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It Needn’t Be THAT Funny, But It’d Better Not Die.
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It Needn’t Be THAT Funny, But It’d Better Not Die.

Yesterday turned out to be a coupla roller coasters for me in more ways than one.  .   The afternoon hours were spent attempting to take advantage of a celebratory day offered up by my employer’s new owners at Magic Mountain, one of the rare trips to an amusement park I’ve made of late.  I did

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Seizing Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory

NOTE:  This musing also appears today on our sister site THE DOUBLE OVERTIME.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional essays on business and technology.  It’s not that easy to be a fan of the Texas Rangers.  I’ve spent enough time in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to know that

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It’s All Greek To Me (And I’ll Wager You, Too)
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It’s All Greek To Me (And I’ll Wager You, Too)

Like apparently most of you, I’ve been doing a little refreshing of my knowledge of THE ODYSSEY, which later today will in all likelihood begin dominating cultural zeitgeist as well as the box office for at least the rest of this month.  So trust me, musings on that are forthcoming. But our good friend Teddy

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It’s Always Been Better To Be Really Good Than To Be LUCKY
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It’s Always Been Better To Be Really Good Than To Be LUCKY

Lately, as more and more people have been finally discovering these musings, I’m asked what did I consider to be the “apex mountain” point of my life,  It’s with more than a touch of wistful irony that I immediately pivot to the early oughts, when my star at FX and what we euphemistically referenced as

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Get Smart Again!
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Get Smart Again!

My “business partner” contends that we are picking up new readers and followers on a regular basis thanks to his array of opinions on everything from the minituae of Chicago sports to his auspiced takes on technology based on his vast experience in the boardrooms–or even the lobbies–of those companies.  I’ve yet to see any

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If Their Scripted Dramas Were This Good, Showtime Would Still Be A Thing
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If Their Scripted Dramas Were This Good, Showtime Would Still Be A Thing

You haven’t seen too much about Paramount content this summer, and not too much all that good about Warner Brothers, either.  So as which practically every outlet with even a remote connection to Universal or Greece has shamelessly dubbed “Odyssey Week” was kicking off it was practically scripted that we’d finally see the long-rumored drawing

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Hey, Teddy!  Did You Ask Your Viewers What THEY Want?
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Hey, Teddy! Did You Ask Your Viewers What THEY Want?

There seems to be an awful lot being written of late by just about everyone who even thinks about Netflix.   There is an overriding reason for all of that, as THE MOTLEY FOOL’s Daniel Sparks pointed out when the stories began to crop up last week: Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) reports second-quarter results on July 16, and

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Survey Says: Eternal
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Survey Says: Eternal

Happy Golden Birthday to FAMILY FEUD.  It was exactly fifty years ago on a humid Monday that ABC’s struggling 1:30 PM time slot infused with what was initially dismissed as a way to take elements from the then top-rated afternoon staple MATCH GAME dressed up in a corny Whitman Sampler package and topped off with

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Summertime And The Viewing’s Easy
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Summertime And The Viewing’s Easy

We are squarely into the summer season; the fact I haven’t experienced a sleeve of any kind on my arms for more than a month are all the receipts you need to prove that point.  Or you could look at your television and see what constitutes as newsworthy.  And yes, in this case I do

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