Bill Shein is a writer.
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- Affiliation:
- http://www.reasongonemad.com
- Location:
- Alford, MA, 01230
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Bill Shein Some very funny customer "reviews" of the ill-advised "Laptop Steering Wheel Desk" for sale on Amazon.com. Link passed along by my friend Dave. http://tinyurl.com/yzeym84
Source: tinyurl.com
Wow is this thing great! I use it as a "mini-bar" when the friends and I go out to the bars. I can quickly fix multiple shots of tequila for myself and the friends as we drive from one bar to the next. ...
Bill Shein This can't be good: "Some parents are borrowing from Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer, who is known for inspiring discipline."
Bill Shein Sign of the Apocalypse? Right now the most popular story on NPR's Web site is, "Heidi Klum Wows Crowd At Victoria's Secret Show." Well, I guess she's nicer to look at than the super-jowly Garrison Keillor, but still. NPR? (SFX: Sound of 16 galloping hooves rapidly approaching...)
Source: www.npr.org
Heidi Klum wows crowd at Victoria's Secret show
Bill Shein Interesting story of Yes Men-inspired civil disobedience. A dude spontaneously decided to disrupt an auction of gas-and-oil drilling leases on federal land in Utah. By bidding. And winning 22,000 acres. He's likely to go to jail for it. Though he succeeded in derailing a terrible, last-minute effort by the previous administration to hand over public lands to private industry.
Source: www.motherjones.com
How the Yes Men inspired a climate activist to impersonate an oil speculator—and derail a multimillion-dollar federal land giveaway.
Bill Shein Possibly the worst headline ever. The best "worst" headline, that is. If you know what I mean. "Judge Wapner Sentenced to Hollywood Walk of Fame"
Bill Shein I ... SMELL ... ZOMBIES! - From the judge who turned down AT&T's request to force Verizon to pull its "misleading" ads off TV: "“Most people who are watching TV are semi-catatonic,” he said, prompting laughter. “They’re not fully alive.”
Bill Shein I'm going to break my vow of silence on the distracting Sarah Palin nonsense to highlight her ironic attack on Newsweek for its cover photo of her. She hits the magazine for "focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant." Um, Sarah? With respect, ain't that the only reason you're on Newsweek's cover at all?
Bill Shein So, I'm heading to DC in a couple weeks to visit some old friends and traipse around my old stomping grounds. Any suggestions/recommendations for things I should see or do? Anything you want me to yell from the Senate visitors gallery in the moments before I get thrown out?
Bill Shein Wow. Speaking of corporations and their elected human servants, check this out:
Source: www.nytimes.com
More than a dozen lawmakers’ statements on the health care debate were ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech, a biotechnology company.
Bill Shein If, as envisioned in this week's column, big corporations start electing their robot servants for public office (as compared to their human servants today), what might America look like? And can you help me fill in the backstory and biography of Sen. General Electric PolitiTron 9000?
Bill Shein New column posted: "Corporations Are People, Too" - About the pending Supreme Court decision that may allow corporations to spend as much money as they want to elect or defeat political candidates. Thanks, absurd notion that a corporation should be treated as a person under the law! http://tinyurl.com/y9vmmmy
Bill Shein Question: What would we do without the 24-hour "news" channels? Well, right now we wouldn't be watching the "Balloon Boy" parents plead guilty on CNN. Can you imagine? How would the Earth continue to spin on its axis? Thanks, Ted Turner (and Roger Ailes and whomever is responsible for MSNBC), for your vision!
Bill Shein Just filed a column on the Citizens United v. FEC case the Supreme Court will soon decide. If, as expected, the Court overturns 100 years of precedent and allows corporations to spend unlimited sums for or against poltical candidates, we've got big trouble. (WARNING: The column employs several cheap robot gags. Please forgive me.)
Bill Shein "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," a violent "first-person shooter game" set in various war zones and praised by "action fans," this week set a record for the most single-day sales for a video game, $310 million. (Posted without comment.)
Bill Shein My 'To Do' list: 1. Quit job. 2. Sell house. 3. Join "Lou Dobbs for America's Kookiest President Campaign 2012". 4. After election day, write hilarious, bestselling, tell-all, insider account of the campaign. Unless he wins. In that case, no doubt I will be imprisoned as a traitor to both Kooky President Dobbs and the nation.
Source: tinyurl.com
Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN.
