Things just get crazier and crazier to me. Michael Moore and Paris Hilton, admittedly not at the top of my favorite people's list, are two of the top stories this week. Poor Paris, who I think has all the attributes of a knot on a log, and Mike (laughing all the way to the bank) Moore are right in the top Yahoo News headlines today. It seems that Mike got bumped from Larry King's (don't get me started on that ding dong) show, so Paris could tell us how things went in the slammer. To add insult to injury, yesterday Mike got the door of The New York Stock Exchange slammed in his face. Apparently he failed to make arrangements to be allowed in the exchange (that has a faint odor to it also, but that is the exchange's story).
Paris is till soaking in Lysol, but Mike says that he is beginning to take things personally. You think???
29 June 2007
14 June 2007
Who Are They Kidding?
Since arrival here in the land of super size and 24/7, I have noted that the TV is inundated with talking heads. Most of them are talking about the distant presidential election and its candidates. Do they think, at this time, many of us are interested?
CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc. all are extolling the wonders of this or that person, offering critiques, wondering out loud about this or that, etc. This all done by "experts". Even people who are unannounced candidates are not spared.
Who are the beneficiaries of all this wind? Certainly, no voter is going to make a hard and fast decision today, so count them out. The people who are benefiting are the TV networks. Millions of dollars are already being spent from campaign war chests. All this goes to the networks. Knowing politicians, who thinks that a TV show has a hard time getting their mouths open? As a result, we are bombarded daily with blather on this or that possibility. So much for that. The networks rake in the dollars, and the politicians pay for and get, time to expound. We get to listen.
CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc. all are extolling the wonders of this or that person, offering critiques, wondering out loud about this or that, etc. This all done by "experts". Even people who are unannounced candidates are not spared.
Who are the beneficiaries of all this wind? Certainly, no voter is going to make a hard and fast decision today, so count them out. The people who are benefiting are the TV networks. Millions of dollars are already being spent from campaign war chests. All this goes to the networks. Knowing politicians, who thinks that a TV show has a hard time getting their mouths open? As a result, we are bombarded daily with blather on this or that possibility. So much for that. The networks rake in the dollars, and the politicians pay for and get, time to expound. We get to listen.
13 June 2007
Wouldn't You Know?
Things are getting pretty scary here now. In the last two days, I have read reports that tend to make me wonder if indeed humans are as smart as they think. When you see what a mess humans have made of the world, I suppose that it is no wonder to question that.
Elephants can hear with their feet? It seems that they can do this over long distances by pounding on the jungle floor. If that isn't amazing enough, it seems that they can also recognize each other by the sounds their feet make. If they get warnings from a reliable source, they believe them. If these warnings are from a questionable source, then they ignore them. Too bad that humans cannot always do that. If they could pull this off, all the politicians would be in another line of work.
Now, the best one for today is that cockroaches can learn things. These little beasts have been around for many centuries, so is it any wonder that they can learn? It seems that like Pavlov's dog, they can salivate when a repeatable stimulus is presented to them. If a cockroach smells an odor when being fed a sugar solution, they learn to associate this odor with feeding. Then, when some sneaky scientist turns the odor machine on but leaves off the sugar solution, they salivate. Salivate?? Who would like to be the guy who runs the saliva measurement machine? "What does your dad do?" "He runs the spit measurement laboratory." Can't you just see a cockroach pondering the theory of relativity?
Elephants can hear with their feet? It seems that they can do this over long distances by pounding on the jungle floor. If that isn't amazing enough, it seems that they can also recognize each other by the sounds their feet make. If they get warnings from a reliable source, they believe them. If these warnings are from a questionable source, then they ignore them. Too bad that humans cannot always do that. If they could pull this off, all the politicians would be in another line of work.
Now, the best one for today is that cockroaches can learn things. These little beasts have been around for many centuries, so is it any wonder that they can learn? It seems that like Pavlov's dog, they can salivate when a repeatable stimulus is presented to them. If a cockroach smells an odor when being fed a sugar solution, they learn to associate this odor with feeding. Then, when some sneaky scientist turns the odor machine on but leaves off the sugar solution, they salivate. Salivate?? Who would like to be the guy who runs the saliva measurement machine? "What does your dad do?" "He runs the spit measurement laboratory." Can't you just see a cockroach pondering the theory of relativity?
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