Archive for the 'Doonesbury' Category
COMING TO A NEWSPAPER NEAR YOU…
October 7th, 2012I think I see a theme building here… Between plays of the Notre Dame, University of Miami game last evening, Adam Harvey and I talked a little bit about the imprending demise of the Plain Dealer. For the people who work there, I mean actually work, the people who get up every morning and struggle [...]
HOW DOES GOOGLE SELL $36.5 BILLION IN ADS..?.
May 7th, 2012I’ve never read a Google advertisement. I find Google ads only slightly less annoying than pop-ups (does anyone else remember pop-ups?). So, when I read this bit this morning along with my daily does of Doonesbury: Total advertising revenue of the U.S. newspaper industry in 2011: $23,900,000,000. Of Google: $36,500,000,000. – from May 2012 Harper’s [...]
CAN ANY REPUBLICAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION…?
October 24th, 2010This should be the first, second and third question out of every voter’s (and journalist’s) mouth when speaking wtih any politician who has signed the Republican party’s Pledge to America.
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP STRIKES AGAIN…
June 27th, 2010Before you jump on my headline, I think that the commercials are a masterfully despicable bit of misdirection worthy of a snake oil salesman. And all the respones on YouTube are hilarious.
WOULDN’T YOU…?
April 22nd, 2010The current sex abuse scandal centering on Pope Benedict XVI brings to mind the vague memory that Rev. Sloan weighed in on the subject decisively back when U.S. churches were under fire. Can we please revisit that strip?
YA THINK…?
May 31st, 2009And for the record, she (Trudeau) has two points wrong, first, they were money changers, not money lenders (their’s a huge difference that is only clear when you understand the system) and second, the whole wrathful/loving gawd stereotype is blatantly simplistic.
