March 12, 2007
Always Remember - Now on Sale
It's been a long time. I don't have time for blogging these days. But I could not resist posting this. If discovering that the memory of Ronald Reagan has been marked down to $17.95 isn't funny enough, the folks at RonaldReagan.com gave us a bonus, with a typo that transforms "logo" into "log." Nice.
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August 02, 2006
Hummer Humping
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July 27, 2006
Colbert Reams "Today Show" and "Good Morning America"
I missed two episodes of The Colbert Report this week. My mistake. I'd heard about this, but thankfully Crooks And Liars have posted the video (saving me the iTunes cost).
Just watch this video.
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July 22, 2006
Garth Brooks Wants the Other Half of Your Sandwich
This is a reader's submission. Good timing, since I haven't dedicated much time to this site lately.
My journalist training led be to believe that, since this piece pertains to something that was newsworthy more thann 10 years ago, it belongs on the inside pages of the main site rather than here on the blog. Don't ask. Just go to the article.
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July 11, 2006
Hasselhoff Rocks his Asshole Off
Ein Mann. Ein Auto. Ein Komputer...
Brett submitted this link to David Hasselhoff's latest video. Not to be missed (make sure you have time to watch it all the way through to the end).
I promise you, we did not doctor these images from the video in any way.
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May 31, 2006
Tucker Carlson's New Look
When Tucker Carlson first appeared on television sans bowtie a few weeks ago, I thought it was curious that he had chosen to step outside his norm and leave his silly, geek-pride affectation at the door.
But now that Tucker seems to have shed the bowtie for good, it has become evident that his new, "casual" open-collar look is simply a new affectation to replace the old. I don't know if he is a born-again, style-maven wannabe or what, but Tucker's new look reminds me of the kid in high school who proudly wore a pocket protector with a vengeance... until one day when he showed up instead sporting a shaved head, Doc Marten's and an Exploited t-shirt, and all the real punks (i.e. those of us who had undergone that same transformation months or years earlier) called him "poseur."
What happened the Tucker Carlson we knew and loved to hate?
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April 21, 2006
Screen Capture of the Day
This Batman Crotch Rocket reminds me of another toy, the Harry Potter Vibrating Broom.
This treat was submitted by Brett, who has submitted number of other fun things like:
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Hu Ya Gonna Call? George Dubya.
Chairman Hu Jintao should have stayed in Seattle with Bill Gates. Hu's visit to America was hunky dory and all smiles until he flew to Washington.
If it wasn’t bad enough that the White House gave press credentials to a reporter for the Epoch Times (the newspaper of Falun Gong), who proceeded to yell protests at Chairman Hu Jintao for a full three minutes before the Secret Service ferreted her away ... or that the official announcer of the event referred to the visiting leader's country as "the Republic of China" (which is the official name of Taiwan, the sworn enemy of the People's Republic of China), the icing on the cake came when Dubya (once again) made a jackass of himself and our entire nation, by accidentally insulting a visiting head of state.
When Mr. Hu began to walk in the wrong direction after a photo op, Bush grabbed him by the sleeve "as if redirecting an errant child," commented The Sydney Morning Herald.
Of course, Bush learned a thing or to about walking in the wrong direction, when he visited China back in November, and I suppose we should just be glad Bush didn't follow in his father's footsteps who vomited in the Japanese Prime Minisiter's lap in 1992.
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March 17, 2006
End of Empire
The barbarians are at the gates and, after this week's World Baseball Classic, I think we can safely say for sure that the American Empire is on the decline.
If it isn't bad enough that low-skilled jobs and, more recently, high-skilled jobs are going to Canada, China and India, now we can't even freakin' play baseball.
First, Canada, our NAFTA partner to the north (we get maple syrup, they get our "nearshore" IT jobs), beat us 8-6 . Then South Korea, a country whose continued existence theoretically relies on our fixed force of over 30,000 troops, slammed us 7-3. For the final humiliation the Americans got edged out of the tournament altogether by Mexico, our NAFTA partner to the South (we get cheap day laborers and busboys, they get Wal-Mart). Actually, I suppose the final humiliation really would be if Cuba wins it. The three other remaining teams are Japan, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea.
Wow do we lose. At least we know we'll win the "World Series." The Canadians have only won that once.
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Airforce Nutrisoda Brand Ambassador
The ridiculously curious can sometimes be surprisingly simple. The following is just a want ad I found while trolling craigslist for future freelance work.
I used to be pretty obsessed with beverage marketing. If I ever find the time, maybe I'll investigate nutrisoda and decide if the word its worthy of being added to my MarketSpeak collection of obscure and/or dumb marketing terms. Who knows? Maybe I'll even write a more expansive piece in the Beverage Crap section of Culture Freak. (Nah, one quick look at this site and I can see this looks like your basic "nutraceutical meets beverage to become gentrified Kool-Aid product" story.) Dumbest quote for my money: "Don't confuse nutrisoda with energy drinks." God forbid.
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Airforce Nutrisoda Brand Ambassador
AIRFORCE NUTRISODA
Minnesota-based Ardea Beverages is the international bottler of airforce Nutrisoda. Not to be confused with energy drinks, Nutrisodas are delicious, refreshing, and nutritious upgrades to traditional soda. For product information check out www.nutrisoda.com.
OPPORTUNITY: New York City Brand Ambassador
Airforce Nutrisoda is experiencing tremendous national growth and is currently building a team of dedicated Brand Ambassadors. This opportunity should only be considered by passionate, smart, trustworthy, fashion-forward, energetic, self-starters that will appreciate the opportunity to help build a brand from the ground level.
Brand Ambassadors are responsible for building airforce Nutrisoda's brand awareness throughout the city. While "being the brand" you will seek out and cultivate credible relationships with New York City tastemakers in the subcultures of fashion, art, music...anything that screams innovation. These relations will spawn supported event opportunities, product tastings, sales opportunities, etc. that our Brand Ambassadors will be expected to execute against. Working with and on behalf of our distributor partners will be paramount.
