Actress Anita Page died last Saturday. An obituary is here, and you can see some of her being brash, bold, and brassy, in The Broadway Melody of 1929, by clicking here.
One After 9/09
Happy birthday to me!
Cartoon by Charles M. Schulz, 1957
It is, of course, also my twin sister Jean’s birthday. No, we’re not identical. 😉
Fannie and Freddie Failures Succeed
Fannie and Freddie CEOs may collect millions
By Martha GraybowNEW YORK (Reuters) – The top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both losing their jobs as part of a government bailout, may get multimillion-dollar payments from the mortgage finance companies upon their exits.
I am so fed up with executives walking away from their failures with millions of dollars. This is simply unfair. We need a serious attitude change in Washington, and I promise you that John McCain is not the man to deal with out of control executive compensation.
Closing the Gates
I’ve watched the new Microsoft commercial a couple of times, and to me it falls flat. I fail to see the entertainment value of one of the world’s richest men talking about shoes with a rich comedian who’s been given $10 million to be in the commercial.
Aren’t both Gates and Seinfeld essentially retired anyway? In that context, I guess having them pal around like a couple of old men makes sense — they’ve got nothing better to do.
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What really gets me is that somehow the subtext of the commercial is supposed to be Windows Vista as a cool alternative to Mac OS X. Well, it isn’t. Click here for one reason why. Thanks to tastewar for the tip. This article explains why it’s a waste having more than 3GB of memory installed for Windows XP and Vista.
Everybody’s been wondering about Steve Jobs’ health, but does Bill Gates look all right to you in that commercial? He doesn’t look well to me. Oh, by the way, what do Gates, Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Worldwide Web) — and myself — all have in common? Well, we’re all in the computer biz, but I’m not rich and famous. We were born in 1955. Unfortunately, so were Mark David Chapman and John Hinkley, Jr.
John McCain as a ‘Peanuts’ character
A drawing by Charles M. Schulz shows how John McCain would have us see him — young and energetic, and ready to move into the White House.
Choosing Sides
I’m amused by how Republicans insisted it’s the Democrats who made an issue of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, which simply isn’t true. It’s yet another straw man they’ve set up to knock down.
The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee, mother of two, was at the RNC. She did the best job I have ever seen of getting average Republicans to consider the implications of saying that teen pregnancy is a private, family matter that shouldn’t be politicized.