Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 8th, 2009 |
No CommentsNow this is a stimulus package we can all get behind. Proving that time spent in a teacher’s college equips you for just about any job up to and including cleaning up behind the elephants at the circus, a Fulton County, Georgia high school and middle school will pay (bribe) students the princely sum of 8 bucks an hour to, you know, LEARN.
Where was this program when I was in high school? If it’d been in place back then, I can guaran-damn-tee you I’d have put at least an extra...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 7th, 2009 |
No CommentsShowing yet again how totally uncommitted about deadlines at least two of the three branches of our government can be, officials recently announced a delay in the much-anticipated switchover to one-hundred percent digital television signal transmission, which was scheduled for this coming February 17th but which has now been pushed back until at least June 12th of this year. The delay, championed by the new Obama administration, also had many fans among a certain clientele in the Congress (Democrats,...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 7th, 2009 |
No CommentsI was browsing through the CNN.com website the other day when I stumbled across one of Jack Cafferty’s “Cafferty Files” blog posts. It revolved around the state of the newspaper industry in America these days, and the question he posed to his readership was how important they felt it to be to “save America’s newspapers.” First of all, I didn’t know there was a Sierra Club-type movement afoot to make a protected species out of what appears to be a creaky...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 6th, 2009 |
No CommentsProving yet again that some people just can’t let the recent presidential election go, former Bush Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who used to be known for his public discretion and reticence to say anything controversial within earshot of a reporter or television camera, recently went out of his way to criticize Barack Obama for going without a coat and tie in the Oval Office. Saying that being properly clothed was in keeping with the idea there should be a White House “dress code of respect,”...
Posted by Scott Michaels on 02 6th, 2009 |
1 CommentI’ve been reading quite a few op-ed articles about Michael Phelps, America’s swimming
wunderkind from the ‘08 Beijing Olympic Games. Recently, he was shown in a photo, which appears to have been snapped on a cell phone camera, taking a deep drag of marijuana smoke from that ubiquitous piece of teen paraphernalia affectionately known as “the bong pipe.” Now, any fan of the Jeff Spicoli character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High or those lovable stoners from the movie “Dazed...