DETAILS:
• Full Time position = full benefits (health, dental, vision, 401K)
• 2 weeks vacation
• Company car
Serious inquiries only
4 year B.A. preferred, marketing experience preferred
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March 03, 2006
Running Man
( Sorry. I needed a light-hearted (if still dystopic) interlude.) With only 37 percent of California voters saying they would reelect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Gubernator's popularity may be almost bad as Bush's.
But, at least he's fulfilling foul futuristic fantasies of the fashion made famous by Roger Corman, by hosting pay-per-view, ultimate fighting bouts at his upcoming fitness weekend in Ohio.
"Governor to star as gladiator 'god'He'll appear in Ohio at blood-and-guts kickoff to fitness expo" - San Francisco Chronicle
"Schwarzenegger pumped up about Ohio fitness festival" - San Jose Mercury News
Sadly, I could only find that dinky ad above for the gladiator event. But then again, aren't the large ad images I did find are more amusing anyway?
Welp, here's waitin' for the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
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January 30, 2006
Your Cookies Contain Crushed Critters
Who knew? Many juices, snacks, cosmetics, and other products contain red dye derived from crushed insects. Christmas cookies! Yum.
FDA: You're eating crushed bug juice
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That ice cream you're eating or the lipstick you're wearing just might contain extract from crushed bugs. On purpose. (continue)
FDA May Require Food Labels To List Insect-Derived Red Dye
Agency Receives Reports About Allergic Reactions To Cochineal Extract, Carmine
(Go to original)
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators are considering making changes to food and cosmetic labels that would require that the presence of widely used red colorings made from insects be listed, but not the dyes' origins.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed requiring that manufacturers flag the presence of cochineal extract and carmine. The red colorings are extracted from the ground bodies of an insect used to make dye since the time of the Aztecs.
The coloring is used in juice drinks, yogurts and candies. The proposed rule is in response to reports of severe allergic reactions to the colorings.
The coloring is used in everything from yogurt to lipstick but hasn't exactly been well disclosed. The FDA said the ingredients typically are listed as "color added" or "E120."
But Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, said the FDA's proposal doesn't go far enough. The group wants the insect product disclosed, suggesting that the FDA require the phrase "insect-based" follow carmine or cochineal extract on ingredients lists.
"Why not use a word that people can understand?" asked CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson. "Sending people scurrying to the dictionary or to Google to figure out what 'carmine' or 'cochineal' means is just plain sneaky. Call these colorings what they are-insect-based."
Members of the public and food companies have 60 days to file comments with the FDA before the rule is finalized. The rule would not go into effect until 2009.
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January 29, 2006
Dancing Dubya
Learn about my singing, dancing George W. Bush doll in the Cabinet of Curiosities
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January 23, 2006
Hot Dog!
Since I've no time or quarter of late to post new entries, I decided to post some internal links to crap on my site you may have missed (a backlog of yet-to-be-posted stuff will, one day, return -- I promise).
I never imagined that one day I'd see an alligator with a hot dog on its back. And yet, that's what I saw on a trip to Orlando, Fla. (where else? a year ago.
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January 20, 2006
Warm Fuzzy Terrorists Indicted
Part of me wouild like to put this in our "Crazy New Order" category, but its just too damn silly. The American ALF and ELF are pretty much jokes by today's terrorist standards. Their acronyms don't help. Alf was a silly puppet on an 80s TV show who recently made a comeback as a commercial spokesman (somehow). And an elf, well...
To the hardliners: I know a crime is a crime, but uh, let's concentrate on Al Qaeda and those who seek to kill Americans and not worry so much about our scruffy, silly little lefty friends in the American West as they vandalize power plants. Can't local authorities deal with them?
To the puppet people and fuzzy left: I know the ALF and ELF mean well, but so did the muppets, so far as I could ever see.
11 People Indicted in Ecoterrorism Plot
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 49 minutes ago
Eleven people were indicted in a series of arsons, claimed by the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, in five Western states, the Justice Department said Friday.
The 65-count indictment said the suspects are responsible for 17 incidents in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, including sabotaging a high-tension power line, in a conspiracy that dates back to 1996. The indictment was returned Thursday by a federal grand jury in Eugene, Ore., and unsealed Friday.
"The indictment tells a story of four-and-a-half years of arson, vandalism, violence and destruction claimed to have been executed on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front or Earth Liberation Front, extremist movements known to support acts of domestic terrorism," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at a news conference Friday.
Appearing with Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller declared, "Terrorism is terrorism, no matter what the motive."
"There is a clear difference between constitutionally protected advocacy ... and violent criminal activity," Mueller added.
"It is one thing to write concerned letters or to hold peaceful demonstrations," Mueller said. "It is another thing entirely to construct and use improvised explosives to harass and intimidate victims by destroying property and to cause millions of dollars in losses by acts or threats of violence."
Eight defendants have been arrested. Three people remain at large, and are believed to be outside the United States, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
In Eugene, two defendants, Jonathan Christopher Mark Paul, 39, and Suzanne Nicole "India" Savoie, 28, were both ordered held without bail, pending further hearings.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Eugene accused Paul, a firefighter, of setting firebombs that burned down a horse slaughterhouse in 1997. The ALF claimed responsibility for that fire, which caused an estimated $1 million in damage.
Savoie, who works in a group home for the developmentally disabled, is accused of serving as a lookout for a fire in 2001 that destroyed offices of a lumber mill. The ELF claimed responsibility for that fire.
The other defendants are Joseph Dibee, Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, Sarah Kendall Harvey, Daniel McGowan, Stanislas Meyerhoff, Josephine Overaker, Rebecca Rubin, Darren Todd Thurston and Kevin Tubbs.
Dibee, Overaker and Rubin have not been arrested. The other six were arrested in December.
Using improvised incendiary devices made from milk jugs, petroleum products and homemade timers, they carried out attacks between 1996 and 2001, the indictment alleged. Targets included U.S. Forest Service ranger stations, U.S. Bureau of Land Management wild horse facilities, lumber companies, meat processing companies, a ski area and the power line, the indictment said.
