Archive for December 2006

Living in Utah….

Things are really different here.  That’s generally self-evident.  However even I’m taken by surprise sometimes….
There was supposed to be the normal Sunday night football game on NBC tonight.  But jeez, guess what?  The station in SLC decided to PREEMPT the game – in order to broadcast a HIGHLY religious musical performance (as well as assorted [...]

The obtuseness of TV ad writers….

Okay, so there’s this new HDTV ad from Phillips (I think it is….)  – there’s a cute-ish little girl standing on a rock in the clear probably Caribbean Ocean, and a baby elephant (hair and all) on another rock.  The girl is holding a box.  She opens the box and discusses the new whatever it [...]

"Money and the Blind" from Judith E. Vido’s P O V

She’s an author, a singer, an activist.  And she’s blind.  Read her take on Dr. Marc Maurer (President of the Nation Federation of the Blind) and his statement in re the latest ruling by a Federal judge:  Money and the Blind
I guarantee you you’ll be cheering this feisty lady on!