I watched the clip of the Edwards’ press conference on the news and I then suffered through the gushing press coverage. I mean, I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards because she has terminal cancer and she has young kids who will be without a mother. That sucks and it’s difficult to make fun of her husband […]
Written by randomfool on March 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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Unlike most of America, I have never seem American Idol and I don’t really feel like I have missed anything. There is nothing about the concept that is interesting at all to me. The American public, like most crowds, is usually wrong and the fact that people who watch contests on TV voted for one […]
Written by randomfool on March 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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It’s been a while since I watched Letterman on any regular basis but, among the many funny bits and characters, Larry “Bud” Melman was among the most entertaining. The Melman character was one of the most random things about a very random show. Even though I haven’t seen the show in a long time, I […]
Written by randomfool on March 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Production snafus here at randomfoolishness have resulted in the last few days without posts. How fitting that I was inspired to return to my blog by the Airbus A380, the worldwide example of production snafus on the grandest scale. One of the massive airplanes landed here in Los Angeles earlier this week and while I was […]
Written by randomfool on March 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Movie ratings are ridiculous and are more of a reflection of America’s repressed personality than any sense of fair or objective labels that are useful to consumers. It’s easy to come to this conclusion after watching This Film is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America’s system for rating films. […]
Written by randomfool on March 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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Now, I’m mad. Obviously, Scooter Libby made a mistake…talking to prosecutors at all. While I absolutely do not believe that Libby should be pardoned, today’s Wall Street Journal makes a compelling case at least for prosecutorial abuse of power. The simple fact is that nobody violated the law with respect to Valerie Plame and she […]
Written by randomfool on March 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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So, Scooter takes the fall and proves, once again, that the government rarely is capable of finding anyone guilty for any actual crime but that they are very good at prosecuting people for lying to them. I’m not sure why anyone, in their right mind, would ever, ever talk to the government about anything unless […]
Written by randomfool on March 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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Since the advent of securitization as a widely available financing tool to finance mortgages, the industry that was created around it has experienced a wild boom and bust cycle. The boom of the early to mid 1990s was followed by a miserable bust, just as the dot com industry was beginning to overheat, in the late […]
Written by randomfool on March 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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I watch the Academy Award telecast every year and I am not sure why. I don’t get around to seeing most of the movies and, if I do, the movie that I usually want to win never does. Plus, the whole thing lost all credibility for me a few years ago (not that it had […]
Written by randomfool on February 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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I love a good business story and, among industries, I love stories about the airlines or about airplane manufacturing. I usually flip right to any airlne, Airbus or Boeing story in each issue of the Wall Street Journal or in BusinessWeek. So, when I saw a review of Boeing versus Airbus by John Newhouse in BusinessWeek […]
Written by randomfool on February 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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