January 29, 2010
Filed under: Limerick Poems — @ 3:00 am
Here’s a little something different. All that Apple worship got my creative juices up so let’s try a little prose. I hope you enjoy!
Our Father who art in Cupertino,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy products come,
Thy marketing be done,
In Best Buy as it is in Walmart.
Give us this day a new ‘i’ something.
And forgive us our Zune and Windows,
As we forgive Microsoft.
And lead us not into an open architecture,
But deliver us from Google.
For thine is the iPhone, the iMac and iPod for ever.
Amen.
January 28, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
And the answer is…an iPad! Glad that’s finally over. Now the Apple minions can go back to the blogs and resume their online chanting. I’m not necessarily a critic but I’m just not sure who needs these things. Then again, I didn’t think people needed 80,000 apps on their phone! Build it and they will come…Apple seems like the only company that’s able to pull this off.
Is the iPad truly that great?
I’m sure we’ll get lots of debate.
But from where I’m sitting
The description most fitting
Is an iPhone that put on some weight.
January 27, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
The Supreme Court dropped the ball on this one. Allowing corporations unlimited spending in elections is ridiculous in the extreme. People talk as if corporations are people and deserve free speech. Unfortunately, that’s how they’re viewed by the law. However, a quick look under the covers and you’ll see soulless entities who neither take nor accept any responsibility for their actions. Combine this with a gullible American public and we’re liable to elect someone like George Bush. Oops…maybe this won’t change anything after all.
The Supreme Count has fumbled the ball
Allowing corporations to give it their all.
With little reflection
You’ll see an election
Can now become a cash free-for-all.
January 26, 2010
Filed under: Sports — @ 3:00 am
It’s cinderella time for the New Orleans Saints. Enjoy the party! I remember the first time my Denver Broncos went to the Superbowl after years and years of losing seasons. You feel a rush of excitement and a sense of relief all at the same time. We’ve joined the club…we’ve arrived. Of course we lost the Superbowl to Dallas who had been there many times before but no matter. The Broncos went on to keep winning and finally got that first Superbowl victory. We won’t know how this one plays out for another two weeks but either way, the New Orleans Saints have crossed a threshold. Savor the moment. I wish them the best of luck…they’re gonna need it!
New Orleans came away with a win
As poor Brett took it hard on the chin.
With a Super Bowl coming
The fans will be humming
“When the Saints Go (at last) Marching In’.
January 25, 2010
Filed under: Lifestyle — @ 3:00 am
Thanks to the dedicated work from this group of scientists we now know that sitting too long is not healthy. Duh! I’d like to believe I could whip myself into shape by sitting on my ass but even I know that doesn’t work. Of course there are lots on infomercials that tell me I can but then again…they’re infomercials. Now we have a group of scientists stating the obvious. Maybe if they try real hard they can invent the wheel!
Cholesterol, tobacco and fat
Are things that we need to combat.
But ’sitting’ to long
Doesn’t make you grow strong?
I don’t need to be told to know that!
January 22, 2010
Filed under: Entertainment — @ 3:00 am
Once the dust settles, we’ll be right back where we started with Jay Leno and the Tonight show. NBC can’t figure out what went wrong with his new show. They think it was the earlier time slot. Wrong…the show was missing the desk! Having Jay and the guest sitting in those butt ugly chairs like they were in my living room was a non-starter. There was nothing to lean on, bounce a pencil or hold a coffee cup. So instead of spending a few hundred dollars on a new desk, the brass at NBC buy-out Conan O’Brian for $45 million to get his desk. Needless to say, these guys are not the ’sharpest pencils in the box’.
NBC has been slogging away
To get back the old time slot for Jay.
You can have what you will
For forty-five mil.
That’s the size of Conan’s payday
January 21, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
The N.Y. Times says it will be charging for some of its content next year. I have no problem with that if the cost is reasonable. I think we need good solid news organizations as relying on blogs for news is the equivalent of listening to talk radio. That said, I’ve experienced old line newspapers that still try to charge outlandish subscription prices. When industries undergo dramatic change, most of the old guard fail to make the jump. They’re like the old lady in the infomercial “help…I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”.
At first look it may sound too greedy
But to many news sites are seedy.
If charging a fee
Be the best you can be
Or you’ll find that we’re not all that needy.
January 20, 2010
Filed under: Investing — @ 3:00 am
I keep telling you, China is the enemy to worry about…not some Islamic terrorist. They have the ability to seriously disrupt the fabric of our economy. Fortunately, it will disrupt theirs as well. It’s the capitalist equivalent of the nuclear standoff. Google is threatening to leave but I doubt they will. “Money talks and bullshit walks”. In a large corporation, human rights and censorship are bullshit if you show ‘em the money.