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January 05, 2006
Terror Probe Shutters Culture Freak Blog
Okay. It's not quite that sexy. But what a title.
Sadly, for information security reasons at the place I spend most of my weekdays, blogging from my daytime terminal must cease temporarily. So, it is likely this blog will contain far fewer entries than normal over the next several weeks...or longer. We shall see.
In the meantime, it's always a good idea to visit Crooks and Liars.
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December 16, 2005
Jesus Toy Just in Time for Christmas
It's good to know that when I don't have time to post things myself, I can count on friends like Brett to send in great stuff like this.
Go to the Jesus Butt Plug.
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On Air Marshals and American Cities
Very little time for blogging lately, but I had to relay this little anecdote. I work right above Penn Station in New York City. Today I went down into the station to retrieve some lunch, as I often do when the weather is bad.
Shortly after passing by several policemen and national guardsmen, I encountered a clearly mentally ill man in his late 20s or early 30s. He was preparing to throw a soda can at a wall, and I imagined him doing so, perhaps coincidentally, just as people passed before him. He did not seem particularly dangerous, but evinced an air of mild, delusional belligerance such that I made sure to keep my eye on him as I passed. A small group of quasi-homeless types stood nearby him, and seemed to know him.
As I passed by, I thought about how the Federal Air Marshals are testing a plan to patrol more than just planes, but also public transit systems.
I thought about how the Air Marshals shot that mentally ill man recently in Florida. I don't claim to know the facts of that situation, and so cannot judge the Marshals' actions. But, I couldn't help think that expanding their turf to include urban public ground transportation centers, a hotspot for mentally ill homeless folk, could lead to a number of similar shootings.
As I passed the can-throwing man, I could easily see him doing something that could result in his being shot, simply by his demeanor -- especially if he encountered an Air Marshal not familiar with New York City, rather than someone in the NYPD who might detect that it was obviously just a Manhattan street person, rather than a terrorist.
After collecting my sandwich and heading back up to work, I sensed an altercation ahead, just by the body movements of several people in the crowd about 40 feet ahead of me.
Suddenly the crowd kinda scattered, and a large space opened up between me and the can-throwing man, who was clearly in a physical exchange with two teenage girls or young women. I couldn't determine who had begun grabbing or punching first and continued walking toward them, assuming it would not heat up any further, since it was my most direct path back to work.
It did heat up, and move around for that matter, however. One or both of the women were grabbing him and swinging him around. I looked around for all the cops I'd seen before, but none were around. Some people seemed to try to intercede and a woman started calling for "La policia."
There were none around, and clearly there needed to be. I knew where a police desk was about 100 feet away. So, about ten minutes after imagining Air Marshals gunning this guy down for thinking he might have a bomb or something, there I was running through the crowd of waiting Amtrak passengers to actually bring a cop into the guy's life.
The situation had ended by the time the cop arrived, and neither the young women nor can-throwing man were anwywhere to be seen. The cop began asking people what happened and, as I went on my way back here to my work station all I could hear was a woman from the quasi-homeless group of folk telling the cop "they [garbled]... They beat him up anyway."
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December 02, 2005
Air Force Unveils "PHaSER" Gun (or "U.S. spends $1 million on giant flashlight")
Can't make this crap up...Well you could, but who needs to?
The United States Air Force had a coming out party this week for its nonlethal, Personal Halting and Stimulation Response (PHaSER) gun.
Mr. Demille, I'm Ready For My Closeup.
"When you 'dazzle' an individual with laser light, it’s pretty much the same effect as if someone shines a flashlight in your eyes," said Maj. Monte Anderson, project leader at ScorpWorks, an internal division within the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate. "The brightness and intensity of the light is so much that it obscures your vision and you can’t see," Anderson said. "The intent is to obscure the adversary’s vision so they can’t make you a target." (MSNBC.com)
Perhaps this can be used to replace white phosphorus as a method for obscuring troop positions.
I have one small question. Why did the airforce develop what appears to be an infantry weapon?
Bedazzled
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November 29, 2005
I Missed the Manhattan Maple Syrup Mystery -- Did you?
On Oct. 28, a cloud of something smelling like maple syrup drifted over Manhattan. It must have happened after I left work, cuz I totally missed it until today. Looks to me that the mystery was never solved. (What is this, the ghost of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919?
See for your self: (1)NYC Bloggers comment. (2)Web search of event.
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November 15, 2005
TrackBack Ping Spam
It's curious that I should happen to post this now, as I just today had an email exchange with a friend and reader about consumer data mining; i.e. the fact that when you use those "membership discount" cards at your favorite shoppping center or clothing retailer, they track your purchases and sell that information.
A few days ago I got a catalog for "big" men in the mail, and I'm about 90% certain it arrived at my door thanks to my Men's Wearhouse membership card (yes...) that entitles me to free tailoring (each time I lose or gain weight) and once provided me a nifty discount on a tuxedo rental.
"Wow," I thought. "Someone out there knows I'm fat." It wasn't hard to figure out that my name and body measurements had been added to some list and then sold. (See how you, too, can fool the list managers by exchanging your "loyalty card" with that of another consumer. Shop at Safeway? Help Rob convince the store that he's the ultimate shopper).
But this post isn't really about any of that, exactly.
No. This is about a new form of spam; one that apparently utilizes the TrackBack pings of Moveable Type (the engine that drives this, and many another blog) to send automatic marketing messages to a blogger's mailbox.
In a past life I wrote a lot about phishing, identity theft, scams, and information security. In an even more distant past life, I worked as a researcher and investigator in intellectual property and technology law and was often charged with thwarting offshore pirates (not the Somali kind) who had hijacked our clients' Internet domain names, online identities,etc.
So, I generally consider myself to be pretty hip to the latest scams & spams.
But this one was new to me. Over the past several days, I've been getting a bunch o' these things.
