Independent Sources has covered in detail the dangers of road riding in Los Angeles, especially on the notoriously dangerous Pacific Coast Highway. However, there are some days when the allure to head out up the highway are simply too hard to ignore. On yesterday’s ride, the waves up and down the coast were 10-15 feet […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Even non-sports fans will want to check out this link. SI’s Pictures From The Year
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A local TV station in Los Angeles will again broadcast a roaring fire all Christmas morning with commercial free Christmas music. In LA this seems perfectly natural though I can imagine others looking at this as another example of the artificial nature of everything we do.
Campy or not, we like it.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Both Wacko Jakko and Kate had tough years from pedophilia trials to being filmed snorting coke. Read:
Topless Kate Moss: the movie that will never go away
Defamer: Michael Jackson’s ‘Neverfed’ Ranch
Michael Jackson Defies Experts and Acts Even More Bizarre
Weekend Edition: “Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird:” Michael Jackson Jury Weak, Corrupt and Immoral
Both lost the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)By being free, Google probably thought they were safe from being undercut by Microsoft. Turns out that might not be so true. Microsoft is floating a concept where they will share their search ad revenue with the users that are generating it. Once again we see that from a consumer’s point of view, competition is […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Here is a question for you media watchers, Who would have thought that Lauren Holly would become such a written-about personality in non-celebrity blogs? Holly herself is probably scratching her head wondering about it. For those of you who don’t know, Holly is an actress who hit the tabloids in the 90s due to her […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Consumers can be funny. They might allow an industry to walk all over them for decades and then all of a sudden they turn on them with a ferocity completely unexpected. The record business has been learning this lesson for the past 5 years. Cable is about to learn it to and the parallels are […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Don’t worry, we are not going to ruin this post with our normal inane commentary. We’ll let the picture stand on its own.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Last month we wrote a posting about Iran’s new nut-in-charge, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and got this comment:
“He is the best president for me and for Iranians.
Be care USA politicians don’t deceive we and you.
Thanks”
For reasons we do not understand we get a fair amount of traffic from Iran (probably checking out stories like this one) so […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When war strikes an impoverished nation, zoos find themselves at the bottom of the food chain. When the money runs out, people are starving and there is rampant mayhem, zoo animals are the last to get fed (and the first to get eaten). With this in mind, no one describes the conditions at Michael Jackson’s […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If you’re thinking about buying a HDTV, why not just smack some “HD” labels on your old set instead? A new study says that would work for many:
According to recent Forrester Research data, HDTV sets will be in approximately 16 million homes across the U.S. by the end of the year. But, Forrester predicts just […]
While making my daily trip to Starbucks, I was greeted with this upsetting sight..
Could there be two less relevant artists than Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb? Tip to Starbucks, just because you can get these two back together doesn’t mean you should do it.
Not to squash dissent but I will delete any comments telling me […]
While shopping at Target today, Independent Sources was asked by four members of Code Pink to not purchase any “war” toys.
Here was our response…
If power swords and zap guns are leading to the moral decline of this country, so be it. Unfortunately, the protesters were gone before my son could try out his new […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Did Bill Cosby, Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Louis Louis Farrakhan, and Whoopi Goldberg team up to shut down David Chappelle? Defamer points us to a web site that makes compelling reading on the subject.
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Independent Sources would like to commend the Los Angeles Times for its Column One story on Scientology and the church’s use of Tom Cruise and his celebrity status. The mainstream media has always had a difficult time with Scientology. On one hand, the Times wants nothing more than expose the “religion” as nothing more than […]
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