DuhNooz! Ya gotta have it!
What? Ya gotta need it to buy it? Nahh! Ya gotta know Americans always buy what they want before they buy what they need!
Like all the buzz about Apple’s new iPad, which you get your first chance at tomorrow. The NYT drug up some guy who used to work for Apple in the ’80′s (that’s sure authoritative) and according to him, ““The first five million will be sold in a heartbeat,” said Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was a marketing executive at Apple in the 1980s. “But let’s see: you can’t make a phone call with it, you can’t take a picture with it, and you have to buy content that before now you were not willing to pay for. That seems tough to me.”
Seems like just the thing to me. Ya don’t need it, ya already got stuff that does what it does, it’s expensive, so what. Where’s the line? Le’me in it. Duh-h
And how ’bout the Toyota thing: Toyota snapped back in March from one of its worst months ever, offering generous buyer incentives and boosting U.S. sales 41 percent, compared with the same month last year. How quickly we forget. When you show us the money. That even gets NASA in the game. Regular budget cut? Give’m some of our dough to check out the electronics in all those Toyotas. Duh-h.
About this census thing: New Yorkers are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us, huh? Then how about this from a source who spoke only on assurance of animosity? “By Wednesday, 32 percent of the surveys mailed to New York City addresses had been returned, compared with 52 percent for the country as a whole. Stacey Cumberbatch, the city’s census coordinator, said she was disappointed with the rate so far, adding, “It should be higher, and we have to work to get it higher.” Duh-h
And then there’s Frog Jump:
FROG JUMP, TENN. — But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect “tea party” candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year. –NYT
We’d make that the final stab, on the grounds that we couldn’t top that, but there’s an even bigger Duh-h:
Imagine… Lawmakers on the Senate Agriculture Committee are crafting new rules to oversee the vast, unregulated derivatives market, legislation that could become a central element of a larger regulatory overhaul effort currently headed to the Senate floor. The rest of our guys in Washington are trying to outsmart Wall Street, and they bring out the Agriculture Committee? To try to outsmart the Wall Streeters who figure out the most complicated of the complicated? Double Duh-h
