| Channeling Suze Orman
I was near the deadline for a column when I glanced at a TV screen. "The Suze Orman Show," airing on CNBC at prime time, exerted a powerful force in my hotel room. And the fate of this column was sealed.Orman made a big splash many years ago on public television — the incubating environment for her as a national phenom. With articulate calls for intelligent self-determination of one's own financial future, she is a master of the long form. Humor and dramatic cadences punch up the impacts of her performances. Seeing her the other night, within a matter of seconds, I realized that the jig was up. How could a mere underachieving syndicated columnist hope to withstand the blandishments and certainties of Suze Orman, bestselling author and revered eminence from the erudite bastions of PBS to the hard-boiled financial realms of General Electric's CNBC? To resist was pointless.
Production Halt on ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’
I wouldn't be surprised if he just gave up movies altogether.. I am still disappointed that they never finished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp. Now they will never be able to finish this without Heath.. and to reshoot all of his scenes would cost the studio too much! This is a tragic death that affects the lives and jobs of many… sad.. sad.. sad.. .
Can weakening U.S. economy survive current strains?
Such is the fallout from a housing meltdown that threatens to slingshot the country into a recession. The big economic question these days is whether the weakening economy will survive the strains or collapse under them. The odds have grown that the economy will slip into a recession. .
Online Opinion Poll
I struggled with the format I wanted for my 2007 retrospective. How should newspeople and bloggers quantify the "Top Ten Stories of 2007"? I could rank stories by number of posts and length: the DQ Miracle Treat Day might come out on top, followed by the TransCanada Keystone pipeline, teacher pay, and health care would probably come out on top. I could rank posts by how many comments they drew: again, teacher pay was a big draw, as well as health care, abortion (even without David's persistent efforts), and local politics (remember the new gym?). I could rank posts by how often they drew Google searches: alas, the biggest non-story of the year, Shawn Cable, would win that one hands down, although lately the Lakota treaty withdrawal has been topping the searches. Perhaps later -- heck, perhaps as a side project in my doctoral studies! -- I'll do a quantitative analysis of the 640 posts and hundreds more comments.
3 Cents Blog
Even if Michael is convicted, he did not kill, rob or hurt anyone. He is not selling drugs or shooting people. I don't think that it is right to shoot, beat, shock or hurt an animal just for the amusemen,t but I am tired of the country being run by special interest groups such as PETA. An animal is not a human, and we should stop treating them as if they are more important than people. The punishment should fit the crime.
He should be forced to take classes on how to treat animals, pay at least a $2 million fine to be shared among animal shelters here in Virginia, and finally some type of community service involving speaking to kids about why it is wrong to force dogs or any animals to fight for their amusement. - James, Suffolk
- One, I do not feel the least bit sorry for him (Vick).
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