Helen Thomas, the most senior member of the White House press corps, really socked it to Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer on Monday over the issue of Iraq. Check out the hook while DJ revolves it:

Helen Thomas Socks it to the White House

] Friday, January 10, 2003
] "Detroit Project" Won't Play in Detroit
] Detroit TV stations are refusing to broadcast the Detroit
] Project's TV ads linking terrorism to gas-guzzing SUVs,
] and industry-funded think tanks like the Competitive
] Enterprise Institute have jumped in to attack the ads.
] Actually, the marketing link between SUVs and violence
] may run deeper than the Detroit Project realizes. The SUV
] craze got its start thanks to the first war in the
] Persian Gulf, which inspired automakers to adapt military
] vehicles for the consumer market. As even Fortune
] magazine admits, the auto industry has been deliberately
] marketing rollover-prone gaz-guzzlers as vehicles of
] aggression that appeal to consumers' "reptilian"
] instincts. Small wonder that,
] according to the industry's
] own market research, "the SUV is the car of choice for
] the nation's most self-centered people; and the bigger
] the SUV, the more of a jerk its driver is likely to be."
] Source: Detroit Free Press, January 10, 2003

Spin of the Day

A great article from Harvard Business School (online reg required I believe) that talks about why expensing options is not a solution to the current exploits of America's Most Wanted Corporate Criminals. In fact, it points the blame squarely at the investment analysis community.

Why Expensing Options Doesn't Solve the Problem

In honor of the Wings-Avalanche game Thursday, ESPN Classic will run eight consecutive hours of games between the rivals beginning at 11 a.m.

We get to see Patty Roy get his ass kicked 4 times in a row!!!

Relive the rivalry

A spokesman for West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd said Monday morning that the top Senate Democrat has told him he never participated in lynchings, cross burnings or other hate crimes against African-Americans while he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s. And he insisted that his boss wasn't a racist even during the time he belonged to the anti-black hate group.

Sen. Byrd: I Didn't Lynch and Wasn't Racist While in the Klan

] Modding your car like this can't be good, but talk about 4 wheel steering.

Proof positive that Polacks are not only great engineers, but have a great sense of humor as well. ;-)

Ummmmm

As some of you know I coach a youth ice hockey team in Nashville. The
Pedators have agreed to graciously allow my team to play one game at the
Gaylord Entertainment Center. As you can imagine, the kids are really
exited. Imagine playing football at the Titans stadium or baseball at
Yankee Stadium. Well for them this is it ... Each player get's announced
on the ice, they play the national anthem, they announce the goals, etc. -
they get all the bells and whistles as the Preds game.

Yes there is a catch - the team has to sell 150 tickets to the Predators
game on March 1 at 1:00 pm. (Chicago Blackhawks). The tickets are in the
cheap seats and only cost $17.00 each. The kids are selling them as best
they can, but based on last nights inventory, it appears they would be well
short. They looked very dejected when I broke the news, until I told them I
would help out if I could.

That's where each of you step in. If each of you could buy just one ticket,
that would sell 30 tickets and I think we would close. If you bring your
spouse or a date and buy two tickets, that would sell 60 tickets and we
would be in for sure.

Please let me know ASAP if you would be interested. (I need to turn the
money in this weekend). Your help would be greatly appreciated by these fine
young men as well as myself.

Thanks,
Dan Bartholemew
DEBartholomew@bwsc.net

Help a kid play hockey

You could call it Classic Console.

Proposed Set-Top MAME Emulation Console

Problem: Microsoft abused it's monopoly status to overcharge customers for its products.

Solution: Increase Microsoft's monopoly status by giving customers more Microsoft products.

dumb.

Microsoft resolves class-action suit - or - Stupidity at its finest

A fairly good article (from the Tennessean no less) about the state of the music industry and how it got here. With some interesting comments from labels, publishers, and distribution people.

The future of music is access to every track, all the time in ... a celestial jukebox - Sunday, 01/12/03