In China there’s no way to appease
Their leaders who do what they please.
Will their spying and hacking
Send Google packing
Or just get them down on their knees.
January 19, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
Why are we enlisting the help of Georg W. Bush for Haiti relief? Didn’t he demonstrate his glaring lack of skill with the Katrina flood? Why don’t we just ask bankers to help fix the mortgage mess…oh yeah…we did! We love people with titles regardless of how they used them in the past. I’m sure he’s just being used as a famous face to put in front of the cameras but the irony was too hard to resist. Now if we could just get these banking bozos to fade into obscurity like Bush then we may have a chance to fix this thing. Not likely.
Poor Haiti has nothing like FEMA
So George Bush will proffer the arena,
To use all the skill
He acquired on the ‘hill’
In response to the mess from Katrina.
January 15, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
Here’s the problem with Islam…clerics. They’re the equivalent of priests back in the days of the Inquisition. Too much power, too much dogma and too many innocent people caught in their web of arbitrary lies. Western civilization finally got wise and ‘defrocked’ them. Arab society has not figured out how to do this…yet. It won’t be easy. Men who hold power, religious or otherwise, don’t give it up easily.
The trouble with Islam is Clerics
Whose goal is to foster hysterics.
Threaten their power
And then watch them cower
And inflame other men to barbarics.
January 14, 2010
Filed under: Sports — @ 3:00 am
The latest interview with Mark McGwire, the baseball slugger, was filled with tears and remorse…several years after he denied any wrong doing. The most disturbing part, however, was his lack of acknowledgment about the steroids impact on his performance. He credited a ‘higher power’. He was high alright (or ‘juiced’ as they say). Either way, his accomplishments are forever tarnished. He may still be in denial but the rest of us are under no such delusions.
It was tough to listen to McGwire
Whose drug use showed him a liar.
With his records on trial
He’s still in denial
And his claim to fame stuck in the mire.
January 13, 2010
Filed under: Politics — @ 3:00 am
I think Sarah Palin and Fox News are made for each other. They both pander to the conservative ‘fluff nuts’ who think anyone who’s anti-abortion is qualified to run the country. You’d think the Republicans would offer up someone with an ounce of intelligence but I’m beginning to think they’d vote for a Rhesus Monkey if it would get them back in the White House. Then all we need is Dick Cheney as Vice President and we’re right back where we started.
Sarah Palin is back in the news
Seems Fox will air anyone’s views.
They’re culling the best
With this arduous test,
“Can they chew gum and tie their own shoes?”
January 12, 2010
Filed under: Entertainment — @ 3:00 am
News flash! Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. So much for that show! Simon’s opinion was all that mattered. You could see it in the contestants and the audience. Lots of chatter until time for Simon to speak then all went quiet to hear his opinion. The rest of the judges are stuff and fluff. No worries though. It will all migrate to his new X-Factor show because, let’s face it, we can’t get enough of tone deaf people who are clueless to their own lack of talent.
The news struck with a force that was tidal
As the action being almost homicidal,
‘Cause the show can’t go on
When the catalyst is gone.
It’s simple, Simon says he’ll leave Idol.
January 11, 2010
Filed under: Lifestyle — @ 3:00 am
Good column about how Religion treats women i.e. poorly. It’s almost as if these religious tomes were written a hundred years ago. Wait…they were written even longer ago that that! So what happens when we all follow the ideals and moral values of people from the 4th century and pretend we haven’t learned a thing? Voila…religious dogma…all the answers without all those pesky questions.
Religion, though thought an adviser
Instead is much more like a miser.
Holding to scripture
Despite the wrong picture,
It’s older but not any wiser.
January 8, 2010
Filed under: Events — @ 3:00 am
The Japanese are knocking heads again with the Sea Sheperds near Antarctica. I don’t understand the fixation the Japanese have with whale meat. These are magnificent creatures with no economic value that cannot be replaced by something else. We almost hunted them to extinction but have now seen the folly of our ways…except in Japan. I’m not usually prone to such sentimentality but this is completely unnecessary. Here’s my idea to save the whales…stop buying Toyotas and Playstations. I bet that would change their diet in a hurry.
They Japanese flaunt and besmirch
The rest of the world as they lurch,
Out with their fleet
To harvest whale meat.
It’s a sham in the name of research.
In Japan they have skillfully beat
The whaling ban so that their fleet
Can kill legally,
But all will agree
They’re ‘researching’ the taste of the meat.
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