Brown Motion

As in - What exactly is an innocent bystander?  I want to specifically listen to news involving guilty loiterers. Who exactly are these good Samaritans?  Where can I find the bad ones?  Is there a club that they hang out? What was Scorsese thinking?  I could not take the Silence for too long.  I gave it 30 min and the Occam's razor but switched off.  Too much for an atheist to handle. Same with Moonlight.  An Oscar worthy title, it could not hold my interest for more than 35 minutes.  I could not handle the repetitive mental beating.

For every unappealing event or person one must look for the sliver of silver.  Or so the saying goes.  It is the same with American politics in its present state and the presence of an unusual superego (the ego part is a must to be in any limelight for anyone) in the form of the Donald. With the airwaves awash in negativity about all that he says and does it is also IMHO exposing a chink in the media's armor.  That of unbiased reporting.  Some journalists have gone as far as to say that this time is an exception. But in fact that is not so.  I have been observing the American media more closely than any other given I have the desire to be "informed" and it provides one point of view that shapes my own opinion.  It seems that depending on the vested interests of the broadcaster the news or talk shows tends to conform to a predetermined ideology or designed to merely confuse the viewer or reader to the point of feeling irrelevant. Take the word media f...

Of all the jargon thrown at us by the broadcasting entities of all manners are certain curious items that defy everyday use - Double Whammy - I have never heard of a singular whammy or more than double whammies (is that a legal plural?).  Why is that?  If they are always double where does the first whammy find its double?  To me that is a double whammy - not knowing about the first and then the second. China to allow two children - this headline is fairly cryptic to a simple soul like myself.  Logical questions come to mind - which two children are the Chinese talking about?  Where exactly are they being allowed?  Why two?  And lastly, Why China? Women you will not believe are over 50 - what does that mean?  For starters many in our community do not know what 50 is?  Meaning they can only count to 34 in many cases, okay some can do upto 27 but that is very small %.  Many also have problems knowing if they are a woman, le...

Ratings drives content.  Ratings needs eyeballs.  Ratings means revenue.  Revenue means jobs.  So sell the sizzle not the steak. These and many such observations about media and business of news reporting in general are now de rigueur. Established and new comer agencies in the market with a mission to deliver facts keep churning meaningless drivel and sizzle it with eye catching headlines to make the reader turn the page. What amounts to eye catching also comes across as retarded in many cases - the rush to get crap into print or online bypasses common sense edits. Here are some examples or close seconds of what was recently published - Horrific site of plane crash (what a surprise - when a large object with people on board 'crashes' into hard surface from a height of 40,000 feet are they expecting a mind soothing landscape to compete with the Buchard Gardens?) So and so had an internal reproductive organ removed and may remove other parts ...

For all the pontificators on the subject of warming trends et al and how we as a species are causing irreparable damage to the flora, fauna and fundas..it is quite humiliating when the planet lets out a serious belch. It happened not far from our home in the Silicon Valley of CA.  What is known as the wine regions of northern California shook with a burp of 6.0 as measured by Richter scale.  That it did not cause serious human loss of life was partly a function of when it happened - when most of the public near the epicenter (even those that stayed up late to imbibe the local beverages - think Napa Wines) were asleep. It shook our bed many miles away too around 3.15 AM local time and lasted a good 15 seconds.  What I find amusing is that the news hawks decide to make a field day because the people had already tuned them out after the stale story about the demise of one of my beloved comics (Robin Williams - who passed - onto another realm not passed by Napa - abo...