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Stolen from elsewhere

Ukulele-playing kid

by Rufus on December 11, 2009

He’s a whole lot better at it than I am! Enjoy.

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Insurance companies should fear people like Dr. Dave Ores more than any health care reform bill

by Charlie on November 16, 2009

While the politicians in Washington argue about how many uninsured people there really are, call each other liars and debate over eleventh-hour amendments, real people with real lives are not waiting around for some edict to determine their destiny. They get fed up, roll up their sleeves and get the job done themselves. And that [...]

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Never touch your hair during the cutting/styling process

by Rufus on August 31, 2009

I had a hair cut appointment on Saturday morning. The rules are simple and unwritten. 1. Arrive on time, never late. 2. Chat with Jerry about social issues 3. Never touch your hair during the cutting/styling process. 4. Never touch your hair during the cutting/styling process. (Not a repeat, just a lot of emphasis.) For [...]

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The audience you are not getting because you are focused on your own niche

by Rufus on August 17, 2009

Here is the ugly truth about American soccer. It is something kids DO, not who they are. Yet many soccer clubs and tournaments focus their marketing and message around the assumption that soccer is central to the players lives and that everything else is ancillary or inconsequential. The ASAE (American Society of Association Executives) produced [...]

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Thank you, Sarah Palin

by Charlie on June 16, 2009

I never thought I would be saying these words in the same sentence, but “Thank you, Sarah Palin for not going gentle into that good night.” I hope you continue to rage against the dying of your political career. Why? Because without your endless visage on every cable news channel, how else would my pitbull [...]

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Is Fox’s Bill O’Reilly shoplifting from Kroger?

by Charlie on May 11, 2009

I was watching the Twitter stream and saw this tweet; TheKid965 Random thought: The O’Reilly Factor’s current logo bears a striking resemblence to Kroger’s. Weirdness, and possible disturbingness… about 8 hours ago from TwitterFox So, I went over to kroger.com and then fox.com and sure enough, they are remarkably similar. What do you think? And, [...]

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AdAge Power150, I’m done with you

by Rufus on April 11, 2009

I noticed that the AdAge Power150 now has 979 blogs listed. “That is odd,” I heard my puppy brain saying to myself. “How can you be a top 150 list and have more than 150 blogs listed?” Then, I thought that perhaps I now had a chance, that Charlie Moran would no longer reject me [...]

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Clearing the clippings

by Charlie on March 19, 2009

It has happened again, more news story clippings are piling up on my desk faster than I can comment on them. So, here is the quick dump of stuff so my brain can breathe again. Everyone deserves a second chance No, no they don’t. You should take the time to do it right the first [...]

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And now for something different…

by Charlie on March 17, 2009

Want to play the bagpipes? I do.. How To Play the Bagpipe It ranks right up there with my quick lesson on playing the harmonica, for which I don’t have a video. But, here goes. A simple scale, moving from left to right: Blow, suck, blow, suck, blow, suck, suck, blow! Everything beyond that is [...]

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Why this stuff doesn’t change humanity

by Rufus on March 12, 2009

This started out as comment to Shannon Paul’s post. Then, it got too long and so now here it is. Enjoy, but you probably have to read hers first. Absolutely we are creating new silos! Technology changes; people don’t. The one really cool part of studying literature is how fascinating it is to see how [...]

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I remember that feeling

by Rufus on February 21, 2009

Peggy Noonan hits hope home with a recovery plan that taps into the real and only assets we each have; the human spirit. She says things a whole lot better than I could even paraphrase, so I won’t except to share the last paragraph with you. Dynamism has been leached from our system for now, [...]

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Signs of our times

by Charlie on February 16, 2009

These are just a few images and snippets I saw while cruising around some internet haunts. Ideas now come in florescent light bulbs? Ah, well, the incandescent light bulb had a good run. Found on wowOwow.com Found on Tavis Smiley as a reaction to the 25 random things. Why all this social media is going [...]

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Why thinking different is important

by Charlie on January 18, 2009

Thank you Karina for leading me to this.

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Michael Douglas asked about his views on the Wall Street mess.

by Rufus on September 24, 2008

Reporters are asking Michael Douglas about Wall Street because he played a character in the 1987 movie “Wall Street?” What’s next, asking Big Bird to comment on bird flu?? Exactly what is wrong with modern journalists… they can’t tell fact from fiction anymore. read more

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Tina Fey as Palin

by Rufus on September 15, 2008

I’ve always liked Tina Fey. Now, I just love her Enjoy.

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We got bears!

by Rufus on September 12, 2008

I was poking around the Anchorage Daily News this evening, reading up on Palin and TrooperGate. I noticed that the newspaper had a bear sightings gallery. Well, that certainly beats the 937pets.com that we have here at the Dayton Daily News. Go Alaska. Go bears Thanks AKMuckraker at MudFlats for the trip north to Alaska.

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9/11 through the eyes of Gen Y

by Rufus on September 11, 2008

Tim Weaver write this article today about 9/11. A short snippet. I’m not saying that we should not defend ourselves from terrorists and other foreign threats. I’m not even saying that the war on terror is a lost and hopeless cause and a horrible squandering of our resources. All I’m saying is that we can’t [...]

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