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A few years ago, Google bought YouTube for a nice sum of money: roughly $1.65 billion. Since then, YouTube has grown and flourished, with the backing of Google and its hideously effective viral campaign and easy-to-use embedding. With its addition of a flash re-render to increase compatibility across systems, YouTube set the bar for what all Internet video dump sites would strive to achieve in order to even be considered legitimate.
Even with the massive success that YouTube has brought Google, and the billions in revenue that Google’s shareholders have reaped benefits, it hasn’t been without its rough patches in the road, with some of those rough patches being six-foot pot holes.
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Bernie Madoff played uncle to the world’s rich. He comforted those who had family struggles, promised great things to the Hollywood elite, and controlled a mass of wealth at $171 billion. And all he asked for in return was your trust.
That’s when Uncle Bernie slid the knife into his clients’ backs.
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It’s not been an easy year for any of the world’s economies. The housing market crumbled and took down banks and brokerages left and right, destroyed the American auto industry, which was once regarded too big to fail, and sapped the U.S. economy alone for over $1 trillion in stimulus money attempting to slow the free fall and break us out from the worst economic situation we’ve had in most of our lifetimes.
Unemployment has shot up, with the national average nearing 10 percent, while some metropolitan areas, such as El Centro, Calif., are looking at upwards of 26.9 percent unemployment.
Jobs are hard to come by, and to make matters worse, jobs that pay enough to make ends meet are even more scarce.
There is, however, one group of people that the media keeps claiming are the beneficiaries of the moment: college students. Student loans, scholarships, grants and cheap living make lives for these individuals easier, according to the news outlets and general consensus.
I beg to differ on the matter.
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Americans have what must be the shortest memory of any modern society, eagerly placing the blame on the nearest figurehead available, failing to use reason and rational thinking to seek the root of any problem. Our society has long relied on storytellers to give us the details on a platter, and for us to follow blindly without looking into history and precedent set to determine where the truth may be hidden behind a veil of lies and misdirection.
Take the economy for instance. America blames Bush for our economic turmoil, much to the public’s own ignorance. He provided a convenient scapegoat for all the troubles in foreign policy with the wars around the world to our dismay at our economic stability on the domestic front. His goofy grin and poor public speaking ability allowed the populace to mock him at will, believing him to be incompetent. Unfortunately, competence does not always come hand in hand with charisma, otherwise Obama would be the savior a blind America has hoped for and yet has not seen.
The root of our economic problems sits before our former President Bush. Our problem rests in a man known for his fiasco in Yugoslavia, his bombing of the no-fly zone in Iraq, and the military SNAFU he caused in Somalia. Oh, and he is also known for not knowing the definition of the word ‘is’ and of ‘not’ having sexual relations with one Monica Lewinsky.
Yes, America’s herpes has come out of remission once again: Bill Clinton.
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A common theme for my topics lately seems to be entertainment, and this is a nice little addendum to the story I recently wrote about the criticism in discipline about this highly overrated TV couple.
June 22, 2009 is a day that will go down in TLC infamy. It is the day its cash cow (and the only show that people really tuned in to watch instead of accidentally stumbling upon something interesting during a boring night) may have started its trek toward a fiery demise.
Jon and Kate Gosselin filed for divorce in the Bucks County Courthouse, creating a gossip columnist’s wet dream for the next few days. The stories that have flooded the news about this couple have ranged from various bouts of infidelity with teachers and bodyguards, attending events separately to being extremely hostile toward one another (exactly what the show had displayed in body language as their relationship deteriorated).
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There has been a slew of news material since the start of the year about the parenting and child care choices of our sometimes questionable ‘celebrities.’ We’ve had the octo-mom and her welfare lifestyle even prior to giving birth to the human version of a litter. All of the possible exploitation of her kids and trying to secure a reality TV show and other possible ways of raising her pack of future voters when she decides to run for mayor.
Then there’s the countless adoptions of Angelina Jolie and the new births of kids named Apple, Martini, Dewdrop, Lollygag, and whatever else the Hollywood folk can deem to punish their unwitting children before they learn to speak.