__________________________________________________________________
A new TrackBack ping has been sent to your weblog, on the entry 110
(Dems Grow A Pair; GOPs Whine Like Babies).
IP Address: 64.191.73.101
URL: <http://christmas-trees.search-smart.info>
Title: christmas trees
Weblog: christmas trees
Excerpt:
christmas trees
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Each spam says it originates from the IP Address 64.191.73.101 (though I doubt that's true) and links to a different e-commerce site, such as buy aciphex online."
And mine is definitely not the only blog to get these things.
I continue to be amazed by the ever increasing types of e-scams out there -- any new messaging technology that comes along, will soon enough be exploited by criminals and morons. I never understand why these idiots think someone is going to shop at their crappy e-commerce sites because he or she received some random URL...but then I remember the things my dad does.
Hopefully there's no malicious code or anything making its way into Culture Freak. Really, these spams create only a minor annoyance. But, it's annoyance worthy of my posting all the information I can find on the perpetrators.
First, I visited "search-mart.info" site (from the above christmas-trees.search-smart.info) to see what they were all about and the following page came up (the big red arrow is my addition; you'll find out why it's there momentarily).
The Jamaican flag that appears in the address bar, coupled with the multicolored, peacock-like Carnival Casino design, led me to believe this might originate from some rasta gang pulling their version of a 419 scheme. I had my first 419 encounter when I worked for a huge insurance company back in 1997 or so. Need the 411 on 419? Then visit these fine gents at 419 Eater.
Anyway, to make a long story short. I think I'm right. The smart-info domain is owned by some individual or group calling itself..."Rasta Community" and claiming to be in "Deeptown, Ethiopia." I assume this is horse shit, and that he/she/they just picked Ethiopia because rastas worship the late emperor of that state, Haile Selassie I. Also, the only references I can find to any such "Deeptown" is on the Spam Archives of Alden Bates'Weblog.
In a related domain name, CarnivalCasino.com, the owner claimed to be in Antigua. It seemed more likely than Ethiopia and huh, the phone number listed happens to match that of lawyer named Septimus Rhudd, who is listed on the government of Antigua & Barbuda's Directorate of Offshore Gaming site.
That's about all the investigating I have in me today. Perhaps this is all a legal, but annoying e-commerce rather than a 419. And perhaps Mr. Rhudd is not involved at all.
SEARCH-SMART.INFO
Created On:28-Apr-2004 17:12:49 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Oct-2005 07:07:30 UTC
Expiration Date:28-Apr-2006 17:12:49 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Direct Information Pvt. Ltd. (R159-LRMS)
Status:OK
Registrant ID:DI_1335542
Registrant Name:Maximilian Berkovich
Registrant Organization:Rasta Community
Registrant Street1:Ann Karelina street 123
Registrant City:DeepTown
Registrant Postal Code:34543534
Registrant Country:ET
Registrant Phone:+21.43534532
Registrant Email:admin@smokaz.com
Admin ID:DI_1335542
Admin Name:Maximilian Berkovich
Admin Organization:Rasta Community
Admin Street1:Ann Karelina street 123
Admin City:DeepTown
Admin Postal Code:34543534
Admin Country:ET
Admin Phone:+21.43534532
Admin Email:admin@smokaz.com
Billing ID:DI_1335542
Billing Name:Maximilian Berkovich
Billing Organization:Rasta Community
Billing Street1:Ann Karelina street 123
Billing City:DeepTown
Billing Postal Code:34543534
Billing Country:ET
Billing Phone:+21.43534532
Billing Email:admin@smokaz.com
Tech ID:DI_1335542
Tech Name:Maximilian Berkovich
Tech Organization:Rasta Community
Tech Street1:Ann Karelina street 123
Tech City:DeepTown
Tech Postal Code:34543534
Tech Country:ET
Tech Phone:+21.43534532
Tech Email:admin@smokaz.com
Name Server:NS1.SEARCH-SMART.INFO
Name Server:NS2.SEARCH-SMART.INFO
________________________________________
CARNIVALCASINO.COM
Registrant:
Crown solution gaming
6 Temple street
St. Johns, na 99999
AG
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: CARNIVALCASINO.COM
Created on: 24-JUN-97
Expires on: 23-JUN-15
Last Updated on: 27-JUL-05
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Administrator, Tech admin@easymanaged.com
Crown solution gaming
6 Temple street
St. Johns, na 99999
CY
1-268-460-6184
1-268-460-6183
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November 04, 2005
Bush Approval Rating Free Fall -- The Game
Andy sent in a link to this amazing game along with the words, "this is great...maybe even genius." We couldn't agree more.
I don't know if it was timed to coincide with Bush's free fall in the polls (his approval rating as of yesterday stood at between 35 and 39 percent, while dark lord Dick Cheney's hit an all-time low of at 19 percent!)
Grab Bush by the head or limbs and drag him about like a rag doll, or just let him fall and watch him bounce around. I wasted about an hour doing this. But wasted?
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November 02, 2005
Other "CultureFreaks"
Today I was alerted to two other Culture Freak blogs out there. Who knew? One "culturefreak" blogger (top image) is from Brazil, while the other looks like some fake...I don't know what...but may be Culture Freak in name only...
On the flip side, there is the Intellectual Comedy Salon, a blog whose name bears no resemblance to ours, but could nonetheless be CF Blog Cabin's twin. Very much my speed, whatever it is.
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October 25, 2005
I Just Couldn't Ignore These Little Darlings
I know this is a few days late, but I didn't get to it before, and just can't let it go. America's newest Disney-esque, Hillary Duff wannabe girl talent, known as "Prussian Blue", are also spokesmodels for the American white-power movement.
See the story here (if link fails, click here).
Thanks to Brett for the t-shirt photo. Here's a pic of their album.
Have a bigger pic, if you need it.
And here's an mp3 of their bloody awful song "Victory." Check out that guitar.
[The following links were sent in by an anonymously. Thanks, whoever you are - CF].
