On the recall. The message here seems to be that when it comes to radio advertisements for gubernatorial candidates, there won't be any. Consider this instructive Catch-22:
Candidates who can't afford the rates charged by chain media such as Clear Channel and Infinity simply can't buy it, while candidates who have the money for the time can't buy it because the chain media won't sell it to them because it an sell the same time to others at a greater profit, or so they say they can, anywyay.
To make doubly sure that the candidates Clear Channel and Infinity don't happen to support can't somehow wiggle their way onto the air, the chains are demanding that the candidates buy the whole network, not just individual station play, thus multiplying the entry cost 71 times.
Judges who personally fear TV cameras in their courtrooms yet still want to appear to be open and fair have adopted a similar dodge. They declare themselves willing to permit cameras in their courtroom provided the stations commit to covering every single minute of every single boring pre-, during and post-trial proceeding, not just the parts the public is actually interested in -- a financially impossible requirement convenient to the motives and goals of the insincere judge. But ostensibly fair-sounding.
ITN reporter's death. If you want the truth, skip the military. They'd rather lie than eat ice cream.
Buy guns; steal butter. The not so secret goal of the GOP and Bush is to punish the less rich for being, well less rich. And the poor? For them it's electrodes to the privates until they confess to being inferior.
Candidates who can't afford the rates charged by chain media such as Clear Channel and Infinity simply can't buy it, while candidates who have the money for the time can't buy it because the chain media won't sell it to them because it an sell the same time to others at a greater profit, or so they say they can, anywyay.
To make doubly sure that the candidates Clear Channel and Infinity don't happen to support can't somehow wiggle their way onto the air, the chains are demanding that the candidates buy the whole network, not just individual station play, thus multiplying the entry cost 71 times.
Judges who personally fear TV cameras in their courtrooms yet still want to appear to be open and fair have adopted a similar dodge. They declare themselves willing to permit cameras in their courtroom provided the stations commit to covering every single minute of every single boring pre-, during and post-trial proceeding, not just the parts the public is actually interested in -- a financially impossible requirement convenient to the motives and goals of the insincere judge. But ostensibly fair-sounding.
ITN reporter's death. If you want the truth, skip the military. They'd rather lie than eat ice cream.
Buy guns; steal butter. The not so secret goal of the GOP and Bush is to punish the less rich for being, well less rich. And the poor? For them it's electrodes to the privates until they confess to being inferior.
When it comes to justifying the financial costs of the war, Bush's hand is actually weaker than LBJ's was. Johnson argued that the United States could afford guns and butter simultaneously, that we could find the resources to save Vietnam from communism even as we built the Great Society -- establishing Medicare and federal aid to education -- here at home. Bush must argue that we can afford guns and tax cuts, that we can find the resources to reconstruct Iraq, though we must neglect the reconstruction of our power grid and our health care system so that we can shower the rich in trillion-dollar tax giveaways. Worse, he must argue for funding the aftermath of his war even as the constant decline in American jobs continues apace, and he seems powerless to arrest it.
The nervousness that suddenly hangs over the Bush White House is well deserved: The president has lost control of the situation he created in Iraq and of the American economy as well. It is not Bush's fault that this is the first truly global recovery, that American corporations now rebound by hiring (when they hire at all) abroad rather than in the States.
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