Bobby at Heretical Ideas teaches us how to play Gunner Bingo. It sounds like a game that could be played in any too populated classroom. Perhaps if those playing participated more actively in the classes we would all be better off. 🙂
In an unusual juxtaposition of sports and literature Jack Kerouac will make an appearance as a bobblehead doll:
The first 1,000 fans at the Aug. 21 game between the Lowell Spinners and Williamsport Crosscutters of the Class A New York-Penn League will receive bobbing likenesses of Jack Kerouac.
That’s On the Road he’s standing on. Full article here.
Inspired by a particularly gross talk show episode the FCC is looking to envigorate their efforts “to crackdown on indecency in broadcasting“:
The agency not only warned Infinity that it might lose its license if it does not clean up its act, but announced that any broadcaster who runs afoul of the vague indecency standard will face “strong enforcement actions, including the potential initiation of revocation proceedings.”
Given apparent ongoing congressional intent to oversee our reading and listening habits I suspect we will not be able to look to congress to properly slap the FCC as it has done regarding the media ownership issue. So this FCC behaviour is likely to end up in the courts hopefully it will be tossed out with the trash.
James Joyner, Outside the Beltway, thinks this “may be the strangest story of the year”:
The Pentagon is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits.
Maybe not so strange when you consider the folks behind this. Just imagine the opportunities to line the pockets of selected investors. Of course, the current administration would never consider something like that.
Hmmmm, how much would someone need to bet invest before they were incented to hire lobbyists; make campaign contributions; or perhaps hire a hit squad? Just imagine the possibilities….
Here is a discussion you should all read and think about. Right Wing News polled some mainly conservative bloggers to create a list of The Twenty Greatest Figures in American History. Meryl Yourish one of the voters took exception to the results and venom started flowing(a must read) with Meryl weighing in again.
Thanks to Ampersand for the pointer to the discussion.