The Mississippifarian

One of the local media pundit games is making fun of the dead tree publications while trying to make a horse race out of the competition between the new online news groups. But all news consumers really want is good reporting.

Whatever you may think of the new City Pages crew, if you love medical mystery shows, you have to read Beth Walton’s Mystery illness fells young man. A great read filled with horror stories of hospital politics and doctors who fear litigation more than the death of a patient. Even at the Mayo Clinic.

Anyone who thinks our medical system still works, has probably never put it to the test. It’s not about making people better, it’s about managing a very large business and not getting sued in the process.

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Just got an automated call from Merchant Circle, a Citysearch venture. I’m pretty sure my client never signed up for this program, and because I’m the contact person I get automated calls on the infrequent occasions when someone tries to hook up with them. 

Note to Citysearch: successful businesses have no reason to partner with strangers. Your recommendation is worthless because you are whores who are only interested in money. 

A radical step, but I just let Citysearch know that if they can’t stop the calls and remove my client from their new program, her business will stop advertising with Citysearch altogether. 

I’m stunned by this development, but of all the industries in this country, the marketing folks appear to have become one of the most clueless of the lot. Watching the game last night I saw Yellowbook graphics on screen that are at least five years from representing available search technology. Worse, the “yellow pages” books have been the worst adapters of internet technology. Google eats their lunch (breakfast, dinner and snacks) daily. Google gives you information, Yellow Pages sites just tell you who paid for a listing.

If you are promoting a business, don’t use Yellow Pages or newspaper advertising unless you’re very confident you know what you’re doing. And, if you use Yellow Pages, frankly, I don’t think you have a clue. Ask someone under 30 when the last time they used the Yellow Pages was (hard copy or online). I’m betting some of the people you talk to won’t even know what Yellow Pages are.

Ditto all the online networking crap. Please do not contact me regarding any social networking group you’re involved in. I suckered for some early on, and now I have a Facebook account for life because it would take me at least half a day to even try to unconnect from those unscrupulous, lying, database-abusing fucknuts.

UPDATE: A partial victory. Citysearch just called me and Merchant Circle is only listed as their partner because that was part of Citysearch’s strategy for containing Merchant Circle and stopping them from making robo calls. As it turns out, the calls I’ve been receiving were for me, and not the restaurant. And by me, I mean my all but defunct writing business. It seems clear now that the only villain in this piece is Merchant Circle, an odious, vile, robo-calling bunch of predatory pricks with a worthless business model but enough venture capital that they now brag of having automatically called and harassed every business in the USA four times already.

Merchant Circle is a cancer afflicting online marketing, run by tools on behalf of fucktards. Fuck Merchant Circle and all the despicable shits who work for them.

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Danny Ainge was named Top NBA Exec yesterday. It’s not a category they keep stats for, but Kevin McHale should have gotten an assist (which, on the Wolves books would be recorded as a turnover).

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You can think like a Republican and figure that 50,000 Chinese are just a drop in the bucket, or you can be staggered by this enormous loss of human life. They just suffered almost as many deaths in day as we did during the entire Vietnam conflict.

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Is it just my imagination, or are all the people harping about HRC’s gender her supporters? Obviously, they’re the only ones making detailed lists of the gender offenses against Clinton (failing consistently to distinguish between “our” jokes and Republican attack merchandise).

Plenty of ugly crap has been circulated about Obama, but his camp wisely ignores most of it. They certainly don’t sit around making lists of offenses against the candidate. Winners rarely do.

My increasing (by the day) dislike of Hillary Rodham Clinton stems not from her gender, but from her actions. Actions that remind me strongly of her goatish husband and his Darwinesque Rubinomics that helped ensure the new century would be all about transferring wealth from workers to Wall Street. That and the little matter of the fact that SHE VOTED FOR BUSH’S WAR. That alone disqualified her in my book. Edwards at least apologized. This Clinton will never apologize, anymore than her bent-dick hubby ever did. They are both far too selfish to ever admit fault.

Also, as a writer, I’d like to ask that the phrase “slouches toward” be permanently banned. That or you should have to make a payment upfront to Joan Didion. (C’mon, the major riff on her famous essay title was in ‘96!)

Oh, and here’s that Hitler video again. Don’t like it? Eat it. You would have never have seen anything like this if Clinton had known when to quit. Poor losers are routinely mocked by our society. Being a girl has nothing to do with it. I’ll keep putting up links to it until the Clintons call it quits. 

And yes, she has every right to keep running. What she doesn’t have is the right to criticize the presumptive nominee. Yes, she’s been better lately, but I have no doubt that more damage is coming because she’s not running a Huckabee-just-in-case campaign. She’s running for all she’s worth, and what the hell is that about?

Over means over, and this one is done. Losing isn’t easy, but refusing to admit defeat just makes it worse.

That and the creators of Hillary’s Downfall deserve a Pulitzer.

[Just to be "fair," here's another video calling Obama a Hitler. Lots of laffs to be sure  — not. The Hillary video, whatever you think of it, is funny. Barack Obama is the Next Adolf Hitler is pure propaganda. Watch it to the very end, it's not a joke, and it's all done on HRC's behalf. Ugly, ugly stuff with loads of misspellings and tons of factual errors. To be very fair, I have to wonder if it's not an outsourced RNC project done just to exacerbate the conflicts in the Democratic party. "GavinVox68" is either a Limbaugh stooge, or just some gutter slime. Either way, he did put together a totally objectionable video with no redeeming qualities, layers of horseshit and lies, and a complete disrespect for the presumptive nominee. (Not unsurprising since his second choice is the racist Ron Paul.)]

I don’t want this to be a political blog, but if Hillary doesn’t SHUT THE FUCK UP pretty soon, I’m going to start sharing my Hillary porn collection with you.

Today’s outrage took place in Philadelphia where she cheerfully brought up Wednesday night’s disgraceful debate again. 

Clinton said Friday that getting tough questions is part of what happens in a debate and campaign. “Having been in the White House for eight years and seeing what happens in terms of the pressures and the stresses on a president, that was nothing,” she said.

AP

But that doesn’t really sum it up. What sent my ire soaring was hearing Clinton say that on NPR just now and listening to that vile, nasty braying erupt from her piehole, sarcasm dripping from every syllable.

Enough is enough is enough, and I think next Tuesday Pennsylvania, a state Clinton’s had in the bag since last year, will reject her emphatically. We’re past the point where near tears will move the voters. Even HRC’s supporters have had their fill of her incessant need to be on top.

Maybe not the worst Presidential candidate ever, but the fact she’s married to Bill Clinton (and vice versa) is perhaps the best proof we have that there is a god, and she’s got a nasty sense of humor.