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Thoughts About The Clear Channel Massacre
I'd say that you were pretty much dead on. I'm stationed 3000 miles from my beloved San Diego. I listen to the DSC show nearly every day at home, and at least once a week at work. As soon as that show is over, KGB gets turned off. I have a better selection of music than what they play. I also read the NC Times, Signon San Diego, the Reader, and The Coast News online, again, nearly every day, even when I'm on travel. Speaking of travel, XM does a great marketing ploy, which is to put XM in rental cars (as well as on many airlines). Although the last one I rented had regular radio with what they call "XM Preview," which is not the same thing as XM. Still, I'll be getting XM in our vehicles, maybe the house, as soon as we have some discretionary income coming in. Television and radio just don't get it. Speaking of television, most television is geared to air commercials, with enough programming to keep you interested. And since when does the cable I pay lots of money for feel compelled to sell commercials, even in the "free" movies on On-demand? I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take it much longer.— January 24, 2009 6:08 a.m.
Sports Shorts -- LT and high school violations
Well, it's not just the Chargettes...it's the Madres as well. Managment/ownership seems to be happy if they've got one (or two) big star(s) and a cast of supporting characters. They always have to have a Flannery (remember the "Flanster?"), a Gwinn, a Fouts...you get the idea. If anyone else, like Little Train James, Means, ect., gets too good, they get rid of them. No room for too many stars in this town, and it's not the salary cap. The San Diego teams were doing that long before the caps were instituted.— January 24, 2009 5:53 a.m.
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It was Rev Jesse Jackson who admitted in a Newsweek interview sometime back in the '90s, that he would be afraid if he encountered young black men on the street (after dark, if I recall), but that his fears would be allayed if it turned out that who he thought was black turned out to be white.— January 24, 2009 5:20 a.m.
Sports Shorts -- LT and high school violations
I've been a fan (and an idiot) since the late '70s. I swear every year I'm going to swear off the Chargers, but every year, I get sucked in. The reason is exactly why you said, Josh; it's the policies and practices of the organization itself. Any time the Chargers make it to the playoffs, or even the big dance, it's in spite of the ownership and management, not because of. I live with it as I'm happy whenever they beat the Raiderettes, and the Donkeys. The Patriots are a bonus. That's a successful season in my book, even if they don't win another game. Like the Chargers coming from ahead to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I've learned to settle for mediocrity from the home team.— January 23, 2009 5:52 a.m.
Buying Brides With Beer
And then there are our "friends," the Saudis, who seem to see no problem with marrying an 8 year old girl off to a 47 year old man, for example: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/sau…— January 18, 2009 7:28 a.m.
Bad Customer Service
There's no business doing so well that the youth of today can't ruin it with their entitlement attitude and exasperation at actually having to perform labor. To be fair, most of them haven't had any "bringin's up," as my grandmother used to say. They also don't seem to get anything beyond the most remedial training at their jobs, either. I mean, how hard is it to pick up the empty sugar packs, napkins, and straw covers off the end of table?— January 15, 2009 5:40 a.m.
San Diego Stupid Chargers
"Football players ought to be recognized for what they are...young men who use their bodies to entertain guys drinking beer." You know, Fred, when you say it that way....— January 9, 2009 4:43 a.m.
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Josh: what Pete said. I actually didn't have any aspirations when I was a kid. When asked, I think I was in 4th grade, my response was "make money." That didn't work out so well. At best, I'm white-collar, middle class (in the most liberal application of the phrase). I guess I have made money, in the child mind whose only exposure to money was how critical it was that we didn't have any. Now that I'm in my 50's, and having had a heart attack (hopefully, my only), I am more keenly aware of my mortality than ever, yet I'm still not sure what I want to do when I grow up. Sorry, maudlin moment. Carry on.— January 1, 2009 5:52 a.m.
Signs on the Road
It was a California thing. Normal traffic move to the right unless it was necessary to pass. Of course, I remember when they built the 805, before 5 was a 4-lane. I-15 was still SR-31 back then.— December 31, 2008 4:22 a.m.
Signs on the Road
Remember the signs along the freeways that said "Don't be wrong, move to the right"?— December 30, 2008 7:28 a.m.