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National

A Woman Scorned…

This post is about abortion. Viewer discretion is advised… When is abortion NOT controversial, so I felt it was necessary to open with the equivalent of a movie black screen MPAA warning… you’ve been warned… The right to have an abortion was decided via Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973 by a 7-2 vote […]

Consumer

Arby’s Had the Meats…

Why can’t chicken restaurants just sell chicken? To that end, Arby’s is now making burgers. But not just any burger… a wagyu burger.  Before I get into what wagyu is, I want to talk about Arby’s… and Burger King… and Dominos Pizza. Everyone is trying to diversify. But is it working? So wagyu beef is […]

Diversity

White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch

This is a documentary more than a film and I’d like to treat it as such with a full feature account of its contents as opposed to a review of the quality of the production. There are no actors with whom a performance needs to be dissected and no story to be told with color. […]

Consumer

Have a Margarita

My introduction to tequila was in a dive college bar in the form of a shot glass. Not a lot of quality attached to that experience… It was more than 10 years later that I took a minute to consider – tequila, like all other spirits has a top shelf too. It happened in New […]

Markets

It’s Actually Not a Dollar…

Did you know that all dollar stores don’t sell item exclusively for a dollar? Like most consumers, it is natural to believe that a store with the word DOLLAR in its name means everything is a dollar. But it really means everything in the store is economical like a dollar… Let me explain… There are […]


 
 
 

 

The 86th Annual Academy Awards

I usually do Oscar predictions; This year I’ve decided to do it in hindsight. The show is over and the winners have been named. Now is my chance to test my perspective and ability to analyze an outcome based on the actual out...
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Facebook’s True Value…

FACEBOOK IS A FLOP ON WALL STREET! For those of you who are surprised, you weren’t thinking about it correctly. From a strictly business perspective, it make sense that Facebook would not do well because collecting friends is...
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Super Bowl XLVI: Double or Nothing

One thing we can count on as Americans is our love affair with Super Bowl Sunday. People who don’t normally watch sports – Football in particular – will stop what they’re doing to attend a Super Bowl party. I gu...
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NBC’s Rock Center: Enough Already!

Rock Center is Dateline by another name. It’s NBC’s attempt to strike gold by gathering as much star power as they can in one place. It could work for the casual viewer, but, as a media professional, it’s just another...
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The Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act is the new law governing healthcare in the United States of America. It’s called THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, not Obamacare. The difference in terminology is the subject of this post… Universal healt...
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Election 2012 Debate #1

I can’t hear another word of analysis about this debate. I’m going to short-step the big picture: Mitt Romney’s performance was better than President Obama’s, which, in basic terms means Mitt Romney won the debate. I ha...
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