• Archive for January 2nd, 2008

    Eagles/Jared Diamond/Smashing Pumpkins

    Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

    I’ve been a bit delinquent in uploading some pix folks have fired off wearing the Bubba Dog gear.  Here’s a few:

    Max and FriendMax at Huntington statue of Duke KahanamokuSue, Margaret, Mary Ellen and Caren Girls in SweatshirtsMikey Doyle in Cape May

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    Thank God that Eagles season has come to a close. What a soap opera. Was it me or did the off the field b.s. get more media play than the games themselves? Good riddance Eagles 2007.

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    Educate yourself this New Year.  Here’s a good article in today’s Times by Jared Diamond, a Pulitzer Prize winning author for his non-fiction book entitled Guns, Germs and Steel and a geography professor at UCLA.  While we all wish for better lives for those in less developed countries, rising consumption levels of those countries (including China) could bring catastrophe. Check it out…. What’s Your Consumption Factor?”

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    An article in British paper The Independent.  Here’s a vignette:

    Here comes the world’s newest superpower. The rest of the world is gloomily contemplating economic slowdown and even recession. Not in Beijing. China is set to make 2008 the year it asserts its status as a global colossus by flexing frightening economic muscle on international markets, enjoying unprecedented levels of domestic consumption and showcasing itself to a watching world with a glittering £20bn (about $38 billion) Olympic Games.

    The world’s most populous nation will mark the next 12 months with a coming-of-age party that will confirm its transformation in three decades from one of the poorest countries of the 20th century into the globe’s third-largest economy, its hungriest (and most polluting) consumer and the engine room of economic growth.

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    It seems like it’s been 12 years since MTV played videos. Billy Corgan was ahead of his time. Great songwriter:

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