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Archive for November, 2005
Monday, November 21, 2005 Jury awards are laughable By Len Butcher A civil jury has found actor Robert Blake responsible for the death of his wife and awarded her children $30 million. Blake, if you remember, was found not guilty in his criminal trial where he had been charged with her murder. Whether I think he’s guilty or not is irrelevant, but I find the [...]
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Monday, November 21, 2005 Weekend roundup By Steve Sebelius A few thoughts about a few things that were in the weekend paper(s):
• A group of 32 attorneys general have signed a letter urging Hollywood filmmakers to add anti-smoking messages to the DVDs of movies that depict smoking. “We’re urging [studios] to do more. The industry’s leaders are responsible Americans, and I’m sure they’re [...]
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Monday, November 21, 2005 Saturday’s show with Jon Stewart By Steve Sebelius As a big fan of comedian Jon Stewart and his fake-news program, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, we at Various Things & Stuff were really looking forward to Stewart’s appearance at this weekend’s Comedy Festival.
And we were not disappointed.
Stewart rocked with a standup routine that hit everybody from President George W. Bush [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 Expensive land makes housing unaffordable By Ian Mylchreest It isn’t exactly buyer’s remorse but industry players are complaining that the BLM’s auction process is contributing to Las Vegas’ lack of affordable housing.
The complaints add up to a call for more land — much more land — to be put on the market to push down prices. Presumably, if there were more supply … [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 Bubbles are so 1990s By Ian Mylchreest World Wide Web booster John Battelle explains in an op-ed article in the New York Times why the current Internet boom is not like the bubble of the dot com era.
It’s hard not to think it’s a boom when Google stock is selling for $400 but two things are very different now. The cost of [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 No honor By Steve Sebelius They say there’s no honor among thieves, but criminals may look like saints compared to some Republicans in Washington, D.C.
And no, we’re not just talking about the House budget bill that cuts programs for the poorest, most needy Americans, and a companion bill that cuts taxes for the richest, most well-off Americans. That’s simply [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 The sound of silence By Steve Sebelius How hard is it to write an entire column about the controversy over golf course developer Bill Walters’ sweetheart deal with the city of Las Vegas and not mention Mayor Oscar Goodman?
Ask Goodman’s biographer, Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith.
Smith, in his column today writes that the city is getting taken by Walters, mostly [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 Here comes convergence at last By Ian Mylchreest The news that Cisco Systems is buying Scientific-Atlanta is evidence that the long-predicted convergence of entertainment and the Internet is well under way.
Back in the 1990s, Bill Gates led the way in predicting that computers and television would be the key convergence. Microsoft and others were working on software to allow small boxes to sit [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 Beware identity theft By Len Butcher I was surprised to read recently that a report released by the Census Bureau showed that only 55 percent of American households had access to the Internet at home in 2003. I would have thought it was much higher, but then again, that was almost two years ago, so the percentage figure could have taken [...]
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Friday, November 18, 2005 GM is disappearing piece by piece By Ian Mylchreest A great icon of American business is slowly disintegrating, selling off its valuable pieces just trying to stay viable.
The Daily Deal is reporting that private equity outfit Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is heading a private equity consortium that may offer to buy the auto giant’s residential mortgage division.
Residential Capital Corp. as the unit is called, was [...]
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