1---Congrats to the UK football team for a winning season and
an upcoming bowl game. Did you catch all the extra bonus money the coaches
got for this? Now, they worked hard and deserved some recognition,
but did they work any harder than the players? What money did the
players get? Any bonus for them?
Is this to open the argument about whether college players should
be paid? Yes; don’t know where I stand on this, yet, but it’s an
argument UK needs to hold.
2---speaking of coaches being paid, I know it’s a legal product and
we all need one, but it just seems to me to be “unseemly” (for want of a
better word) for Coach Cal to be pitching mattresses...or don’t you
agree?
3---And Yes, living 3 months longer is important..but have you
noticed that “big news” shared in very large letters on the top of
buildings by a certain drug maker, hides the very small print that their
drug increases life by 3 months on the average.
4---Have you noticed how quiet the pollsters have been since their
defeat in the general elections..not even much soul searching, or where
the mistakes were, or even promises to “do better." For another view
on “the polls” read the obit for Louis Harris in the Sunday H-L, who can
be considered the Father of modern polling, a term he disliked. Read
why. (And congrats to the H-L for a most interesting year-end section of
news pix of the year.)
5---Speaking of year-end, once again major news organizations are
doing their lists of top stories of the year, before the year is
over...running the risk of leaving out a major story happening, as it
has, in the final days.
ABC ran its show on Dec. 20th, including the “hottest trends” of
the past year. Now the “mainstream media” have been plenty critical of
mixing news and entertainment (and correctly so) which some news
programs and channels do. And NBC this Saturday will spend 2 hours
looking back on the year’s “buzziest” stories. Sometimes “the media” is
its own worse enemy.
I'm just sayin'...
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