Prussian Blue Blog
Dresden's Blog
Prussian Blue Website
Prussian Blue Forums
Jerry's Prussian Blue Page
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October 18, 2005
Pirro Pirro...What a Zero
I have a love/hate relationship with Hillary Clinton. I love her because she is a brilliant political strategist, because she generally believes in traditional Democratic values (even if she does not always act on them), and because conservatives hates her so much (even if they do so because they think she's more liberal than she is).
I hate her sometimes because she panders and meanders and leaves many battles unfought because they threaten her political position (but, once she's president maybe she won't have to do that!).
That said, I can't wait for Hill to eat Jeanine Pirro alive, or at least chew her up and spit her out. Pirro, the Republican District Attorney for Westchester County, New York, has been annointed by her party to run against Hillary in the 2006 Senate race.
So far Pirro's off to a great start.
Her speech last August announcing her candidacy was a disaster. In the middle of her opening she stopped abruptly, spent 30 seconds silently shuffling papers in a panic, and finally asked an aide where page 10 of was (see Vote for me because...uh, where's page 10?).
She hasn't been able to raise any real money ($439 thousand total, compared to Hillary's $14 million dollars).
And today, it was revealed, her campaign sent a fundraising letter to...Hillary Clinton (and at her old address, the White House, no less).
"Dear Hillary," You and I have been through a lot over the years...Hillary, I need to know if I can count on you to stand by my side in my campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in 2006...you and I know the U.S. Senate isn't Hillary's real goal. Hillary wants to use New York as a pit stop on the way to the White House..."
Brilliant. "No wonder Ms. Pirro raised so little money," quipped Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson on Monday.
When the Senate race TV commercials start being produced and Hillary is the only one who can afford them, it won't help that District Attorney Pirro's husband is a jailbird.
Albert Pirro was convicted in June of 2000 for income tax evasion, after a court ruled he conspired to hide $1.2 million by labelling personal spending as deductible business expenses.
Jeanine Pirro claimed she knew nothing of her husbands dealings, and has distance herself from him since his conviction (duh).
"Though federal tax law allows spouses to claim ignorance of their other half's business dealings," wrote New York Magazine in May 1999, "Al's list of exemptions raises real concerns -- at least about Jeanine's lack of curiosity. 'She's a bright lawyer,' says a former assistant U.S. Attorney who worked in the office now prosecuting Al. 'How could she not know?'"
"Though she co-signed several of the couple's joint tax returns (she earns $136,700 a year as D.A.), she has offered no explanations. Not about the Mercedes, which she drives each day past the $40,000 electronic gates of her $1.7 million Harrison home -- gates Al claimed as a business deduction -- or about the deductions of a $3,700 backyard awning; $10,000 in furnishings for a West Palm Beach vacation home; another Mercedes, for Jeanine's mother; cruise tickets; stereos; fine wines; cigars; toys; and even salaries for workers who baby-sat the Pirro children, picked up the dry cleaning, and took the family's pot-bellied pigs to the vet."
But let's take Pirro's word for a second, and assume she really didn't know. Uhh, she must be one hell of a District Attorney, eh?
Jeanine. Hillary is going to pound you into flour, make bread, and feed you to the people of New York.
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September 30, 2005
McDonalQaeda - I'm Loving It !
General John Abazaid, the Commander of U.S.Central Command, yesterday compared Al Qaeda to both the Nazis and McDonald's.
Speaking before the Senate Hearing on Military Strategy and Operations in Iraq (watch using Realplayer), Abazaid (the only American in authority I've ever heard pronounce Al Qaeda correctly, likely because he is a Lebanese American), gave a presentation on Al Qaeda literature, communications, and operations.
"Just as we had the opportunity to learn what the Nazis were gonna do from Hitler's words in Mein Kampf, we need to learn what these people intend to do from their own words," he said.
But that's not the funny part.
Describing the terrorist groups global operations, Abazaid said, "It's not like IBM, a monolith that's centrally lead from a central headquarters. It's much more like McDonald's, a franchise that is decentralized and dangerous."
I knew McDonald's was dangerous, but I had no idea CentCom agreed.
And speaking of which, here's a nice quote from the McDonald's Kuwait website: "McDonald’s is leader in promoting healthy lifestyles for children, and its happy meals are enjoyed by children and adults alike. McDonald’s always pays special attention to young customers and makes sure to provide them with nutritious meals and creative toys to stimulate their imagination, along with play areas for them to exercise and play."
I don't think I even need to comment on that.
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September 29, 2005
Code...Interrupted - A Multi-Tasking Mishap
Testimony to why I shouldn't do two very different things at once:
One minute I was writing Oregon Congressman Peter Defazio's office, requesting a copy of his fantastic statements on the house floor regarding Bush cronyism.
The next minute I was doing my actual job, which today involves editing documentation comments in java files. My hand slipped on the mouse while I was editing in Microsoft Visual Source Safe (I never heard of it either before I had to use it). I couldn't see what I had done, but I saw movement on the screen indicating I'd done something.
MVSS doesn't have multiple undo's, so I scanned the screen to see what I'd altered. It wasn't hard to spot:
Parameter returns an array within the DestinationObject. The array returned by this method contains information in the form of a systematic looting of the United States Treasury Element. This method is available to the administrator and the Address Book owner only.
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September 22, 2005
Tweaking on Your Own Product
And the winner for Culture Freak's Most Surreal Media Artifact award for the Hypercommunications Age is Zachary Mastoon.
Mastoon, a passenger on the JetBlue flight that became a live-television spectacle Wednesday as it made an emergency landing at LAX, used his cell phone to take this photo of the seatback television screen aboard the flight, on which he was watching the news coverage.
To illustrate just how magic this moment was, we employ some cutting-edge technology ourselves: Powerpoint!
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September 19, 2005
Hugo Chavez...
Settling well into his new role as heir apparent to Fidel Castro as the most humiliating thorn in the side of U.S. policy, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week earned a round of thunderous applaus after tearing the Bush Administration a new one in a speech at the United Nations during a global summit marking the international body's 60th anniversary.
