Prepare For The Return Of Balloon Boy

Would you have hired Michael Jackson to work at your daycare?  Probably not.  But that's essentially what is happening now that the balloon property is being returned to the balloon family of balloon boy. 
http://gizmodo.com/5542073/original-balloon-boy-balloon-returned-to-hoax+creating-family
What's worse than the balloon boy hoax?  How about the endless hours of coverage about the balloon boy hoax that we were subjected to?  Yes - that was bad, but allowing the hoaxers access to the hoaxing device again is sheer lunacy.  If this ends up in a reality program we will have reached a new low in the areas of news coverage, law enforcement, and entertainment programming.

Community Is Gilligan's Island

It dawned on me as I was watching an episode of NBC's Community...that it is essentially Gilligan's Island re-born.  Submitted for your anlaysis:

Both shows have 7 main characters
Within those characters, 4 are men and 3 are women
The zaniness is limited to the confines of their surroundings
Both shows are funny (ok - not much merit here)
Here is it broken down by character:

So there you have it.
Einhorn is Finkle
Finkle is Einhorn
What's old is new again.

American Gladiators

Somehow this show made it to air in two separate series:

1989–1996
2008

The show is currently in hiatus, but not officially cancelled.  According to Wikipedia, it may show up at a later date on another network.  NBC still has an active page for it.

Its inevitable that this show will re-surface; and eventually it will turn itself into the Running Man, or the competition from Idiocracy.  We can only hope.

It's Effin Science

G4 is spinning off a segment from Attack of the Show called It's Effin Science in June.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704128/its-effin-science-comes-to-g4-in-june.html
I am generally a fan of G4 and Attack of the Show, so I'm going to give it a try.  However, the title is sort of funny - and it made me think that this might be how we have to title courses in high school or college in the future...

Effin History - From the Past
That Damned Numbers Class
Friggin Phyzicul Edge-UK-Shin

And there would be field trips...

Bailouts Waiting To Happen

News came today of United Airlines and Continental Airlines "merging".  This will undoubtedly be the same type of merger where Delta swallowed up Northwest and became the worlds largest airline.  Now United may become the worlds largest airline.  Indeed both United and Delta are the size of the earth itself and it's merely a matter of time before they are failing and we will end up with the bill.

More incredible is how (up until now) Delta has been touting themselves as the world's largest airline in their marketing - as if that's endearing to the flying public.  Considering the size of these companies and the impact on employment, transportation, and other factors - what reason do we have to believe that these companies won't end up in the same scenario as GM, Chrysler, or the large financial corporations that were bailed out? 

If these companies become too big to fail they should be deemed too big to exist.  Delta should not have been allowed to eat Northwest, and United should not be allowed to absorb Continental.  Get ready for for less choice, higher prices, and the inevitable bailouts.  Thanks Wall Street!  This is going to bite all of us in the ass.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_bi_ge/us_united_continental
(Fat cat picture courtesy of a Gizmodo post about AT&T)