But what perhaps is the biggest mockery of the celebrities and their somewhat questionable habits is one that isn’t questionable at all. Kate Gosselin, from the first successful venture in a real life Brady Bunch family setting, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, was caught on camera spanking one of her kids by the paparazzi. The child was blowing a whistle while her mother was on the phone and was asked to stop, but continued anyway. Doing what parents have been doing up until recently when children began to receive more rights than educated, well-meaning adults, she disciplined the child. There is a saying: “Spare the rod, spoil the child.”
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A few years ago we were mesmerized in the sports world by an unorthodox quarterback by the name of Michael Vick. He did it all. He ran for unheard of rushing yards for a quarterback. Vick could throw off balance with some noteworthy accuracy, across his body, to a receiver three checks down.
It was an amazing thing to watch.
Then someone let the dogs out and Michael Vick’s life turned upside down and his reputation and legacy were decimated in the public eye, while PETA got out its rain sticks and danced on his persona’s grave.
As many know, Vick and friends were accused and proven guilty of running a dog fighting ring, made all the worse through the media’s tendency to create a public execution, and in high definition, color corrected, memory searing detail. Vick went to jail for a bad decision.
Not to justify what he did, but with how often things like this happen all across the world and no one cared at all in the past, Vick got thrown under a bus simply because he was famous. And everyone loves Fido.
Fast forward to 2009.
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This past year has been a rough year for many people. Unemployment skyrocketed. People were being foreclosed on left and right and evicted before you could even finish reading the notice. Stocks tumbled, super corporations filed bankruptcy and went under. But most of all, Motor City USA was pummeled by this recession, with it coming to a head with the demise of a company once deemed too large to fail, General Motors.
After bailouts and bankruptcy, the GM brand is one that has been badly damaged. One won’t know the extent for perhaps several years, and the outcome of the chain of events put into place by their June 1 bankruptcy filing, but the Associated Press reported of a popular method of reinvention.
On top of company restructuring, many companies also opt for renaming their brand.
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When one thinks of pregame rituals for football, many people would consider the prayer part of it. It has been seen in movies like “Varsity Blues,” “The Replacements” and “Remember the Titans.” No one can dispute that it has taken place, and many embrace the practice, but the question has come up in recent years about legality.
The Constitution specifically states that we are to be a country forged not under a single religion, but that we are to embrace those that come from many. Even with Christianity in all of its forms being the majority religious belief, according to a study done in March 2009 reported by the Christian Post, the number of non-religious Americans has doubled in every state from 1990. On top of the decline in Christian believers, the total non-believer population has gone form 8 to 15 percent in the time frame. This includes atheists (no God) and agnostics (not sure), as well as deistics (belief in a higher power, but not necessarily God).
The study also shows that mainline Christianity and Catholicism are on contraction, shedding numbers overall (some minor sects showing small gains, however) while a generic brand of Christianity has begun to consume a good portion of the non-denominational believers.
With prayer still being commonplace in sport, there are even some that wish to have public prayer before games for the crowd to take part in as well. Given the data on the contraction in religious Americans over the last two decades, for us to uphold the rights granted to the populace by our government, this would be an offense against those who are of a non-Christian faith.
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In these rough economic times, people have reorganized their values. If you walk into a restaurant, you see fewer waiters and waitresses. The crowds in the malls have diminished and every few days you hear about a new bank going under, or another car manufacturer turning over control to the court in bankruptcy. Fewer people have made home improvement purchases, gone splurging for new wardrobes and have even had to downsize on housing.
Yet, with all that said, it’s nice to know that Europeans still tickle the American fancy, and they do it better than the Americans could ever.
A great modern philosopher turned lunatic once said, “I feel the need, the need for speed.” Speed is something Americans have loved since we climbed on a horse’s back and told it to run for the sunset. We’ve turned those horses into mechanical horsepower, shelled it in aluminum, carbon fiber and fiberglass. Then we advanced upon that and utilized aerodynamic science from aviation development and created the race car. NASCAR, Formula-1, Indycar and even the urban street racing culture are stem from this tree.
Speed once was the pride of American Muscle, and loud engines that went fast and got 36 feet to the gallon were our adrenaline fixation. The Japanese then created fuel injection, and made cars just as fast, and the Europeans had style; both leaving Ford, Dodge and GM in the dust.
But if there’s one thing America itself hasn’t lost, its our insatiable quest for the better, faster, and most expensive status symbol.
Welcome, the Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur Apollo.
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