Over the past 10 days or so, we see “reports” about the safety of small cars. Like this “opinion” of wall street journal, where they conclude that small cars are inherently unsafe. WSJ did a follow up with this article.
There are two arguements against this idiotic arguement, one satirize their point of view by taking [...]
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Small car collision statistics: Idiotic arguments
Posted in Media, tagged automobile safety, small car safety, wall street journal, WSJ on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What does the “Singing Sensation” Susan Boyle tell us about our Society?
Posted in Incidental-musing, Media, tagged ageism, anti-rural sentiment, britain's got talent, Bryan Williams on Susan Boyle, Media, reality TV, Simon Cowell, societal descrimination, Susan Boyle on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would be surprised if you have not yet heard or listened to Susan Boyle considering the saturation coverage this singing sensation has recieved. On the off chance that you haven’t, here it is…
You would agree that she has exceptional voice and unusual vocal range and she is evidently well trained. [...]
Duplicity: Funny and intelligent; Unusual for a movie
Posted in Media, Movies, tagged Clive Owen, Duplicity Movie, Julia Roberts, Michael Clayton, Movie reviews, Movies, Tony Gilroy on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this movie a couple of weeks back but did not immediately write my review, since too often, the initial impression movies such as this make, pale with time. In this case, iam happy to report, time doesn’t do much damage.Tony Gilroy has already proved his abilities with the “bourne” movies and ofcourse with [...]
Killer satire on the daily show
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Great Quotes, Investment, Legislation, Media, Satire, Stockmarket on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best daily show episodes i saw…
Here it is and it is a must watch!!!!!!
Here is the best quote of this entire show:
“Isn’t the dow jones industrial average, just a short twitch numerical representation, of a bunch of guesses, about other people’s assumptions, about the financial well being of, an arbitrarily chosen group [...]
Media in general and CNBC crowd in particular – You Know Who’s…
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Media, Stockmarket, tagged CNBC, Economy, financial media, Global Economy, Global Recession, US Economy on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you were watching CNBC or even follow MSNBC, you would have noticed this idiotic rant from one of CNBC’s so called market analysts.
Earlier we had Jim Cramer had a similar rant.
Notice how in the earlier instance, jim cramer was ranting about Ben Bernanke was doing all [...]
Interesting program on PBS
Posted in Economy, Financial Markets, Legislation, Media, tagged Financial Markets, Global Economy, Government intervention, stock markets, US Economy on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Its called “Inside the meltdown” and full of left-liberal pundits, but it is a pretty good description of what went on during those crucial months last year.
Here it is…
American recovery and reinvestment plan…. Whatever!
Posted in Economy, Energy technology, Environment, Environmentalism, Financial Markets, Incidental-musing, Investment, Legislation, Media, Stockmarket, Technology, Thought-Trails, tagged American recovery and reinvestment plan, Broadband internet access, Conservative Economists, Depression, Economic Depression, Financial Markets, Global depression, Global Economy, Global Recession, Green Energy, High speed rail roads in US, House, Hybrid cars, John Kenneth Galbraith, Liberal Economists, Main Street, National Power grid, Senate, stock markets, Tax breaks, Tax cuts, US Economy, US House of representatives, US Infrastructure, US Politics, US recession, US Senate, world economy on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
House passes the granduosly named American recovery and reinvestment plan, and, it is irrelevant at this point. For this plan is not far sighted enough nor does it change the game in any way. But don’t blame the president for this, for he was just working with in the boundaries of consitution. Fact is this [...]
Tim Russert will be missed
Posted in Media, tagged journalism, Media, Meet the press, Tim Russert on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you all probably know by now, Tim Russert is dead, and there is no doubt he will be missed.
I have been a viewer of Tim Russert, on “Meet the Press”, for a short time now and was amazed at the respect he was shown by all his guests. Watching the show, it was clear [...]
A poor case of financial journalism by NYTimes
Posted in Financial Markets, Investment, Media, Stockmarket, tagged Conventional wisdom, financial journalism, financial media, Foiled Again, NYTimes on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This isn’t the kind of financial journalism i expect from nytimes. Today, they have an article titled “Conventional Wisdom, Foiled Again“. The article refers to a study conducted by a couple of professors who find that those stocks which have been dropped from Russel 2000 index tend to perform better then their replacement over a [...]
