In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• We muster all this fuss and media attention over a gambling endeavor, PowerBall, and we can’t generate even a tenth of that for the decrepit nature and outdated policies of inner city schools? Are we simply raising kids with the hope that someday they’ll hit a zillion-to-one shot?
• Say what you want about Ted Cruz, he’s the first person to put The Donald in his place in public, and brilliantly so, in last night’s debate.
• The “great” thing about Amazon is that EVERYONE can claim they have some kind of best selling book in some category all the time. Of course, that debases the claim because everybody hears it every day.
• I love photos of empty conference rooms where someone is going to speak the next day. If you’re a professional speaker, that’s your job! What’s the big wooo? Should bus drivers take pictures of their route or doctors of their patients? Get over yourself.
• “Comedians” who simply string together expletives aren’t funny and aren’t bright, and the people who pay to sit there and laugh at them are even dumber. Cable TV has exposed a very ugly phenomenon: laughing at nothing more than profanity.
• Viola Davis is hailed (especially here in Rhode Island, her home) as the second coming of Meryl Streep, but in “How to Get Away with Murder” she simply chews the scenery in every program, emoting all over the place and hamming it up.
• The song from the great play Avenue Q, “The Internet Was Made For Porn,” certainly seems more like a documentary than a satire.
• No one can invent a way to stop the Indian SEO spammers and the Nigerian money crooks from hitting our in boxes daily? Really?
• The Royal Bank of Scotland has “predicted” doom and gloom in the economy. The Royal Bank of Scotland nearly went bankrupt, is a horribly run institution, and its local entity, Citizens Bank, has the worst customer service at the corporate level in this country. Who on earth would listen to that kind of source?
© Alan Weiss 2016
