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Bag of Randomness

  • I’ve always wondered why the city of Arlington didn’t have a light rail system to get people from theme park to them park to stadium to stadium, and then it hit me, the light rail would only benefit the people, not city or the businesses.  Imagine all the revenue that Six Flags ($20 a car?), the Rangers, and that other team would lose if they didn’t charge for parking.  And it wasn’t until yesterday that I learned the people who own private property in the area and charges for parking needs a permit.  If they don’t they can get fined up to $120,000.
  • Even though Apple is great at revolutionizing and building up suspense for a new product release, I think they have finally jumped the shark.
  • I think the iPad will fail, not only because of the craziness of the product name, but it really isn’t that revolutionary.  It’s simply a big iTouch.  And it doesn’t support Flash, as was very evident when Steve Jobs went to the NY Times website and he and the whole crowd saw a huge honking missing app question mark on the front page.
  • Having iTouch and iPad in one sentence is a little awkward.
  • I watched the Oprah/Leno interview.  I thought Oprah asked just about everything I wanted to know, and then some.  It was interesting hearing Leno’s side of the story, but he came across as a bit cold to me.
  • If you were a Saved By The Bell fan you always noticed that the name Peter Engel, who was the executive producer.  I recently discovered he is now a dean at Regent University, the university founded by televangelist Pat Robertson.
  • Speaking of SBTW – 11 Most Scandalous Saved by the Bell Revelations in Screech’s Autobiography (read with caution)
  • Ferrari is going to make a hybrid
  • In case you are going to visit the National Archives anytime soon, don’t bring a camera.
  • Six Magical Creatures That Look Like Taylor Swift
  • Little did I know, but Miramax has closed its doors.
  • Horrific : Haiti Orphans Targeted by Child Traffickers
  • An interesting read and recap of the Leno/Letterman feud – and I love the YouTube clip in that post where Carson makes a surprise visit to Letterman’s show.
  • With all that has been going on with all the late night hosts, I find it interesting that the movie about the Leno/Letterman feud isn’t airing anywhere on television, but it is on backorder at Best Buy.  But if you really wanted to watch it now, you can do so on YouTube.
  • And since I’m in a Carson kinda mood, here’s his last ever interview.
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A world of despair

This post caught my attention because the writer seems so honest about his feelings and what’s going on in this world.

As I was thinking about this column, there was a part of me that knew I had to write about Haiti and there was another part that simply wanted to ignore it.

On the one hand, we are faced with a humanitarian disaster in Porte-au-Prince that cannot be ignored. An estimated 200,000 people have died. Thousands have been traumatically injured, and many of them will die of their injuries or disease. These people are not just statistics, they are men and women and children with faces and names and feelings. Those who survive will be living in a ruined country without hospitals, utilities or housing. Finding water and food is a daily struggle. Haiti was a basket case before the earthquake and now there is not even a basket.

On the other hand, I want to ignore Haiti. I am suffering from what has been called compassion fatigue. Or maybe it is simply despair. The economy of the world is in the toilet. Unemployment in the U.S. will stay around 10 percent for the rest of the year. Wars are going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over Africa. There are millions of refugees around the world. Because of global warming, humanity is heading pell-mell toward an ecological cataclysm that will make the Haitian disaster pale to insignificance. And partisan politics has created gridlock in Washington making it impossible to deal with any of these crises.

Check out the full post here.

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