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Zennie Abraham The popular, Grammy Award-winning Lady Antebellum elected to cancel their planned concert show for this week, and in the wake of the collapse of a 50-foot-high stage just before the Sugarland performance at what is called the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand last Saturday at the Indiana State Fair. The tragedy killed five people, four at the … Read more
Last week will probably go down as one of the worst in BART’s history. But the assumption is that it was bad for BART’s riders and management – forgotten in all of this controversy were BART’s workers. The people who make BART work every day, running the trains and helping passengers, picked Monday to add … Read more
Contrary to what some readers angrily claimed it would not do, the Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into the BART Cell Phone Service Interruption Scandal. The claim in this space was that BART’s turning off station cell phone service last Thursday night wasn’t legal, and the blog post upset many people. But the … Read more
When I met and talked to Professor Cornell West and Talk Show Host Tavis Smiley at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, the concern then was, as Professor West put it, how we (African Americans) use the historic election of Barack Obama as what was then the Democratic Party’s first black presidential nominee as a force … Read more
Just call Texas Governor and new Republican presidential candidate ‘Pay To Play Perry.” As I write this, Mark Halperin’s back on MSNBC (after getting too big for his pants in talking about President Obama) talking about Rick Perry in sloppily glowing terms that only a conservative like Halperin can. It’s not surprising Rick Perry’s problems … Read more
In less than one week, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Computer Network has shown signs of extreme vulnerability, and now, after Sunday’s computer hacker attack to its website, BART should consider alternative, emergency methods of running trains on the system. The reason is that, while BART says the website is “wholly separate” from … Read more
The CMA (or Country Music Association) Music Festival aired today on ABC, and managed to take both Google and Twitter by storm, with groups like Lady Antebellum hitting the Twitter Top Trends list. But the one group that garnered the most attention was The Band Perry. The Band Perry wowed observers by bringing what one … Read more
This, the Sugarland Stage Collapse Indiana State Fair Tragedy, is simply the most horrifying video this blogger has ever posted. On Saturday, as the country band Sugarland was preparing to perform, powerful winds and thunderstorms were building. To the credit of the event organizers, they were evacuating people from the area around the stage when … Read more
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, in a development shocking to some, but pleasing to this blogger, won the Ames Iowa Republican Presidential Straw Poll, beating back a field of her competitors, most notably Congressman Ron Paul. And in other news covered here before, BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, is being unfavorably compared to former Egyptian … Read more
Autism has grown from a condition not widely known or understood 25 years ago, to part of the public conversation today. It’s estimated that one of 110 children is autistic, and even notables like Albert Einstein and Daryl Hannah have had autism as kids. Autism, or the developmental disorder said to impact “the first 3 … Read more
Yesterday’s action where the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Rapid System took the step of interrupting or blocking cell phone service has increased from the first blog post on this, the one in this space, charging that BART’s act was not legal, to a much Twitter-tweeted matter where BART’s action was consistently said not to be … Read more
At 12:59 PM, or about 7 minutes ago as of this writing, The Bay Area Rapid Transit System or “BART” issued an updated statement regarding its rationale for the controversial and apparently illegal cell phone blocking actions of last night, in an effort to stop a rumored, planned protest from “going viral.” This is the … Read more
A BART mole? Obviously there are some people who don’t like it when this blogger questions institutions like The Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART). Take someone who goes by the name “Tiny Tiger.” (Who the heck would make a Yahoo! email address calling themselves “Tiny Tiger?”) At any rate, “Tiny Tiger” was angry that … Read more
Here’s an update on the BART cell phone blocking action. BART does not consider the action illegal, rather they claim the action, according to CNET, was “within their legal rights.” This blogger called BART media relations, but has not received a return phone call, as of this writing. Legal or not, BART’s actions of yesterday … Read more
The BART action to block cell phones (one that’s not legal, by the way) as part of a plan to thwart a protest at San Francisco Civic Center Station became national news today. I know this, because CNN just aired a news segment that came on here in Georgia, where I am visiting my Mom. … Read more
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney be warned: the talk about you is not favorable. This blogger has, after five days of trying and now one week after my birthday, finally managed to score a flight from San Francisco to Chicago with the planned connection to Atlanta. But there’s one problem: the Atlanta flight from O’Hare … Read more
PGA Championship Golf – Tiger Woods and Steve Williams Is The Draw – The PGA Championship will start tomorrow, Thursday, August 11th, at the Atlanta Athletic Club. You’d think the PGA Championship buzz is about the current winners, but no – it’s about Tiger Woods, still The World’s Greatest Golfer, and his now ex-caddie, Steve … Read more