“There were never weapons of mass destruction, but Iraq was bombed, and, over U.N. objections, (it was) occupied and continues being occupied,” he said, speaking one day after Bush addressed the U.N. and, later, the American people (where he prattled on about God, the U.S. army, and hurricane Katrina).
Chavez said that the attack on Iraq launched by the United States without U.N. demonstrated America's lack of respect for the organization, and suggested moving its headquarters from New York City to an international city “outside the sovereignty of any state.”
He also accused the United States of "abetting "international terrorism," according to the Washington Post.
"The only place where a person can ask for another head of state to be assassinated is the United States, which is what happened recently with the Reverend Pat Robertson, a very close friend of the White House," Chavez said. "He publicly asked for my assassination and he's still walking the streets."
At one point, a U.N. official handed Chavez note advising his allotted five minutes was up. But the Venuzuelan presigent threw it on the floor, turned toward the president of the General Assembly, Jan Eliasson of Sweden, and said: "I think the president of the United States spoke for twenty minutes here yesterday. I would ask your indulgence to let me finish my statement."
After his speech, Chavez got the loudest applause of the summit, according to observers present.
That evening, Chavez appeared on ABC's Nightline, where he told Ted Koppell he had documentary evidence that the United States was preparing scenerios to attack Venezuela under the code name Operation Balboa (read full transcript).
Decent coverage of the speech (many are derived from AP coverage, though it is interesting what elements of the speech different papers chose to include or omit:
Washington Post
Globe and Mail (Ottowa, Ont.)
San Francisco Chronicle
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September 15, 2005
Warm Greetings and Marketing
Let's take a short break from all the horrible news in the world to observe a new(?) element of our material/media culture:
Max Racks is a site where you can send e-card greetings that are, in fact, advertisements. We ain't talking nifty greeting cards that have a subtle sponsorship tag on them somewhere. These cards are commercial messages -- and nothing but.
Somewhat reminiscent of "GoCards," those sponsored, free postcards you find in urban bars, these ad-cards range from ads for movies and gallery openings, to Campbell's soup, sneakers, and shampoo. There are also public service announcements. (Max Racks has apparently also been a GoCard competitor for urban bar shelf-space since at least 1997).
Some are (deliberately?) surreal. Like this one, for the Washington State Lottery.
I just don't understand why anyone would use these to send an e-greeting. It would be kind of like sending someone a photograph of an ad on a New York subway car and writing "happy birthday" next to it. I suppose this could be some kind of way-after-the fact Warhol-blowback curiosity or something (if that makes sense to anyone but me). I don't quite know what to make of it.
Speaking of Warhol, however, for me this site functions more as an e-gallery of oddities (much like our own Gallery of Commercial Weirdness) than a repository for cards I might send to anyone. Whoever put this together is an artist is an artist, but doesn't know it. Like a 21st century accidental Duchamp installation, brought to you by Dow.
Okay, now I'm just rambling. Go to Max Racks and look at their crap.
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August 29, 2005
Town of "Fucking" Finds Nothing Funny About It
Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name (go to source)
LONDON, (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly-named village.
While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of Fucking are failing to see the funny side, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
Only one kind of crimimal ever stalks the sleepy 32-house village near Salzburg on the German border -- cheeky British tourists armed with a sense of humour and a screwdriver.
But the local authorities are hitting back and with the signs now set in concrete, police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger is on the lookout.
"We will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed," the officer told the broadsheet.
"It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke? It is puerile."
Local guide Andreas Behmueller said it was only the British that had a fixation with Fucking.
"The Germans all want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg," he explained.
"Every American seems to care only about 'The Sound of Music' (the 1965 film shot around Salzburg). The occasional Japanese wants to see Hitler's birthplace in Braunau.
"But for the British, it's all about Fucking."
Guesthouse boss Augustina Lindlbauer described the village's breathtaking lakes, forests and vistas.
"Yet still there is this obsession with Fucking," she said.
"Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no Fucking postcards."
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August 17, 2005
America Bless God
[entry amended Sept. 1, 2005 per correction by commentator]
This morning I saw a pickup truck in Bridgeport, Conn. that bore an "America bless God!" bumper sticker. At first I thought my minor dyslexia had gotten the better of me, and that I had misread a "God bless America" message. But, no. Upon second inspection, indeed my first reading was correct.
I was taken aback, somewhat paralyzed in puzzlement. Just what is the intended meaning of this message?
Has American patriotic hubris finally overshadowed religious faith, to the point that the United States has (in the eyes of some of its people) supremacy over God, and that God should take a back seat to American power? If so, "America bless God!" may be 21st century slang for "Step off, God!"
Or, perhaps a growing number of folks believe that God has really been fucking up lately, and needs spiritual guidance from our God leader on earth, Chairman (and Chief Executive) George W. Bush. Does God need America's help to get back on track? Maybe.
I then considered the possibility that this slogan was merely using a relatively lame play on words to call upon people to pay attention to God. That is, maybe this is just the standard "Love Jesus" or "Praise God" communiqué but rewritten in an attempt to be clever by playing on the well-known expression "God bless America!"
As I do with most unanswered questions these days, I sought guidance from the almighty Google. And my savior did not fail me. The search for "America bless God" yielded 7,650 hits, the first of which was for, of course, AmericaBlessGod.com. There I learned that the message "America Bless God" was actually even a tad more warped, sectarian, and despotic then I had imagined. From the site's intro:
America bless God was started soon after September 11, 2001...As I have been growing in my faith, learning about God, country, life, and all that makes up our life, I have rediscovered that we, America, the United States, were founded as a God honoring Christian Nation. The men and women who came to this part of the world came with a vision from the God of the Bible. The vision was to have a homeland that was Christian. I know that many disagree, and say that America is a land made up of many different beliefs and many different philosophies, but if you do an honest search and study of our origin, you can’t deny the facts that America was established as a "Born-Again Christian Nation."
God help us.
