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In re: Why so hard to renew?

Posted on April 04, 2008
So we live in an era where I can renew my library books merely with a mouse click (even if they are already overdue - basically stops the bleeding) yet for some reason I still end up with overdue books and massive (by library standards I don’t know) fines...

In re: Shouldn?t he know this?

Posted on March 21, 2008
One of the big plus factors behind McCain’s in the upcoming presidential election is his supposed expertise on foreign affairs and knowledge from top secret senate briefings over the years. Not trying to be ticky-tacky here but I must say I was a bit concerned when recently in a press conference Joe Lieberman corrects [...

In re: Is $400 million for a helicopter democratic?

Posted on March 19, 2008
We live in a democracy that has changed a lot, with the addition of scores of security measures to protect our president at a huge cost.  As we became world policeman we invited more than domestic malcontents to make the president and his entourage a target...

In re: Columbus No. 1 ?Up-And-Coming Tech City?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Forbes Magazine has published a list of the Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities and Columbus, Ohio of all places tops out the list at number one.  Why you say?  “No. 1: Columbus, Ohio. In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio’s largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U...

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In re: Ohio vs. NAFTA

Posted on March 12, 2008
The campaign has brought up (for Democrats at least) strong language against NAFTA (although you can’t get Hillary or Barrack to say they’d pull out) they do say that they would use the power to pull out to re-negotiate it with Canada and Mexico to include fairer terms (does Canada have a competitive advantage because [...

In re: Its 3am. Reading into this a bit too much?

Posted on March 11, 2008
You probably know about the White House phone call ad that Hillary Clinton put out prior to winning the Ohio and Texas primaries. Many people have been debating the ad (I thought the one on Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty good). Anyway, most people will agree that it is a negative [...

In re: Why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers?

Posted on March 10, 2008
An interesting case from the other side of the pond (fictional mind you) from column of the late Miles Kingston, humor columnist for the Independent (via Volkoh conspiracy blog) : “A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more than [...

In re: Why We Fight

Posted on March 10, 2008
” We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes...

In re: Could the Indians AAA be coming to Columbus?

Posted on March 02, 2008
As a Indians fan I have been thrilled by the way Buffalo has been run as a AAA affiliate.  The Indians over the last 15 years have really benefited by an amazing farm system thats crown jewel has been the Bisons.  Columbus has the county owned Clippers whose old stadium (current stadium for one more [...

In re: Jarvik out as Lipitor Pitchman

Posted on February 27, 2008
If you remember my post on Dr. Robert Jarvik and RX advertising (In re: Rx advertising - Liptor and Dr. Jarvik) you’ll recall that he was mostly a celeb indorser of sorts and that his medical creditenals were dubious at best.  Well now in the wake of an investigation into the advertising by the House Energy [...

In re: Secret Shopping for CR

Posted on February 27, 2008
“He enters the supermarket carrying a Styrofoam cooler full of dry ice (to keep the ice cream cold), a pair of gloves (to keep his fingers warm), and a flashlight (to help him see the inkless indentations on the bottom of each container that show where and when it was manufactured)...

In re: Cultural Diplomacy

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Philharmonic accepted the North’s invitation to play last year with the encouragement of the U.S. government at a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff involving the two countries. … Ahead of their arrival, North Korea was even tearing down the anti-American posters that line the streets of Pyongyang, Mehta said Sunday, citing [...

In re: From Cleveland the last Democratic debate?

Posted on February 26, 2008
Tonight at Cleveland State University Clinton and Obama lace up their gloves for what might be their last debate.  While I gotta be honest and say I have really tuned out of the debates until last week when I watched some of the Texas one.  To be fair I’ve always thought that having lots of [...

In re: Pavlik defends Youngstown

Posted on February 17, 2008
If you don’t know who Kelly Pavlik is your either not a boxing fan (highly likely in our era) or your not from Ohio where Pavlik has a cultlike following especially in his native Youngstown in Northeast Ohio where he is from and has remained. His surprising rise to boxing greatness is only slightly [...

In re: High Cost of Free Parking

Posted on February 15, 2008
I finished up Pillars of the Earth the other day and instead of starting in on another page turner (Pillars was just such a book, despite the topic of being about the building of a cathedral the book moves really fast and you get pretty taken into the back stabbing, the rivalries, and the crazy [...

