Memo to Stephen F. Cooper: Saving MGM
Dear Mr. Cooper: Some might say now is the time for MGM to stay conservative if it hopes to survive. That’s rubbish. Turnaround situations in the entertainment industry require bold vision and...
View ArticleCivility, MTV and Prayer to the devil
Congress has censored the gentleman (?) who interrupted the President’s speech last week by shouting Liar. Good for them. One of the most terrible things about politics during the Bush administration...
View ArticleBad Timing In Missile Defense Decision
So President Obama is scrapping the Bush “Missile Defense program” that was planned to protect Europe from Iran. Yes, I know. There is some question if the missile defense was any good against the...
View ArticleWorld Acceptance Has the Goods, Citron Doesn’t
When will Andrew Left of Citron Research get it? If he wants to criticize a company, then he should do so legitimately. His latest screed, packed with even more manure than his previous 3-part smear on...
View ArticleHow’s this for Renault’s Corporate Social Responsibility?
 When in 2002 the Benetton Formula One team morphed into Renault it was clear that what the French car giant was seeking to do was to secure brand value from the move, in return, of course, for...
View ArticleHey, Dave, it’s the Law…Sexual Harassment is Illegal
Hippocrates (or the Pythagoran writer of the oath) was well aware that patients or their caretakers frequently “fall in love” with their physicians and openly express the desire for an affair. But...
View ArticleHannah Montana: Teaching Family Values or Materialism?
Ah, how quickly the grandchildren grow up. The grandsons have changed from computer game freaks to college geeks, and the granddaughters are now budding teenagers, on the threshold of being a woman. In...
View ArticleAre the Elections a Warning Signs from Blue Dog Democrats?
Two governorships have fallen to Republicans, if the headlines have it right. Yet most of the pundits are saying this is not a sign of disenchantment with the Congress and the President, but only local...
View ArticleBread, Pigeons and the Hadron Collider.
In science, there are all sorts of gossip that tweak the infallibility of scientists. For example, the discovery of the “big bang” was postponed until they cleaned the antennae of Pigeon poop, and...
View ArticleShell shoots itself in the foot on Remembrance Day
The real question to ask about Shell’s unbelievably crass decision not to allow the sale of poppies at their petrol stations this year is at what level the call as made. Ignore the statement from...
View ArticleIgnoring PC Terrorists in the US
Quick. Name the most dangerous terrorist organization in the US, organizations that are responsible for 47 of the53 most destructive terrorist attacks in the US. Muslims? No. Right wing Militias? No....
View ArticleMammography Guidelines are a Preview of Cost Control
When I was working as a physician in the US, our Federal clinic’s policy was to order mammograms on all women starting at age 4o. Why was this important? Because there is some indications that...
View ArticleThe “We” Factor: when Journalists Assume They are Us
Time magazine has an article about overprotective parents. The Title is appropriate: The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting Fair enough. My problem is how the article is framed: …we just wanted...
View ArticleDangerous Clamshell Packaging!
We all know about the problem. You buy a nice item, usually an electronic gizmo but sometimes a toy, and you can’t open it. Knives won’t cut it, and you need sharp heavy duty scissors to cut it open....
View ArticleThe Breastfeeding Madonna
Those Medieval painters were a bit less puritanical than we moderns: A common motif in paintings was the Madonna Les Latte: the Virgin Mother breastfeeding the baby Jesus. Back in those days, if a...
View ArticleHow the Brown Win Could energize Blue Dog Democrats
The right wing blogosphere is in ecstasy about a Republican upset for the Senate seat in Massachusetts. But the real news is HOW Scott Brown won the Senate seat in “Blue state” Massachusetts. How?...
View Article“Blog Away!” to Expose Hypocrisy of Olympics Sponsors Advises Vancouver...
Shame the sponsors. That sums up the remedy advised by Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee member and Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem on Wednesday Jan. 13, after she was briefed at City Hall on...
View ArticleCopyright cops vs kids, while the professionals stay in business
When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use...
View ArticleThe Biggest Religious Story Ever Ignored
The story carries the headline: France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils Except the “Catholic Church” did no such thing. The Bishop in charge of “interreligious dialogue” in France made a...
View ArticleGlobal Warming is Like the Plagues of Egypt?
The pseudo religious nonsense by popular clergy is enough to make an agnostic out of me. Doesn’t matter if it is the “we’re all gonna die if gays get rights” on the right or the “we’re all gonna die if...
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