs at NBC are going to do something so repulsive that I won't link to it. I can't imagine what they are thinking. If you want to know, Google "Fear Factor donkey".

Debate Fatigue

There's no new ground being broken. It's the same tired re-hash. Enough already.

Just another Massachusetts politician running for president

He has no chance. Don't kid yourself. The incumbent has all of the power.

The challenger from Massachusetts is extraordinarily wealthy and cannot relate to the common man. He inherited most of his wealth and his income is primarily derived from capital gains... money that isn't taxed as ordinary income. His father did some very shady things to generate their wealth!

He's considered too liberal in much of the country, but he does say that he would like to lower taxes. Can one offset the other?

He's a lifelong member of some weird church, and many (if not most) protestants won't abide someone of his faith being president. It just isn't gonna happen.

He is good looking though, and he does have a nice head of hair. So he has that going for him. Plus he's pretty glib.

Stupid Brits

Gosh, those limeys sure are stupid.

Half of children aged between 10 and 12 do not know what a noun is or cannot identify an adverb while almost a third, 31 per cent, cannot use apostrophes correctly.

More than one in five 22 per cent could not use the correct version of 'they're', 'there' and 'their' in a sentence and more than four in 10 couldn't spell the word 'secretaries' correctly.

Which is funny. Based on the grammar I see in the comment feeds of most blogs, 50-70% of grown adult men, primarily in North America, don't know the difference between "they're", "their" and "there". They also have a hard time using the words "to" and "too" properly. What a bunch of loosers! There abuse of grammer is to much.

Has Facebook has reached that pivotal MySpace moment?

I don't know what Mark and his buddies are thinking, but the Timeline thing is really turning a lot of people off. To be blunt, it sucks. Now word has it that Facebook users have no choice. You're Timelined whether you like it or not.

It wasn't too long ago that everyone "had to be on MySpace." I wonder if Mark & Co. know this. A few tweaks here and there and the Google+ platform may be viable.

Newt Gingrich is a hypocrite!

So I keep hearing that his ex-wife is gonna drop a bombshell that will sink Newt's campaign. When the news broke yesterday I was wondering if he was a wife-beater, or a rapist, or maybe he was snorting heroin?

No, her bombshell is Newt's a horndog philanderer. Which makes him a hypocrite since he was one of the "family values" people in the 1990s. Which means... this is a non story because we already know that Newt is a horndog philanderer. Sheesh. Is there anyone who DOESN'T know this about Newt? This ain't gonna affect his campaign one iota.

But I did get a chuckle from the picture seen above that has emerged from this.

Boom/Bust

Boom:

Powered by a booming energy business, the Houston regional economy grew faster last year than any other in North America, the Brookings Institution reports.

Bust:

Our little burg feels like a glass half empty, half full right now, and you can see that reflected in the national focus on us over the past few weeks.

I still remember this. When you draw that trendline on a chart don't forget that the trend can be broken to the downside very quickly.