Houston is the Ottawa of the Nation

Some responses are basically obligatory...

My Parody of "The Onion"

Ed Koch and David Dinkins Annouce White House Runs

Former Democratic mayors of New York City, Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins have announced their intention to the presidency of the United States as third party candidates. When asked to comment they said in unison, "What do you mean, the rest of America?"

ectomy

They ought to call it "out-a-me." As in, "I had my tonsill-outame in 1977."

Blackstone = Boo!

There is something vaguely worrying about Blackstone IPO raising $4.13B maybe it seems like hubris or maybe it's because I still associate Blackstone with the fiasco of 1987:

Happy Father's Day

Did I change the template for this blog so that we could all enjoy the video in full size? Indeed!!!

Why the ROCKET left the Astros

The Yankees can hit. Giving up three runs in six innings is hardly steller, nor is throwing 69 strikes in 109 pitches. It's not bad, but this isn't the same Rodger Clemens who was let down by the '86 BoSox (losers). Rather its a slightly order Rocket who was let down by the 2005 Astros.

The Rocket needs a team that can hit. Fans that venerate you are great, but Houston will still venerate him after he retires. Yankees fans are special. They only cheer when you win and they boo as soon as you show the slightest bit of weakness.

Go Bombers. Rockets and Bombers.

NBC gets all ABCish

NBC Replaces Entertainment President Reilly in a move that smacks of ABC-like desperation (remember how ABC over-managed "8 Simple Rules")?

What irritates me about Ben Silverman is two things:

1. That should be me running NBC programming, or at least Greg Chwerchak.

2. People act like its a big mystery as to why network TV is losing its audience. Hello? Don't put shows on 6 week hiatus. Audiences want 26 consecutive without repeats. Do actors get to take off for Thanksgiving and Christmas? No... no they do not.

Ghengis is not one of the top names

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Here is a salve to soothe the anxiety that you are feeling now: Compiled statistical data.

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/babynames/

Battle at Kroeger

So there is now a Starbucks in the Randalls, Kroger, and Target(s) [both of them] near me. There is also a Starbucks in the Barnes and Noble. There are also five stand-alone Starbucks. Then there are three good free-internet coffee shops. Plus Panera. My point is: Walmart doesn't really have lower prices and their produce is bad.