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Wed March 10 2010 From Visual Science Laboratory, March 8 2010 First up: "Live fast and die quicker." As Americans we seem to think that living brutal, jam packed 18 hour days is a smart, productive and reasonable way to live. But as my friend the cardiologist says, "The faster you live the quicker you die."…
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Tuesday March 2 2010 Without money, how would we keep score? Link to trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPCSAAtyLW8
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Monday March 1 2010 We made the observation that Facebook is all bout individuals. As the bear market intensifies, people will exclude others and turn inward. We see this is union demands for salaries and benefits that has people rioting in Greece. Now Congress is toying with granting 'tribes to be determined' in Hawaii their…
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Monday Feb 22 2010 While legislation was passed in the 1960s changing voting and other laws, it took a while to change attitudes. No doubt the admission of black athletes to major sports, which really took off, had a lot to do with that. But, media watcher that I am, it seems to me there…
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Monday Feb 22 2010 Does anyone go back on the blog? Let's see, try the archive for June 27, 2007. Any comments?
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Sunday Feb 21 2010 I had a post on the Austin airplane attack yesterday. Update, Shane Hill, has 20% burns and is now being treated at local Brooke Army Burn Center, let's hope for the best for this unfortunate victim of terrorism. Alexander Haig died this weekend. David Halberstam included Haig in his book the…
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Sat Feb 20 2010 John Fogerty, Bad Moon Rising I started writing about the downturn in mood in 2008 when the movie Dark Knight did $500 M gross, there was a tip off. Recently we had a Major kill several soldiers at Fort Hood, an Alabama college professor killed three other faculty members and wounded…
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Thursday Feb 18 2010 From October 1972 thru April 1973 I was in a training school at a Ross Perot owned company, DuPont Glore Forgan. We were on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, we strolled by the original Brown Derby on the way to class and trolled Marina Del Ray on the weekend, heady stuff…
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Monday Feb 15 2010 The 1920s like the 1990s was an era of economic expansion, and appeal to luxury interests. Then as now that took the form of expensive automobiles. Back then before the National DOT one could buy a chassis and engine from Duesenberg and have a custom coach builder construct a one of…
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Monday Feb 8 2010 Speaking of mood, what did the Super Bowl commercials tell us about the public mood? These commercials are expensive, and usually represent the very best that ad agencies can create. Indeed entire campaigns have started right here like the original Apple Mac campaign. But, frankly I found most of them to…
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