One year ago this month, I opined about taxpayers footing the bill for several college football bowl games. Today, I decided to revisit the college football bowl scene and find out who’s sponsoring this year’s post-season gridiron clashes. [Note: I brought this back to the front page of this blog after it was cross-posted Christmas [...]
Bowl Game Sponsorships Receive Second Look Amidst Year of Bank Bailouts and TARP Loans
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Nuggets of News Cause Blogger to Pause
June 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Surfing through the morning news headlines, I found some nuggets of news that caused me to pause for a moment and thought they might have a similar effect on you: NO CHRYSLER DEALERS LEFT IN DETROIT: Last week, Lochmoor Chrysler Jeep on Detroit’s East Side stopped selling Chrysler products, one of the 789 franchises Chrysler [...]
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Taxpayers Foot Bill for College Football Bowls
December 30th, 2008 · No Comments
It appears writer Eric Crawford was ahead of the journalistic pack with his article that appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal on Black Friday — the one after Thanksgiving, not Christmas. In Bailout Bowl, Presented By You and Me, he highlighted the many instances in which taxpayers — hence, “You and Me” in his headline — [...]
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Detroit Lions Set NFL Record, Go Winless in ’08
December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My friend David Donar at Political Graffiti felt compelled today to commemorate the historic non-achievement of his beloved Detroit Lions in the cartoon above. Today, his team from the Motor City ensured a place in the National Football League’s history books as the first team ever to lose 16 games in a season. Take heart, [...]
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‘Driving Tips’ Offered to Big Three Auto Executives
December 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Despite two recent trips to Washington, D.C. — first by private jet, then by electric vehicle — Big Three executives seem incapable of turning around the no-longer-profitable domestic automobile industry in the face of stiff competition from foreign manufacturers. To help them out, I translated eight winter driving tips (shown in BOLD TYPE below) into [...]
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Detroit Lions Continue ‘Perfect’ Season With Loss
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
The National Football League’s Detroit Lions added yet another loss to their so-far-perfectly-awful season, losing a home game to the Indianapolis Colts, 31-21, Sunday. That loss — the team’s 14th of the year vs. zero wins — must have inspired my friend David Donar at Political Graffiiti to create the end zone art shown above. [...]
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Is Big Three Bailout Plan Another ‘Ponzi’ Scheme?
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s understandable if some Americans find themselves confused as they try to understand the financial headlines making news this morning: An enormous “Ponzi” scheme, allegedly perpetrated by a long-trusted Wall Street legend and former chairman of the NASDAQ, continues to make headlines since becoming public four days ago. Other news articles focus on the possibility [...]
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