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The Dark Christmas Eve

December 23, 2008

The Christmas Eve Night when a major blackout snuffed all the lights in South Georgia. Can we have a candle-lit Christmas Service if the electricity is out?
It might be Christmas Eve to the rest of the world, but to those of us in media it is known as the night every single piece of advertising [...]

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Monday Morning Economics Class

September 13, 2008

The bad news is that all but one of you will be spending tonight re-writing your papers. The good news is you now qualify for public office or a job in the media. Please! please! Practice patting yourself on your back on your own time. You are grotesquing me out with these pretzel movements.

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Throwing Gasoline on the Fire

August 10, 2008

Good Morning class. Open up your economics books to Chapter Four, commodities.
Gasoline is a commodity. That means that no one’s gasoline is that much different from anyone else’s gasoline. Yes Bobby, even Chevron with Techron. These are known as marketing additives. These are used by the marketing departments at large oil companies to convince management [...]

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On Pond Scum – Pee’ing Gasoline

July 6, 2008

It was a curious place to hold a news conference. I was on the piazza of a meticulously restored whitewashed planter’s house somewhere south of Quitman in Brooks County, Georgia slapping at no-see-ums and sipping on iced lemonade with members of the local press. We had all been drawn there by an invitation of the [...]

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Bad Computer Karma

January 14, 2000

John, not his real name but my friend insists that this is a true story, worked at a natural gas company. He was high up in the management food chain, but his people skills reminded one of an elephant. He stepped on people and didn’t even notice the damage.

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