Yay! It’s me, everyone’s favorite egg, the Liquid Egg Product Mascot, and I’m out of the hospital. Whoopee! (Check out my recent picture at the top right. I look as good as new!)
Anyway, um, Donnie said I should write about some relevant, newsworthy topic, so let’s see…oh, Isiah [sic] Thomas. He’s always fun!
Isiah [sic] Thomas and the Madison Square Garden were found guilty of sexual harassing former MSG executive Anucha Browne Sanders, and the Garden has to cough up over $10 million. If the judge really wants to make a statement, he’ll make MSG pay in euros instead of dollars.
Isiah [sic] Thomas needs to hire some smart lawyers next time.
The slam-dunk ruling in Manhattan Federal Court was stunning setback for Thomas and MSG boss James Dolan, whose lawyers were so confident of winning they wrapped up their defense early – and didn’t bother putting their last six witnesses on the stand.
Idiots. Here’s all they had to do: they’re defense lawyers, which means they’re scum anyway. They had nothing to lose by going the lowbrow route:
Defense lawyer: Your honor, I called Ms. Sanders to the stand not to question her, but to make sure everyone sees her in good lighting conditions.
Judge: And what relevance does this have to the case?
Defense lawyer: The relevance, your honor, is this: does she look like a woman anyone, much less Isiah [sic] Thomas, would want to sexually harass?
Judge: [ponders briefly, then throws down the gavel] Case dismissed.
That would have convinced me.
off topic but did you catch the debate? I only was able to listen 40 minutes after the start i think, I couldn’t figure it out, maybe i just needed to wait longer for the streaming media to start before retrying. But man was that entertaining! Personally I think Dawkins lost to Lennox but I’m biased, was wondering what a non-Christian thought of the match? who do you think won or did you not catch it?
few in our country really realize the depth of ownership of media assets by megalithically sized media behemoths… Berkshire Hathaway, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, Geico, part of Disney. Disney owns ABC, and espn. Viacom owns CBS, Marketwatch.com, foodTV, OLN, discovery channel, and Infinity Broadcast, the second largest radio broadcaster after Clear Channel; owns BET. Liberty media owns a bunch of stuff, at once being owned by parts of these other companies, and owning them… GE owns the largest commercial credit leising corporation, and NBC and CNBC. Newscorp owns Fox. Time Warner, People Magazine, Money Magazine, Sports Illustrated, many such as Budwiser owns sports parks… you butter my bread and i butter yours… IACI owns ticketmaster, who owns match.com. It used to be, and wouldnt be surprised if still true, before Microsoft could have tried to put the death kell to Apple, and subvert the software, they decided to buy 10% of the company instead. smart. they bought part of Comcast, and Nextell. i thought that cablevision bought part of the nicks and madison square garden, but its too damn late… or too tired now…
we have oligopoly. first they villify Mike Tyson on Tv for alleged rape, then advance him–the CBS or Gannet, USA today… Harper Collins, etc–$500,000 to tell his story in a book, which is why markets cannot regulate themselves, given the preturnatural tendancy of humans toward greed, evil, and baselessness:
try this one on:
http://transformation-dks-inner-work.blogspot.com/2007/04/imus.html
@LEP Mascot: That was absolutely disrespectful, making fun of a woman’s looks like that. It’s not like you’re some sort of lady killer yourself.
@l3rucewayne: I did not catch it, unfortunately. It’s gotta pop up somewhere as an mp3 or something, right?
@David: People (or at least I) sorta have an idea that big company owns bunch of other stuff, without considering what it means. Never really thought of the term “oligopoly”, which makes it sound scarier.
Yeah it probably will, but it probably wont be a legal mp3 as they are selling the dvd of it at fixed-point.org and had an annoying thing at the end of the debate saying its not to be copied or something etc…hiss, boo i want to catch the first 40 minuts but not for 20-25 dollars.
try this on!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_FIh_ipMERs
exactly as discussed!
Well I found couple of places to find the debate and linked to them on my blog. uncommon descent linked to one as well so maybe they are legal after all I wouldn’t know. One is on a Christian oriented site and the other a pro-dawkins site. Enjoy if you can find the time with the move and all. And good luck with that as well:-).