In re: EPL going global

Posted on February 08, 2008
Despite fan opposition already (domestic) and some manager opposition its looking likely that in three years time the English Premier League will be hosting 10 matches (a whole extra 39th round) overseas.  Larger in scope then the NFLs who has already started the trend with a regular season match being held in London and another [...

In re: Finally on to the important stuff

Posted on February 08, 2008
Roger Clemens is testifying about his steroid use (or supposed lack of), Arlen Specter wants an investigation into why the NFL allowed the Patriots to destroy evidence of their cheating (see Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think), and Sen...

In re: Feburary Warm

Posted on February 06, 2008
Out last night walking the dog in just a light rain jacket (dripping trees from all the rain) but it must have still been 60 degrees at 9:30pm.  The air was laced with the Wonder Bread factory’s baking and the sky was lit from behind in a somewhat surreal fashion - kinda in disbelief that [...

In re: Cleveland Clinic has gone global

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Cleveland Clinic is by far and away the biggest brand in Cleveland and the largest employers (probably the biggest real estate holder, but I don’t know about that one - they do seem to grow by a block or two along Carnegie and Euclid Ave every year as well as branches in Florida for [...

In re: Lowbrow Brewing?

Posted on January 28, 2008
“Should a cup of coffee should be a rich, sensory experience or a cheap chemical fix? Like most things, it depends on what you?re willing to pay.” Dwell’s Kitchen blog Caffeine is the worlds most used (or abused?) drug and for many of us we get our daily fix from coffee, although there is an ever [...

In re: S&N sold for £7.8bn

Posted on January 25, 2008
Scottish & Newcastle, brewers of one of my favorite beers Newcastle just got added to the list of brewers worldwide who are now part of massive conglomerate brewers  (well actually split between two Carlsberg and Heineken going at this in a joint venture)...

In re: New world economic order

Posted on January 24, 2008
Just got back from a brief but enjoyable trip to London, always enjoy getting to walk around that city and amazing to see how international it is even compared to 10 years ago.  Anyway, as you all well know the American economy is struggling under the problems of the sub prime lending problems, and it [...

In re: How not to attend a football match

Posted on January 23, 2008
Half the reason I planned a trip to London was to go watch Arsenal play, the north London football club (soccer) that I follow. Playing away at Fulham meant a less then competitive game (Fulham is facing relegation with their bottom 3 of the table spot) and while Fulham plays at Craven Cottage, one [...

In re: Wolfgang Puck Express Review

Posted on January 17, 2008
Wolfgang Puck may have ushered in our era of celebrity chefs and he has run with that making his name by putting it everywhere he can think, including a chain of fast casual restaurants. In Columbus he has one on Lane ave (as well as another in the airport one of my earlier introductions)...

In re: Wired in on the Media

Posted on January 12, 2008
The new and final season of The Wire (its fifth) is in full swing already (one episode down, nine to go - although you can watch a week early on HBO inDemand so I am two weeks in). Much has been written on the new season (for those who follow the show that is) [...

In re: NHL goes outside

Posted on January 01, 2008
If your not a hockey fan you may have missed a great sporting event today, the NHL winter classic, an outside game (the 2nd time ever for the NHL) was played in the Buffalo Bills football stadium with 70,000 plus fans in attendance for the Sabers vs. Penguins open to the elements...

In re: Does Starbucks actually help mom & pop coffee shops?

Posted on December 28, 2007
I find Starbucks an interesting company to read about, I’ve talked before about the economics of Starbucks an almost entirely corporate owned empire compared to the fast food empires that tend to be franchises.  Well, the newest article of interest on Starbucks I’ve come across is in Slate and discusses the subject of whether Starbucks [...

In re: Flex games?

Posted on December 27, 2007
Flex games are new to the NFL, allowing Sunday Night Football (replacing Monday night as the premier game showcase) to shift the time slot (to primetime) of a game in order to get the best game out there (with complex rules on which games they can touch) this is to prevent getting stuck as in [...

In re: NCAA limits in game blog posting

Posted on December 21, 2007
Live Blogging is something I am not really too familiar with, but the NCAA is apparently familiar enough with it to come up w/ some crazy new limits on reporters blog posting (they have apparently thrown a reporter out of a game for too many posts already)...

In re: Coffee hypocrisy

Posted on December 16, 2007
So I’ve been accused of being a hypocrite before, being a ‘flip flopper’ or the like and I say yeah, well I think thats really not that bad a thing. What does it mean? it means that I don’t become so entrenched in my view that I am not willing to change when [...

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