See? I'm not the only one who resents movie theater ads.

Helpful customer service reps almost make up for AT&T's vile, corporate policies (almost).

I'm old enough to remember a time when there was only one phone company—we called it the phone company. And while the company didn't have any competition, affordable rates or spark of innovation, it did possess a little thing called customer service. You could call Ma Bell for any reason, and in no time at all, a nice man drove up and fixed "your" phone in a jiffy, without charge. Those were the halcyon days of telecommunications. And the other day, I saw a glimmer of it again. Albeit, briefly.

The Repubican Oath: Do Republican politicians know about this?

I was pretty shocked when I came across the Republican Oath. I mean, I grew up a Republican, but I've been voting Democrat ever since George "Mission Accomplished" Bush ran for president the first time. His way-too-far-right, religious zealotry, general ignorance and incompetence forced me Left—onto the side of the people who insist that pet owners be called..."Pet Guardians." Still, this oath makes me wonder who killed the real GOP.

James Madison: U.S. Constitution author, or 18th Century psychic?

Here are a number of oddly prescient quotes from one of the founders of this nation, (and relative of Dolly, the maker of Zingers®, Donut Gems, Angel Food and Pound Cakes).

Scrappy mega-corp triumphs over pathetic, citizen do-gooders.

Now that Bush & Co. are finally out of the White House, it seems unnecessary to keep harping on the unrepentant ethical lapses occurring hourly at FOXNews. But since there seems to be no ebb to the tidal wave of biased "reporting" flooding into American homes, I feel this particular outrage merited mention again due to its spectacular sliminess.

An incompletely researched, half-assed treatise on the demise of trying.

This once-proud nation has fallen on hard times of late. America's manufacturing industry is in the toilet mostly because that toilet was made cheaper in China. Our nation's non-immigrant kids are no longer the best and brightest in math, science or anything that doesn't involve racking their 'nads. And now it seems that even our criminals are getting lazy. They're no longer putting in hard hours or taking dangerous risks. Frankly, it's a national disgrace. So whose fault is the near total demise of the American criminal work ethic? Most likely, yours.

See? I'm not the only one who resents movie theater ads.

Blog | 11.15.05 | By thecroz

Our old buddy Ralph Nader has the same bug up his butt about movies that don't start at the time stated. Forcing ads on captive, paying customers is just one more reason movie theaters need to wise up like ArcLight, or go the way of drive-ins and dodo birds. Until then, give me a hi-def, big-screen LCD with 5.1 surround, my own couch and a few cold beers, any day. No screaming kids, sticky floors or off-center seating. It's the way movies were meant to be seen—in peace.

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