WHEN SPORT BECOMES BUSINESS
The recent NFL draft reminded me sport is definitely not entertainment or a recreational pastime anymore, it is a business. Fancy twenty-one year olds being signed up for $50 million contracts and society thinks that is quite okay. Many just answer, “Man, this is America. It is simply capitalism at work!” This disease has spread [...]
I ACTUALLY OCCASIONALLY ENJOY A REALLY GOOD LAUGH
As one of the last subscribers to the L.A. Times, everyday I sometimes find one or two articles informative and fun to read. After watching the start of the L.A. Marathon last Sunday, the cameras tuned into L.A.’s number one scammer chatting up the biggest Cheshire cat of American politics. The two show ponies were [...]
MURDOCH IS BREEDING A LUNATIC FRINGE OF COMMENTATORS
Unfortunately I am an MSNBC (particularly Rachel Maddow) fan so I haven’t devoted much time to watching Fox Cable for at least three years, therefore my comments are definitely my opinion as opposed to scientific fact. I have watched Rupert Murdoch turn the media upside down for the last thirty years. He has transformed what [...]
IS IT RUPERT MURDOCH OR IS IT AMERICA THAT HAS GONE NUTS?
The other day Murdoch was complaining that the Internet was stealing away readers by plagiarizing the news from the print and television media. What news? Listen here Murdoch, you single handedly achieved something thirty years ago that was considered impossible; you’ve trashed the news and took away any intellectual stimulus it once achieved, by moving [...]






