Adam Lambert favored to win Idol
I’ll say this. I’m a Kris fan. I can’t remember his last name at the moment, but you know the guy who plays guitar and has a crooked mouth when he hits the big notes? I like his arrangements and think he’s very talented (plays piano and guitar). Lambert weirds me out a bit with the makeup, nail polish and stuck-out tongue. Can’t deny his talent. But Kris is more my speed.
Facebook draws 200m people with social gaming
Anybody participate in facebook games? Apparently texas hold’em and an interactive pet “game” are ranked the highest. I must admit I don’t like them. (Not a moral judgment). Just think they’re annoying and a waste of time for me. This social gaming is said to have a much bigger draw than other online gaming because you’re playing with people you actually know instead of strangers. This ring true for anyone?
Tony Blair set to be President of the EU?
Wouldn’t that just torque Gordan Brown beyond words? But it looks like Brown is ready to along with it. He apparently recognizes the importance of having a Brit in that seat. Country first I guess. Or is it EU first? I’m confused now.
Run Away Banks, Run Away!
Tim Geithner reserves the right to oust bank execs from banks requiring exceptional help from the gov’t. I think he also said that some banks are too big and important to allow to fail. So what if a bank refuses gov’t help, but is one of those deemed “too big to fail”? Does the gov’t “help” them against their wishes? Then oust whoever they want?
If I were a bank exec, I would, in the words of Monty Python, “Run away, run away!”
A Nuclear Irony
Tomasky points out the jolting irony that on the day Pres. Obama delivers a speech in Prague about a post-nuclear world, North Korea launches a rocket soaring over Japan, that may have the potential to send a nuclear warhead to Alaska. He goes on to remind us that places like North Korea, Iran, and many others don’t care who our president is. To them Obama isn’t “change,” he’s just an American (read: enemy).
Unions Ensure the Death of the Newspaper
I’m not saddened by the death of the newspaper. I don’t read them. I get all my news online. And I’m not nostalgic about them, because I’m too young. So, it’s easy for me to scratch my head when I read articles like this. Unions won’t make concessions with newspaper companies and thereby ensure their complete collapse. As has already happened all over the country. Papers, like the Boston Globe, are being totally subsidized in order to pay the union employees. But rather than cut all the superfluous staff and run the paper on a shoestring with minimal employees, they will shut the whole thing down.
I suppose it’s going to happen eventually anyway, the unions unwillingness to cooperate just ensure it and speed it up. I say, go read the Drudge Report.
Well, this makes me a little sad because our dog Ginger runs out and brings in the newspaper every morning. Then she gets a little treat.
I think the only reason we still subscribe to the paper anymore is so that Ginger will have a job.
Also, one of my first jobs, after a summer of busing tables at the Ponderosa, was cleaning offices for a newspaper. Then I got to do clerical work there. After teaching elementary school for several years, I took a break from full time work to raise our kids and wrote freelance articles for two local newspapers.
I have appreciated newspapers, perhaps because one of my high school social studies teachers hammered into us that we just could not be informed by watching the nightly news only.
It also makes me sad to see how newspapers have changed. At one time the writers and editors seemed truly to treat everyone fairly and seemed set on publishing what was true from all angles of a story.
Now it is so obvious that what we are reading is material that has been filtered through the world views of individuals. In that sense, I’m not sorry to see newspapers go, although journalists will just spin their stories through other forms of media.
I guess I’m glad that I saved a few stacks of special papers for keepsakes and took a few pictures of Ginger collecting the newspaper…
And have a very blessed Easter!
Thanks for hosting a blog that makes us all think hard at times and smile at others. I guess sometimes we think hard AND smile, too:-)
Chris- thanks for your commenting. I always appreciate your perspective and willingness to engage.
I hope your Easter is filled with meditating on and loving the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.