I just read a piece about Kobe Bryant blaming his team mates for their loss putting them down 3-1 in the abbreviated NBA playoff season. It got me to thinking about the “blame game”. Kobe missed 8 of his 10 shots in the 3rd quarter but chose not to accept responsibility for his own actions. If he had made 1 or 2 more shots the Lakers would have won. How many times do we do the same? How many times do we decide that we don’t...

Today Facebook has its IPO and a bunch of people are going to make a lot of money. Most of the insiders are selling their entire positions. GM recently announced that their $10 million annual advertising budget on FB was a waste. Something on the order of 2/3rds of FB users say they never pay attention to ads and don’t “click-through”. FB wants to own every piece of information about you and sell it to companies. Privacy is a...

I just read some census data that noted hispanic births in the US now exceed “white” births. If that is true then are Hispanics no longer a minority? A CNN article gives details about various racial groups. It appears that the bottom line is that white’s are now less than 50% of the total population and falling. At what point would the whites gain minority status and what benefits would accrue to them with that status...

Seems that the Dept of Homeland Security has decided to partner with Hollywood to add a new warning to DVD’s telling you NOT to copy them or share them. Wow…it’s so nice to know that Homeland Security has nothing better to do than shield us from what they appear to think are Copyright Terrorists! Given the current administrations funding raising success with Hollywood is it any surprise that Homeland Security is now an...

I’m trying to figure out why people would re-elect someone who has failed to delivery on their promises and seems bent on growing government while spending more money than any president in history? Do people actually read, study and consider the facts? Whether one agrees with him on a specific issue let’s look at some of the larger promises and the outcome 3 1/2 years after he was elected: (Note he made 506 promises)   Obama...

Say it isn’t true. This past week several news sources claimed that 86 million people have stopped looking for work. Why? They are discouraged? They are fed up? They are tired? They are depressed? If we included those 86 million people in the “potential” work force then what would the unemployment rate really be? (You know that once a person says they are not looking for work they are removed from the pool of workers and thus...

Over the course of time I’ve sensed that the number of commercials per 1/2 hour/hour of commercial TV has increased. I did some digging and others have quantified the change. In the early days of TV (50′s and 60′s) there were 2-3 minutes per 1/2 hour of ~5 min per hour. Fast forward to 2012 and each 1/2 hour is ~8-10 minutes and an hour show is ~18-20 minutes. Introduction of DVR’s gives people the ability to FF through...