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Monday, February 02, 2004

Interesting essay from Robert B. Reich in the NY Times on the Democractic party, The Dead Center.

I don't buy into Howard Dean's populist rhetoric, so for me there's no reform movement. Whatever happened to Bill Clinton's democratic rhetoric? I loved his stuff.
My college alma mater makes the NY Times for sports, Grinnell's Unusual Style Leads Nation in Scoring.

Sunday, February 01, 2004

Favorite superbowl ads:

Sony - the cute guy getting excited over the TV system

McDonalds - the husband hitting on his wife after he accidentally throws a McDonalds wrapper in dryer. So gross but very funny.

NFL Network - Jerry Jones, Bill Parcells and various NFL players (the losers) singing "The Sun will come up tomorrow" from Annie. Still my favorite spot.

NFL.com - some kind of ad spot about advertising with the NFL and one of the sports announcer saying "Being rich is muy bueno". What was that about?

Nextel - the race car driver scoring a touchdown with his car on the football field.

AOL - the guy going on his motor cycle and saying he came back from the Renaissance. How funny is that and that outfit.

Budweiser - wrong lipstick ad

Bud Light - Cedric bikini wax

Check this site out from IFfilms to replay most of the superbowl 2004 ads.
So when Justin Timberlake ripped Janet Jackson's shirt off, and we glimpsed her breast I thought it was deliberate and she wearing a pasty over her nipple.

I had no idea that was I was seeing was the real thing. Oooops!

No wonder Phil Simms and and Brian Gumbel were very disturbed and made all those nasty comments about the half time show.

Honestly, I thought they were trying to compete with the lingere bowl on pay per view.

Check out The Drudge Report for what she was really showing. It's very odd looking.
So the folkloric tale out there is that if the AFC wins the Superbowl, then the markets go down and it's a bad year economically. If the NFC wins, then the economy goes like gangbusters.

My favourite stockmarket futurist said the Dow will go up to 12,000 in 2004, so he predicted that the Carolina Panthers would win the Superbowl. I wonder what he'll say now that they've lost.

The guy has got a heck of a stock market stock hit rate, so I'm hoping the market will go up anyway despite the fact that New England won.

I'm thinking index funds will be worth buying now since the Dow is at 10,000. Once the Dow goes up to 12,000 better to sell and get out, then to take a loss. No way will the Dow be able to sustain 12,000 for very long.