Newsweek, Sarah Palin, Michael Jackson, Lance Armstrong, GM, and New Zealand Air

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Newsweek Magazine published a list of “50 Books For Our Time.”  I am never without a book or two on my nightstand, actually my wife will tell you I have dozens of books stacked around my nightstand.  However, I have not read one of the books on the Newsweek list.  That doesn’t bother me as much as after reading brief blurbs of the books, I feel like I want to read about 30 of them.  Better see if I can find used copies somewhere.

 

All is quiet on the Sarah Palin front today, although the AP had an interesting article on her apparent disinterest in governing Alaska.   Michael Jackson’s mother lost control of his estate. 

I still haven’t heard who is paying for all the police overtime needed to secure the public memorial service. There is rioting in China, and Lance Armstrong is now 3^rd in the Tour de France. I am not sure why I think of Nathan’s Coney Island hot dog eating contest when I think of Armstrong. Robert McNamara died, and Congress returns from a 4^th of July break for a real fireworks display over health care reform.  A 21 year old woman prank called her grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her.  How did you spend your holiday?

 

GM will get another $20 billion dollars in government aid, none of which will go to those maimed or killed in defective autos produced by GM prior to its bankruptcy.  I took a Business Ethics course in college in 1970.  That was a long time ago, but my thinking is that this is unethical, and immoral. 

 

I hate to end this post taking about GM.  New Zealand Air seems a much more refreshing topic. It seems the airline has a new safety video that it hopes passengers will actually watch.  All of the featured employees wear nothing at all-they are body painted instead.  After watching the video on YouTube, I would suggest that if NZA really wants to get passengers attention, they should have the pro dancers from “Dancing With The Stars” do the safety video.  They show a lot more on network TV than this video did.

 

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~ by Ron Meyer on July 7, 2009.