I have tried very hard to avoid much of the hoopla over the life, death, and the world’s reaction to Michael Jackson. It has been difficult with wall-to-wall media coverage by the “straight” media like newspapers and magazines, along with the tabloids and television networks. And, I wasn’t particularly sad about it other than the […]

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There are just so many Michael Jackson stories flying around. There’s more press about the singer than he’s had since his child molestation case. Here are my thought on the latest: • The people that live around Neverland Ranch will never let it turn into Graceland West. They already nixed allowing him to be buried […]

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Maybe it’s the “dumbing down” of America, but the second Transformers film raked in the second most money in a five day opening week: $201.1 million, second only to a much better film “The Dark Knight.” All this occurred DESPITE almost universally bad reviews. What does this mean? Are Americans too stupid to recognize a […]

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I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know who Michael Jackson was. It was certainly before the age of 9, when the Jackson 5 put out their first single. To those of us who are around the same age (Jackson was a little less than 1½ years older than I), he was the local […]

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There are television shows that you watch because they are good. Some you watch because they are well written. Others because the show is a geek show – the broadcast version of a train wreck – you don’t want to look; you’re embarrassed to look; but you have to look. “The Jerry Springer Show” is […]

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The worst director in the world, Michael Bay, was quoted on imdb.com saying that the upcoming “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will be his last Transformers movie because he has “had enough” of making big budget blockbusters. Bay directed the 2007 original film and also directed this summer’s sequel. There has always been rumor that […]

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Let this be an open note to all those who work for, or preferably run, non-for-profit institutions: You are cutting off your noses to spite your faces in terms of giving. We all know that we are in the middle of a worldwide economic recession the likes of which not seen in decades. We also […]

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