Post favorite DrBill
recently shared some personal information about the medical challenges he faces. Post staff is pleased to read he is facing these challenges with the courage and humility necessary to come out on top. "Okay, I am a creature of habit and routine does work for me and it is a good thing because that is what it takes to line up with the schedule here. Rigorous, almost grueling, but doable. I look at this with passion as my full-time job with a potential huge payoff of a full life again." We at Post Time Media speak for all of us when we say, "Godspeed, Dr. Bill."
"I knew that after being unplugged for close to 4 months," writes Post blogger Jim Vail, "there would be snafus getting back, but I was still surprised by the outcome."
Post blogger Michael Conniff, AKA the Con Man, loved the movie "Iron Man" but left looking for the irony in same. "So there you have it," he blogs. "The ironic super-hero who swears he will stop the arms race, only to guarantee by the end of the movie that it will escalate further. What’s wrong with that? Consider that nowhere in the movie’s denouement does Tony Stark betray any sense of foreboding or regret. When the time comes for the final, triumphant press conference, the only thing on his relentlessly narcissistic scumbag mind is whether his assistant, Pepper Pots, played by the beautiful Gwyneth Paltrow, actually loves him; and whether the time has come to tell the world that the great Tony Stark is in fact Iron Man."
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When Robert Downey Jr., the inherently ironic leading man, arrives on the scene in the Marvel Comics blockbuster “Iron Man,” it takes us a beat or two to realize his character, Tony Stark, is a drunk, philandering scumbag who just happens to be in the back of a Humvee in Afghanistan, where bad things are all but guaranteed to happen.
A little stark? You can say that again. But it’s not booze or the references to multiple rendez-vous with pin-ups that make Tony Stark a consummate ass—it’s his status as the greatest arms inventor and dealer in the world. You immediately wonder how in the name of all that’s Uzi are we going to end up liking this hipster merchant of death, a quandary multiplied by the realization that in the Great American Blockbuster Movie you have to end up loving this guy.
And we do.
Suffice to say that post-Afghanistan Tony Stark is both (a) an iconic super-hero; and (b) a pacifist who swears off the military industrial complex like an alcoholic face-to-face with a cold Budweiser on a hot day.
Continue Reading May 18th, 2008
For far too long, conservatives have made political hay with the notion that they are the party of ideas and the party of values—even as they’ve held a far too timid opposition at bay for having neither.
Enough, already.
The free ride is over: conservatives have not had a new idea since The Gipper left office, and it’s about time we saw their “values” for what they really are—anti-American.
Continue Reading May 12th, 2008
When I saw the book “Print Is Dead: Books In Our Digital Age,” my great fear was that Jeff Gomez had found out the great secret I have been carrying around for fifteen years in hopes that nobody would find me out.
Fortunately for me, Gomez—an Internet marketing executive for a book company—made his way through his fascinating dissertation with many compelling observations of his own, though without coming close to my conclusion about the future.
My secret is safe for a few paragraphs more.
Continue Reading April 17th, 2008
The internet, God bless it, sure does make work a whole lot more enjoyable. Who amongst us hasn’t spent time randomly browsing the internet while at work? Everyone does it. It really is a blessing to be able to spend time pursuing a topic of interest, purchasing a book, or planning a vacation on your computer, all while pretending to be working on something job related like a spreadsheet, a memo, or some such ridiculous thing. Prior to the advent of the computer, I can’t fathom how employees wasted time efficiently. They really had it tough.
Continue Reading March 29th, 2008
When Microsoft's Bill Gates appeared this month before a congressional committee demanding a doubling of the current (65,000) caps on high-tech H-1B visas, you might have thought the committee members were celebrating the Return of the Messiah the way they fell all over themselves singing praise, adoration and love for the mega-billionaire. Of course, those of us who know those very members are beneficiaries of the hundreds-of-millions of dollars spread around the congress by IT industry lobbyists, it make sense the "law makers" would be Gates' slobbering adorers.
To hear Gates tell it, the U.S. has a "shortage crisis" in IT workers and if he had his way, there would be no limit on the number of the coveted H-1B visas.
Continue Reading March 26th, 2008
I recently had the pleasure of conversing with Mr. Conman on his radio show concerning our military. I would simplify our positions thusly: The Conman feels we are wasting resources preparing for threats that do not exist. (Michael please correct me if I am in error.) My contention is that we need a strong military as a deterrent to any threats that might develop.
Continue Reading February 12th, 2008
If you think about the epic moments in media that draw us together as a nation—and who doesn’t ponder such things—then you must be watching “The Sara Connor Chronicles” on Fox, the latest version of the “Terminator” movie series that not coincidentally starred the Governor of California as the bad-guy cyborg from the future who learned how to love.
The latest version of a dark future centers on Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor, the teenager who will live on into the future to lead “the rebels” against “Skynet,” the computer network programmed to destroy all humanity. But there’s a twist: cyborgs are dispatched from the future by both the older John Connor and the faceless Skynet to either protect or destroy John Connor, depending on their persuasion. They are literally programmed to terminate his life, and nothing stops them.
The trope is terrific, a chronologic displacement even the novelist Milan Kundera could love. With time travel, robots, and Armageddon, it doesn’t get any better than this. But it’s not science fiction that makes the “Terminator” series indestructible in the good ole U.S.A.: it’s the rebel yell embedded in our DNA.
Continue Reading January 17th, 2008
Has this ever happened to you? It has happened to me at least 4 or 5 dozen times in the past few years. And at least a dozen times each for the Spanish Lotto, the Irish Sweepstakes, Australian Lottery and Thai Lottery. All told, I should be worth in excess of $500 million! Yeah, right!
Continue Reading December 22nd, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)—The Aspen Club and Spa knew its benefit for three embryonic stem-cell pioneers was going to be big.
But the party--and the money raised--turned out to be even bigger than expected.
Club officials are reporting the 30th Anniversary club benefit for Amanda Boxtel, Leah Roland, and Casie Burtard--three young woman heading to India for embryonic stem-cell research--raised more that $100,000, with more than $12,000 raised in the auction of a Labrador puppy.
Continue Reading December 20th, 2007
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