That’s the headline: “BART’s Busy Week, And It’s Wednesday! (Mass Transit News)” Yep. It’s not just the asbestos removal program that’s transformed San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit System) Montgomery St. Station into something out of the Andromeda Strain, it’s last night’s shut down that, thank God, this blogger just missed, having made a … Read more
Mark it here: Scott Walker will be out at Wisconsin’s Governor in 2012. The Tea Party Movement will not survive 2012. While some democrats and left-leaning blogs like The Huffington Post, acted as if Dems lost, actually Democrats won, taking two incumbent Republicans out of six down, and leaving the Wisconsin Senate with a one … Read more
As the flurry of lawsuits flies between a number of parties involved in the Chevron Ecuador mess, it’s just a matter of time before one of the, by last personal count six, law firms involved in it start to get testy about blog posts. Presenting the legendary Philadelphia law firm of Kohn, Swift & Graf. … Read more
BART Powell St SF Project To Clear Asbestos Underway – Mass Transit News. Last week on Friday, as this vlogger was headed to something called the SFChefs (vlog to come), I noticed a giant tarp that covered much of one side of what was a wall at the North Entrance to the Powell Street BART … Read more
Did Gov Walker Stage Wisconsin State Fair Race Attack? This blogger thinks so. Last week, reports came out that “500 Black Youth” attacked white visitors to the Wisconsin State Fair. Then came the predicable reactions and all of the resurfacing of the White Supremacists, who crawl out of their holes whenever they think something that … Read more
On Wednesday, the State of Wisconsin will take up a recall election that will test the staying power of the GOP Tea Party. Six Republican legislators have been successfully placed in position for this historic recall election. To show you just how angry Wisconsin voters are, take a look at the video above. It was … Read more
Texas Governor Rick Perry is, to this blogger, a very scary guy and the speech he gave at the Response religious event of two days ago only makes me shudder all the more. It’s not so much that Governor Perry gave the speech, but how he did it: trying to fake muster the language and … Read more
Former New York Giants Tight End Kevin Boss joined the Oakland Raiders this weekend, replacing Zack Miller, who took advantage of the free agency market to bolt for the Seattle Seahawks. In this video posted by matheinazman on YouTube, Boss was introduced by Raiders Head Coach Hugh Jackson, who said that the Silver and Black … Read more
Continuing with my Comic Con 2011 look back, and thanks to my friend Christine who was helping me, I met Rufus Dayglo, the author of Tank Girl. Christine struck up a conversation with the London-based Rufus Dayglo at one side of the IDW Publications booth, while I was interviewing Ben Wagner about his new novel … Read more
Bad news for San Francisco bar hopping patron like this blogger. The famous Johnny Rockets which sits prominently on the corner of Chestnut and Pierce in the Marina District has, for 25 years, been the temporary one-hour home for drunks, bachelors and bachelorettes, hook-ups, frat boys, sorority girls, late-night workers, and everyone else, has closed. … Read more
As of 10:22 AM PDT on Monday, August , 18 of the top 20 Google Trends concern the economy. In this order, the keywords are: djia, dow jones industrial average, tsp, stock market today, mortgage rates, stock quotes, s p 500, bac, cnn money, gld, silver prices, new york stock exchange, yahoo finance, gold prices, … Read more
The Standard & Poors’ rating agency decision to reduce the United States’ long term debt from AAA to AA+ was explained in a press release that specifically mentioned “the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues,” should, itself, make headlines like “Standard And Poors Blames U.S. Credit Rating … Read more
“Standard And Poors Blames U.S. Credit Rating Reduction On Republicans.” The title above may upset some conservatives and of course those who consider themselves Republican, but it’s true. Standard And Poors, or if you like Standard & Poors – in ether case, the rating agency that assigns a grade for the long-term debt of nations … Read more
Rightfully, given lead “Lago Agrio Plaintiffs” lawyer Steven Donziger worked for them, the law firm of Kohn, Swift & Graf was ordered to turn over all documents to Chevron lawyers in the Chevron Ecuador case. The bet in this space is that Chevron’s going to make hay with what they find. According to Law.com, “Southern … Read more
Well, some are making fun of Stacy Keibler’s past as a female wrestler, now that she’s dating George Clooney. But that was a while ago – the “Guns” are gone and replaced by a skinny-mini blonde model look and a noted talent for dancing. But even with all this Miss Keibler still claims she can … Read more
Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior launch at Comic Con 2011 was the catalyst for one of the best interviews I’ve ever done. Originally, the panel was to include horror movie legend Wes Craven, but he had to back out at the last minute “due to unforeseen circumstances.” Still, the Comic Con 2011 press event that featured … Read more
“Academy News, Oprah Award, Heather Locklear, Nicole Kidman’s Legs,” may seem like a weird mix, but it’s all Hollywood and AMPAS. After a bit of a self-imposed break, this blogger’s back to posting news on the Academy Awards, but this time with an eye toward giving it a better “boost” in search – I want … Read more
Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped 512 points, the largest single-day selloff since the events of September 18, 2008 caused wide-spread financial panic and near-economic collapse. But the big difference is that there was no run on the banks – it was just the stock market itself. On September 18, 2008, within hours, … Read more