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by alex · Published November 30, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
This week Wikileaks is once again filling the internet with previously secret, classified, or private documents, mostly having to do with US foreign policy and relations with other countries. This is sort of “classic...
news and things / RIP / Things I hate
by alex · Published November 22, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have not been a huge fan of the direction NASCAR has taken in the last few years. A number of moves by NASCAR management (such as...
Celebs / news and things / Things I hate
by alex · Published November 21, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Larry King has been sinking into irrelevancy for many years now, and he finally agreed to retire from CNN earlier this year. But like a bad smell that just won’t go away, Larry King...
Celebs / news and things / Things I hate / Weird stories
by alex · Published November 15, 2010 · Last modified February 3, 2015
When I heard that TLC was picking up Sarah Palin’s new reality show, I couldn’t help but think the timing was perfect. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, considering commentaries like this one on...
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by alex · Published October 11, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I was really surprised to see this article at That’s Racin that quotes ESPN officials as wondering where the ratings have gone for NASCAR. Based on the overnights from the last race in California...
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by alex · Published October 3, 2010 · Last modified February 3, 2015
Well, it seems that the programming people over at Spike TV woke up and realized that doubling the amount of ads is just not a very good idea. After experimenting with a new format...
I have been around the internet since before there was a “world wide web”, tube videos, or apps. My first account dates back to the early 90s, before the internet was easy to get...
Almost every generation of music has had the professional fame whore. Pretty much since media became a visual medium (the TV era), there has always been at least one attention whore running around, doing...
I was looking through my sat-tv programming guide the other day, and I have been noticing more and more channels using weird timings on their shows, with networks often seeming to want to start...
No fancy graphics or amusing pictures for this one. Each year as we arrive at September 11th, those of us in the Western world look back at the terrorist acts on that day in...
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by alex · Published August 24, 2010 · Last modified February 3, 2015
The title is what I consider to be the chant of the ignorant, the greedy, the people I nicely refer to as “generation Diss”, who disrespect anyone and everything that doesn’t give them all...
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by alex · Published August 9, 2010 · Last modified February 3, 2015
Let me start out by saying I am not a Democrat (or a Republican for that matter). I don’t have a horse in the race, and I don’t care the outcome so much. I...
Celebs / news and things / Things I like
by alex · Published June 30, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
As I mentioned back in April, it was getting clear that it was time for Larry King to Retire. While I am sure that my blog entry made not a wit of difference to...
It is said that bad things happen in threes, and this week’s RIP list pretty much sums that up. Dennis Hopper, Gary Coleman, and Rue Mcclanahan all passed away in the last few days,...
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