Out of the Newsroom

I’ve always loved the movie “Groundhog Day”. Not just because of Bill Murray, who always makes me laugh, but because the premise of repeating the same day over and over just appeals to me. Of course we get a little real-life taste of the idea each year when we “fall back” from daylight saving time [...]

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This Sunday morning brought a phone call from a friend for some help setting up a new wireless router in her house. I really don’t mind these kind of calls from friends–except for the amount of time spent saying that it really is no trouble and please don’t think that if I say it isn’t [...]

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Is it just me, or with each day that passes does it seem more and more like the only way that the now mythic 700 Billion dollar bailout (also known in some circles as the greatest game of 3 Card Monte ever played by a Secretary of the Treasury)–the only way it will ever reach [...]

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In the post election day hangover of emotions, the euphoria of hope gives way to the soberness of what change can really be accomplished against the backdrop of what is going on here in the real world, the inevitable cold shower stings a bit as it hits our faces. A Sunday morning of reading the [...]

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Election ‘08 has officially moved into the twilight zone now. The lawyers have already air-dropped in the battleground states, and the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a decision (about voter registration irregularities in Ohio) that will impact the election, some 18 days before the polls open. (Except in those states where they have the interesting [...]

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In Hollywood, after they review something–there are the “notes”. Or better put, suggestions on how things should be changed or improved. Sometimes “the notes” are constructive, sometimes just petty. The best thing folks working on a movie or television show can hear from the big execs is “we have no notes.” Which almost never happens. [...]

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