July--like a Rug ?

Today is July 1--the beginning of the Fiscal New Year! So happy Fiscal New Year to those of you who have a fisc left to celebrate with. It is also the birthday of my youngest son and two eldest grandchildren--so happy birthday all. . . .

It is the twentieth anniversary of WFAN as well. Do you think that all talk sports radio is a blessing or a curse ? "Sports Radio: Threat or Menace" is an article I'm considering. In art, first there was the Age of Modernism and then Postmodernism--whatever that is (probably nothing to do with the New York Post. The New York Post is an institution that disproves the theory of evolution, it's editors/publishers having begun with Alexander Hamilton, but whose current publisher is Ruppert Murdock.) By analogy, we have just lived through the Information Age. With the web, talk radio, a plethora of talking head cable news stations, instant messaging, twitter and You Tube, Face book, My Space, and text messaging, can we call this the Age of Too Much Information? If you don't think so, wait until you get bombarded with the sex lives of Michael Jackson and Mark Sanford at the same time. Do you expect to see a tabloid headline "Mark Sanford is Father of Michael Jackson's Kids?"

If you don't think this is the Age of Too Much Information wait until you get your next discovery motion with an "information hold" request all all emails, IMs, and correspondence. Is an "information hold" that space at the bottom of your ship ?

Today on WFAN someone referred to the Mets as "scrappy." "Scrappy" is a contraction of "It's" and "Crappy." "Scrap" is what is left over after you've made something valuable.