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Yeah, that one's been on our Nooz since Wednesday, displacing more routine scary crime stories in TV coverage of LA's daily mayhem.

Damn, when did movie star and/or above-the-line producer/director become a hazardous occupation? They keep dropping from acute knife poisoning.

i think..' planned-obsolescence' gave us walm. P.O. still exists, it's just more psychological. Instead of things falling apart after three years, they just become less exciting to think about. You know, like this current spate of ads on TV sports shows, where everyone's trying to sell you a Defend...

Story in the Nooz that KARS-4-KIDS lawyered up and got the ban at least temporarily blocked by another judge. I keep forgetting that this is no longer our country.

All these statistics are kind of meaningless, given the current public consciousness. Right now the vast majority of people are being squeezed from all directions by inflation, and they're pissed. Been to the gas station or drug store lately? Not happy places. Today's LA Nooz led with the story that...

Well, the solar storm was late. It's in progress now, but it's not exactly the best time of day to be looking for aurora. It's also (so far) kind of piddly, though there's still some time for it to get stronger.

Cars do last longer. Electronics are more durable and need less routine maintenance. (No more changing tubes.) Major computer breakthroughs are less frequent, as it becomes a mature technology, so your box isn't obsolete every year or two. Mostly I watch sports on TV. As a trained film maker, I can'...

"That time, I didn't get to have press follow me everywhere. This one's way more fun."

Not just durability. They put huge ad budgets into creating the illusion that the latest products are so much better than last year's that you can't afford not to update. If even that fails, they resort to fantasies like the current one seen nightly where people drive their shiny new oversized cars ...

Following a series of X-class solar flares, all rather piddly compared to the ones we saw a couple of years back, a fast moving energetic mass ejection caught up with a slow one. This caused a "Cannibal CME." CME is a TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) for "Coronal Mass Ejection." The ej...

As usual, the words of the prophets are written in the funny papers. The only magazine I still subscribe to is Funny Times. It's like a brain pill every month (except in summer, when they don't publish a couple of months due to the economy). Actually, though, the average grunt programmer who took th...

The situation at CBS is a total FUBAR. The right has had its way with them. Most of the rest of the media industry is not much better. All the Republican attacks on our free press, and the private capital buyouts of all the companies involved, finally did what their strategy had been all along. In o...

So far the results in California are inconclusive. They've only counted about half the votes. California is a big state, and it always takes several days to get even close to a count. Congress is partisan, so we won't know red and blue districts until the general election in November. Governor is ju...

More fun facts about the World Cup matches in LA: 1. They are at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, where the Rams play. It's a good place to watch a Rams game, but for the World Cup the nearest parking for ordinary people is one mile away. It also costs several hundred dollars per car. There is VIP parking...

Interesting. The Nooz moved on, and the tank problem no longer exists. There was about 1/1000 the amount of Nooz coverage of the accident in Washington, even though it killed people, which the one in Garden Grove didn't. It's obvious to anyone who is watching with their eyes open that we're seeing e...

Getting back to AI, it's definitely true that the first casualty is campaign spending. The companies are dumping in megabucks all over the place. The consequences of AI, at least in the short term, will not be pleasant. You should try getting a refrigerator delivered in New York. When they refuse to...

If people start to trust AI more than other people, there will be a lot of these kind of problems. One thing for sure is that every time there's a leap forward in military technology, there are unexpected consequences that can border on apocalyptic. In this case AI is being combined with drones. The...

The last LA Olympics were one huge party. It was a blast and a half. The next ones seem to be shaping up as anything but. For a start, the ticket prices are off the planet, and headed for Jupiter or Saturn as the secondary market does what it does best and bids the resale prices up beyond all logic....

Here the latest attack ads in the governor's race have been telling who paid for some opponent's previous attack ads. You would be amazed who's on the list. Not just defense contractors and trump buddies. Practically every union you can think of. Even more disturbing is how nearly every production u...

Anyone getting unpleasant Vietnam flashbacks? The US and Iran are close to an agreement (Dow goes up 1000) . The US and Iran are far from an agreement and the strait remains closed (Dow goes down 1000). [POTUS bombs something. Civilians die. POTUS says he's talking, war almost over. Rinse, repeat.] ...

The ultimate bad day would be having to take shelter from a storm named Teddy. NOAA's forecast for this year's hurricane season is out. Unlike all the doom prophecies coming from the solar-terrestrial people, the atmospheric people say otherwise, though they are hedging their bets. They actually pre...

The most troubling thing about Trump II is his seemingly total control of media content. This is a new one on me. The mission of the press for about a century now has always been to keep the president honest, but this time around it seems as if they've been either bought off or intimidated.

That stuff still for sale? They've been trying to get rid of it since I was in elementary school. Used to be a radio DJ called Paraquat Kelly. Interesting how we hear about things, but they never change.

NY and NJ are now both investigating hanky panky by FIFA regarding ticket prices, which continue to soar higher than Elon Musk's satellites. I think they also got New Jersey to cut the transit fares down from usurious to merely expensive. Next up there will be a flap over LA Olympic prices. I haven'...

We could have had a real and inclusive celebration, instead of another round of well-publicized soirees for the wealthy, but we the people elected the wrong president. Now we have to watch the clown deliver speeches about how cool it makes him every time something happens, including the World Cup an...

Trouble is that they get perfected, and we still don't know for sure whether having a billion satellites all in low Earth orbit with re-entries and launches on a daily basis might end all life on Earth. Several mechanisms have been suggested for this happening. It could short out the equatorial ring...