As if that weren't weird enough, the third link on my internet search gave me the impression that the prime (sole?) distributor of ABG products was the same purveyor of the Civil Liberties messenger bag I wrote about last week (see Aug. 11 posting). I was mistaken, however. The ABG and civil liberties bag distributors have nothing to do with one another, but simply use the same production company (see related comment to this post). Here is the ABG version of the same bag.
By the way, I promise you I did alter the messenger bag images in Photoshop®, though clearly they were generated by some digital hand, most likely by the folks at Cafe Express, which does made-to-order print jobs for various ABG and non-ABG product. By the way, don't forget your "America Bless God" dog t-shirt. America Bless dog! Love the "Do it up in doggy style!" blurb -- I don't even know what to do with that, other than point it out.
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August 12, 2005
Found Magazine
I've been waiting for this. Found Magazine prints (and posts on the web) notes, photos, etc. that people find in public. I'm excited to unload on them crap I've found and kept out of fascination, but really don't need to store in my house.
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August 09, 2005
The History of Ranch Dressing
So, I haven't had time to piddle around with this. In fact, I began but did not finish new entries two weeks ago. Since they're no longer timely, I'll stick 'em in the site proper sometime soon.
Meanwhile, Matt forwarded me this lovely article from Slate on the history of ranch dressing, which in 1992 surpassed Italian as America's favorite salad dressing. I particularly enjoyed learning that the Clorox company once owned the Hidden Valley Ranch brand.
"How did this simple mixture of mayonnaise, buttermilk, and herbs become America's favorite way to liven up lettuce?" (Well, I think your answer may be right there. The proof's in the mayonnaise.)
Go to article.
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July 21, 2005
Burn Baby Burn - It's Finger-Licking Good!
The Huey P. Newton Foundation, named after the late founding member of the Black Panthers, announced this week it will market a new "Burn Baby Burn" hot sauce to raise money for the not-for-profit group's literacy programs.
Man. This seems so wrong on so many levels. "It was a catchy phrase, and I thought it would be reminiscent of the '60s," said Fredrika Newton, Huey's widow, on Tuesday. "I sure didn't want it to be a call to burn anything other than our taste buds." Coined by Los Angeles R&B disc jockey Magnificent Montague, who often said "burn baby burn" when playing a hot track, the adage was seared into the American lexicon during the 1965 Watts riots, when crowds turned the DJ's motto into a rallying cry as they set neighborhood businesses ablaze.
On the other hand, if co-opting revolution will raise money for educational purposes, I suppose they should totally exploit that. Lord knows plenty of revolution has been co-opted for less benevolent purposes. I just hope this doesn't inspire any profiteers to make "Black Panther" malt liquor or anything.
And for that matter, I must admit that since, coincidentally I happen to be flying to Oakland tonight, I'm totally gonna try to see if the foundation is already selling the sauce locally.
Check out the foundation's trademark application here. I find it curious that they filed the mark for use in "sauces, excluding apple sauce and cranberry sauce." While I agree it is unlikely they would choose to make apple or cranberry sauce, such disclaimers are usually reserved for a situation wherein another party is already using the trademark for the same goods -- and I'd venture to guess that no one else is using the brand for apple or cranberry sauce.
Two other parties are, however, also using or planning to use "Burn Baby Burn" as a brand name.
Pascal Communications uses the brand for its CD and DVD burning services, while New York designer Norma Kamali apparently plans to use the brand for a women's clothing line.
Kamali's trademark application is interesting because it was filed eight months before the Newton Foundation's. This means that if the foundation ever decides to make t-shirts or hats of their new hot sauce brand, it could end up having to license the name (for use on clothing anyway) from Kamali. Kamali, having prior rights could conceivably even block the foundation from using the name on clothes altogether.
Wow. How amazing would that be if, 40 years after the Watts riots, a New York fashion designer forced former Black Panthers to cease and desist from selling "burn baby burn" clothing? A truly American story.
Read this San Francisco Chronicle article to get the full story the Newton Foundation's new hot sauce brand. (However, please note that, while the headline reads "barbecue sauce," the body of the story, and every other one I've seen, says it is hot sauce).
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June 30, 2005
There Goes 'Welcome to the Neigbhorhood' --
Reality TV Hits Too Close to Home
ABC pulled a reality show scheduled to debut July 10 after it was disclosed that the TV show may violate the federal Fair Housing Act.
In "Welcome to the Neighborhood" seven families competed to win a suburban home near Austin, Tex.
The group of families was composed of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian, a white gay couple with an adopted black child, and other folks generally less than desireable to White suburban America. (See the whole list, and story in this Washington Post article.)
In the show, three families already in the neighborhood (all "three white, Christian, and Republican" according to the Post), handpicked the winners. The federal Fair Housing Act prohibits allowing race or religion (I don't know about sexual orientation) from playing a role in the transfer of homeownership.
It's hard to believe they were going to put this on the air. And yet, sadly, it isn't. "Will & Grace" aside, the entertainment industry remains a reflection of white-majority Americans, who often don't realize horribly intolerant they are, even when they think they're being such wonderful folks -- "Aren't we nice for letting negroes move in (just so long as they're not gay or athiests)?"
And the title. "Welcome to the Neighborhood" is clearly white wash for the old adage, "There goes the Neighborhood" (whether the shows writers are aware of it or not). It's kind of like the "eenie meenie minie mo" rhyme, which most people don't realize was not originally followed by "catch a tiger by the toe", but "catch a nigger by the toe"! I learned that myself 25 years ago, when a childhood friend told me his grandmother still said it that way. Don't even get me started on the when they changed the fast food restaurant "Sambo's" to "The Jolly Tiger"*, or the minstrel blackface origins of Daffy Duck.
The icing on the cake is this story ABC promo photo, below, which shows not the diverse families competing, but the nice white people who have allowed diversity into their suburban cul de sac. No offense to these families (I mean hell I don't know them, and lord knows plenty would not even entertain the thought of "welcoming" anyone), but sheez.
