[ caught In between ] b.s.: 07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006

Friday, July 28, 2006
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  1. {07282006}
  2. {08:29:30 PM}
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  1. Barkley eyes Alabama governor's office as a Democrat
    
    (USATODAY.com)
  2. "Alabama, that's my home. I'm thinking about running for governor; they need my help," the always quotable Charles Barkley said.
    
    For those of you who think Barkley could do it -- after all, bad actor and pro wrestler, Jesse 'the Body' Ventura, became governor of Minnesota, and bad actor and steroid-pumped bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzeneggar is currently inflicting my home state of California as governor, so why can't bad golfer and great baller Sir Charles run a backwater state like Alabama -- well, I offer you this photograpic evidence:
    
    Clearly, the guy is bananas, no, really, crazy! What sane brutha, in these f*cked-up times, would choose to pose for a national magazine cover in chains? On purpose? Now, if it was at gunpoint, that would be a different story, but this knucklehead made the decision on his own. I have a word for that: moron. Boy, wait 'til he gets to the governor's mansion, huh? But as long as people keep putting mics in his face, he'll keep talking, and we'll all have a continuous stream of cheap, dumb humor.
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
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  1. {07222006}
  2. {10:58:07 AM}
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  1. Inside LeBron James' Marketing Summit in Akron, Ohio
    
    (Advertising Age)
  2. Emerging marketing endorsement heavy LeBron James convened an unusual 'marketing summit' for himself in Akron, Ohio, last week. Attending along with reps from Coca-Cola, Nike, Microsoft, Bubblicious and other interested corporations was Ad Age.
    
    More on LeBron. Here's what I like about it: a group of young Black men, all childhood friends of the young hoops phenom, and none older than 30, are showcasing some real business and strategic acumen as they roll-out what essentially is becoming an advertising agency called "LeBron James, Inc." Here's what I hate about it: by courting the Nikes, Microsofts and Cokes of the world, they have become corporate lapdogs before you can even spell the words "s-e-l-l" and "o-u-t." Does Coke, Nike or Microsoft need to make more money? Wouldn't it be better for regular people (i.e. consumers) if these companies actually had to compete for your attention? Why not, in the same strategic way that Team LeBron is thinking about exploiting (a word I don't use lightly, because that's the real name of the game here) LeBron, why not build your empire with a new set of companies. What about helping some Black-owned companies get a foot into the global game, for example? Instead, h'ep Da Man rob and plunder by painting a slam-dunking brown face on things. Oh well. So much for idealism. The rich get richer. And corporate monoculture continues to spread worldwide.
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  2. marketing and advertising
  3. sports
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  6. lebron+james
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Friday, July 14, 2006
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  1. {07142006}
  2. {11:41:17 AM}
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  1. Scientists grow sperm from stem cells
    
    (Telegraph UK)
  2. Scientists have turned stem cells from an embryo into sperm that are capable of producing offspring, it was announced... [t]he advance in reproductive science raises new opportunities to treat male infertility and the possibility that women could make sperm.
    
    Well there's one argument against stem cell rresearch, if you are a man, that is: it can make you obsolete!
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
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  1. {07082006}
  2. {09:50:19 AM}
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  1. A Few Bad Men
    
    (SPLCenter.org)
  2. Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military.
    
    Here we are, fighting a so-called 'war on terror' and we have enlisted men who themselves are terrorists, domestic terrorists. It's absurd, but these goons are a cancer within the ranks, and it probably explains why we're going to have problems 'winning' this war: all the soldiers are not on the same page.
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