Monthly Archives: May 2007
And it’ll work, too
Has anyone seen the new Citgo commercial? This is a company that is essentially owned by Hugo Chavez. Ok, so you gotta like his stance on U.S. (read – Bush’s) foreign policy. But people, this is a bad man. He is milking the Venezuelan economy for everything he can. Only the oil exports allow him to maintain his cleptocracy and still appear to be helping the ever-increasing poor population of his country. Here’s the tagline that appears at the end of the commercial – “A steady, secure supply of Venezuelan oil.” Sure it is. Hugo will make sure of it.
It is so on
I told myself that when I could find time to blog, that I would try something that wasn’t cynical, or arrogant, or all ranty. Yeah. That didn’t last. When looking over my notes of current topics to discuss, I created the following list: Television executives and the special hell to which I as master of the universe would condemn them. Stop teasing us by providing us with good television, and then canceling it 2 weeks in! The Copyright Royalty Board and the lunacy of discriminating against the current technology that could save the music industry. Aired music is promotional, but