Nice Day for a...White Welcome
*Ok,if you really want to read some odd stuff about Sambo's/The Jolly Tiger, see the following:
The change of name from Sambo's to The Jolly Tiger (in only some locations?) apparently took place after a 1978 request from Massachussetts State Rep. Thomas K. Lynch.
http://www.barnstable-patriot.com/archives.php?45,2800,1835102,1835102xp,5,1998,Doc,doc.html
In Ohio, a court held that the city of Toledo could not deny Sambo's the right to use the allegedly racist name on it's restaurants (after switching to "The Jolly Tiger" resulted in lower sales).
http://aalto.arch.ksu.edu/jwkplan/cases/sambo.htm
http://www.stormfront.org/archive/t-106443Denny's_benevolence_toward_King.html
Interesting that I had to find the above Nazi site to learn that the there is still a "Sambo's" in Santa Barbara...
http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/a_stones_throw/sambos/default.asp
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June 10, 2005
Another UFO Weirdo Makes for Nifty Follow-Up to Yesterday's Posting
A CF reader asked "What's up with the UFO action in the news lately?" after reading this June 9 news story about a Brit who allegedly hacked into U.S. government computer networks because he thought they were hiding evidence of the existence of UFOs.
Highlights from the story:
A British computer whiz who allegedly hacked into Pentagon and NASA networks because he thought they were hiding evidence of the existence of UFOs is fighting extradition to the United States...
...McKinnon -- known online as "Solo" -- allegedly accessed 97 U.S. government computers, stole passwords, deleted files and shut down military computer networks, crashing 300 computers at Earle Naval Weapons Station in Colts Neck, N.J., shortly after 9/11...
...According to British press reports, McKinnon, who was unemployed but had worked as a computer engineer, dressed like his hero, glam rocker David Bowie, and believed that U.S. defense networks were concealing evidence that aliens had visited Earth.
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June 09, 2005
Nutjob Religious Dude Invokes UFOs on Local TV News
A Las Vegas local news channel goes to meet "the prophet Yahweh" who claims his prayers invoke UFOs. The camera crew got more than they bargained for:
1) Click here (after reading steps 2 and 3).
2) Then click on "Click here to launch the NEW Action News Player"
3) Promo for Action News starts: Click on "UFO Video" in Action
News video window
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April 01, 2005
Goodbye Hank
Today's April Fool appears to be former AIG chairman and CEO, CEO Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg.
Greenberg resigned his positions in recent weeks, amid a probe by regulators over charges of fraud at AIG, the world's largest business insurance company.
The future governor of New York (I pray), State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, looks poised to indict the company, which joins the likes of Enron and Worldcom in a scandal involving accounting fraud. Last month, an internal audit showed the company had used improper accounting methods to falsely bolster its financial position as reported to the Securites Exchange Commission and, ultimately, its shareholders.
Now there are fun allegations that former chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, who resigned in March, may have lied to regulators and investigators, and stolen or destroyed documents.
Greenberg was one of the most powerful executives in the world, and had been CEO of AIG since 1967, succeeding Cornelius Vander Starr, who founded the company in Shanghai in 1919. He was a big donor to the Republican party (was a Bush Ranger) and had sway with politicians from Washington to Beijing.
"The dramatic end of Mr. Greenberg's 37-year reign as head of the world's largest business insurance company was extraordinary for the financial titan who ruled AIG as a personal fiefdom," wrote The Wall Street Journal this morning. "Indeed, as the events unfolded, Mr. Greenberg railed against what he viewed as a palace coup...He called and yelled at several directors, including longtime friends Frank Zarb, former chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers... for "turning" on him and leading a "boardroom revolt," the people say. Shortly after the probe began, he complained about the "McCarthy-istic" legal and regulatory atmosphere that he believed attacked him unfairly, the people say...For decades, the health-conscious chief roamed AIG's corporate headquarters and many of its offices around the world...In his executive suite filled with Chinese artifacts, Mr. Greenberg had his own elevator guarded by his own security detail, his own living room adjoining his office and private chandeliered dining room.
Basically, Hank Greenberg is Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons" (who, of course was fashioned after John D. Rockefeller). It figures that he has finally been unmasked as the crook he is. I worked for AIG for a few years and, you know, I never trusted that mofo. (You can learn why http://www.culturefreak.com/barrons.html#aigscandal and here, at your leisure.) A couple of times I encountered his personal security detail mentioned above, which guarded the entire 18th floor of the company headquarters at 70 Pine St. in lower Manhattan. That scene was right out of the pages of "Robocop" or "Brazil."
I'd laugh more at AIG's misfortune if I weren'ta shareholder. AIG stock is, in fact, the last security investment I still have (the dot com burst took care of my 401Ks). What sucks is, recently I dumped my General Motors stock, because the word was that GM was gonna tank. It did tank, but luckily after I cashed out directly, using the stock's transfer agent. I wanted to cash out my AIG stock also, but couldn't get it together. Now, in less than two weeks, it's fallen from $70-something a share to $50-something.
In recent months, I've been editing a book on accounting fraud investigations, and so the whole question of corporate governance has been fresh in my mind, back from the dead after the whole Iraq-war interruption. With this in mind, I've decided to post an editorial I wrote on the subject, almost three years ago.
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January 21, 2005
Black Tie and Boots
I missed most of the inauguration ceremony today ‘cause I was too busy with freelance work. But, I did catch some buzz about the Jan. 19, “Black Tie and Boots” pre-inaugural ball. In true Texan style (and with Lyle Lovett entertaining?), the Bushies did the Texas two-step, though it appears W fell short of wearing the proper attire: tuxedo with cowboy boots, hat and bolo tie. Noticeably absent from news coverage of the event was any mention of the late-night “Diaper and Boots” afterparty. Below right, Bush daughter Jenna gives a sign-of-the-devil shout-out to Dick Cheney in a display of deference—wait, no, I'm wrong. She is actually presenting the traditional cowboy “hook’em horns” which, in this context, indicates she’ll be giving double blumpkins at the diaper party.
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