Monthly Archives: October 2004

Open the Books!

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I’m sure that there are some student athletes playing for big time football programs but I don’t think this guy is one of them:

But Goodrum, who played the last two years at Los Angeles Valley College, has no second thoughts.
“Nothing against Washington,” he said. “I just felt more comfortable staying down here and going to USC.”
There were rumblings at the time he committed to UW that USC wanted him as well but wasn’t promising a scholarship. So Goodrum signed with UW. But he ended up failing a history class and didn’t graduate in time to enroll at UW for spring practice as planned. Goodrum said the failed class was not just a convenient way to get out of his commitment to UW.
“My teacher wouldn’t help me out,” Goodrum said. “I told him about my scholarship to Washington, but he said there was no way to pass the class.”
Once he failed to enroll at UW, however, he was free from his letter, and by then, a scholarship at USC had opened up.
Excuse, me! “My teacher wouldn’t help me out,…”??? Uhh, junior college history classes aren’t that tough to begin with. Open the books, read them, learn something, earn a grade.
The sad thing is that there are many more just like this guy taking up spaces that could be better utilized by real students.

Failed Administration

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cheney tells us:

“The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us — biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Cheney said.
This is as clear a statement of failure by the current administration as I have seen. What they have been doing during the last four years has not worked.
Via Prometheus 6.

Brand Protection

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I hadn’t previously noticed NameProtect’s robot crawling my site though it looks like they have been in business since 2001. They are probably crawling your site as well:

NameProtect� is a Digital Asset Protection company that provides eMarket Intelligence to leading corporations. We proactively provide protection of brand assets, recovery of diverted revenues and detection of online identity theft and fraud in today’s global economy.
Their business model seems to make sense and I suspect that they are not the only player in this niche.

Corporate Speech

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British tobacco companies are upset about some regulatory restrictions on advertising:

Tobacco companies have launched a High Court challenge to strict restrictions on advertising at the point of sale.
The regulations, contained in the 2002 Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act, limit the size and location of promotional material in retail outlets.
But the manufacturers say they are an unlawful interference with their commercial freedom of speech under human rights laws.
If these businesses want human rights then they should get what they wish. Let’s start with the elimination of limited liability and all the other government granted special favors that swathe corporations.
Once they are structured as humans then, and only then, does it make sense for them to raise the flag of human rights.
Via Vice Squad.