Weekend Reading
November 14th, 2009 7:50 pm | by John Jansen |Bloomberg sets out to conquer the journalistic world……..or so says a nearly vanquished rival.
A couple of pieces on how the Green Folks wish to rule the world.
This is way out of the realm of my typical musings. It is a piece about a philandering sports announcer who was also a philandering baseball GM. The writer tells the story of how the fellow’s career prospects are in peril on account of his multiple indiscretions, at least one of which was with an intern. What I find amusing and/or ironic is that a former President of the United States passed through a similar crucible and maintains rock star and icon status even unto this day. It just strikes me as inequitable.
And an interesting article on the US/China exchange rate imbroglio.
The FT views the Federal Reserve through the prism of the Audobon Society.
4 Responses to “Weekend Reading”
By docdan on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply
Inequitable? How about the treatment of Bob Packwood?
The feminist movement has been intellectually bankrupt for 30 years or more. With nary a peep from the feminists, l’affaire Lewinski exposed its moral bankruptcy.
By Mitch on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply
I think this paragraph says it all:
“If you’re dealing with a supreme talent you take the risk,” the network exec said. “If it’s just an average talent, and you can get the same quality act from someone else you feel secure about, it’s a no-brainer – you don’t take the risk.”
Leaving politics completely aside, Clinton is a fairly charismastic personality and has the gravitas that being a former POTUS brings. Steve Phillips was a bumbling GM of New York’s other baseball team and a pretty annoying announcer.
By John Jansen on Nov 14, 2009 | Reply
I like morally bankrupt.
By Jay on Nov 15, 2009 | Reply
Just to pile on the two-faced feminists there was this gem from a few month’s ago.
“Some of the industry’s most prominent women said they believe Polanski, who faces a sentence as low as probation and as high as 16 months in prison for pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, should be freed. ‘My personal thoughts are let the guy go,’ said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. ‘It is bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It’s crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things.’”
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/01/entertainment/et-polanski1?pg=2