Archive for March, 2009
Outrage
The audacity of global insurance giant American International Group (AIG) to award $165 million in bonuses from taxpayer bailout funds to the executives of its Financial Products unit—the very people responsible for bringing the company, and nearly the entire global financial system, to its knees—may be shocking and sickening to the vast majority of the public and President Barack Obama, but it shouldn’t be surprising.
As I Was Saying
So I’m a couple of months into this column “thing” and thoroughly enjoying it. As the publisher of the Press I have long eschewed the self-indulgence of this particular vehicle partly in fear that I would eventually run out of things to say and partly because it is, well, self-indulgent.
Fake Voices
When was the last time you called a business, any business, and got a human on the other end of the line?
The first thing you hear is one of those disgusting, recorded, fake voices saying, “Thank you for calling The (blank) Business.”
Casting Light on Dark Corners
Long Island drug enforcement efforts took a dramatic shift this week with the debut of a “drug mapping index” on both the Nassau County Police Department’s website and Suffolk County government’s homepage.
Loose LIPs: For the Week of March 19 – March 25
50 Cent is joining Fall Out Boy on their Believers Never Die Part Deux tour because rap and emo go together like…actually they don’t go together at all. Some FOB fans are happy, others—not so much.
Howard Stern Gets My VoiceMail
How I missed the call, I just don’t know. But I have been cursing myself ever since, because it was the closest I might ever come to having my name mentioned on The Howard Stern Show. I am aware that most people will not identify at all with that disappointment.
