Posts Tagged ‘Trends’

NAB hires lobbyists to fight XM-Sirius

May 25th, 2007 | No Comments

The National Association of Broadcasters has enlisted the recently re-minted lobbying firm of Bluewater Strategies in its quest to combat the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.In a Wednesday filing at the Senate Office of Public Records, lobbyists Tim Kurth, Andrew Lundquist and George Nethercutt, former Republican representative from Washington, said [...]

Girls making out is the new black?

February 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

That’s the teaser for this pic on Colleghumor: Girls making out is the new black. (from CollegeHumor) It seems every generation wants to shock the previous generation by doing things they THINK their parents never did.  My generation did it mainly by having guys primping like a girl, and girls appearing to be plastic replicas [...]

Do we “need” neoconservatism?

October 18th, 2006 | No Comments

Powerline points to a book by Douglas Murray called: Now, the premise here is that the country NEEDS Neoconservatism.  I don’t particularly think that’s true.  That’s about like saying the country NEEDS to grow older.  Sounds kinda harsh I know, but this is why I think this is true.  It’s pretty simple really:  In 1990, [...]

Red states and obesity?

August 24th, 2005 | 4 Comments

OK, here’s the teaser.  I read somewhere that fat states voted for Bush.  In other words, red states were fatter than blue states.  This fits right in with the bogus claim that blue states were smarter than red states.  Etc..  So, I thought I’d take a closer look.  From the Centers for Disease Control: Here’s [...]

Share of U.S. in labor force to fall

October 17th, 2004 | No Comments

CBO report says a smaller percentage of Americans will be in the workforce 10 years from now. September 17, 2004: 2:23 PM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A smaller share of Americans will be in the workforce 10 years from now as baby-boomers retire and rising taxes dampen the incentive to work, congressional analysts said Friday. [...]