Today's Tids Issue 5,344
You just gotta laugh:
Soft: Pleasing or agreeable to the senses : bringing ease, comfort, or quiet; having a bland or mellow rather than a sharp or acid taste; not bright or glaring : subdued; having or producing little contrast or a relatively short range of tones; smooth or delicate in texture, grain, or fiber; moving or falling with slight force or impact; not violent.
Those are some of Webster’s dictionary definitions of soft, which Wall Stret Mavens are now saying is how the rancorous current stock market might end. Gently. Have hopes.
Just so you know about the inevitability of energy distribution, Shell USA just bought Volta, a large EV charging stations network operator. EVs are about 6% of cars sold now, if you are counting.
A good and intelligent friend of mine would vote for Condy Rice for President in a heartbeat. But I suspect that she is way too smart to jump into the four-year bloodbath
Upon leaving office, Franclin Piersce said when asked what he planned to do: “There's nothing left to do but get drunk”.
The Question:
In 1934 an incredibly famous Radio Amateur Hour talent show was premiered, and it went on to TV with a new name the top after the founder died i. Who was the founder and the equally famous successor, and name five well known performers discovered on those shows.
The Headlines:
--Markets In Positive Territory at Mid-Morning, But Dip Deeply At Noon; December Retail Sales Fall More Than Expected; Producer Proce Index Declines; US Household Savings Dwindling.
--Microsoft to Cut 10,000 Jobs; PC and Cloud Revenue Growth Slowing.
--Ukraine Helicopter Crash Kills Ukraine Interior Minister and 17 Others; Crash Near Kindergarten Kills Three Children.
Could it be that the Flying Nun and the Goat are an item? Tom Brady said he felt a little twinge when playing in a scene with Sally Field for a soon to be released movie. Which looks awful, by the way. The Goat and the Flying Nun from the Grin brothers.
Lopping off 10,000 people at the tech giant sounds like MicroHard to me.
I thought Davos was about the global economy, but it seems like a playground for elite green dreamers.
I hear that Helio Castroneves might run in the Daytona 500. I would be rooting for that bright shining Indy winner all the way. He is fun.
Teddy Roosevelt: “When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty.'”
Apparently, college admissions are down quite a bit. Part of the continuing decline is due to the high cost of college, and because some are finding that many decent jobs today don’t require a degree. There seems to be a growth in post Highs School hands on trades development growth schools.
“Soft” is in the eyes of those who don’t lose their jobs.
On another weird front, some Woke employers want applications to drop the name of tier colleges, and list only the major. In other words, everybody is equal regardless of the prestige of their school. “Ain’t no fancy college kids working here.” Nope, we aren’t elite except when I go to Davos in my Jet plane.
Maybe a strong work ethic is the best advanced degree. And it comes with no debt.
One reader suggested that Amelia Ehrhart would be a better addition to yesterday's list of Classy: women. Personally, I thought that list had Populist woke written all over it.
Climate change activists are looking at yesterday’s polar bear killing of a mother and her son as good news for their cause.
The Answer:
On April 1, 1934, Major Edward Bowes brought to radio a 60-minute Talent search show called The Major S Bowes Amateur Hour. A year after the Premiere a guy named Ted Mack joined the show as a talent searcher. After Bowes died, Mack was named interim Host and then took it to TV around 1947 as the Ted Mack Amateur Hour. Two of biggest stars discovered on the Radio version were Frank Sinatra as part of the “Hoboken Five” and Mara Callas at age 11. The TV show gave us Gladys Knight and Pat Boone. Others were Anne Margaret, Jose Feliciano, Irene Cara, Robert Merrill, Georgia Gibbs, Payl Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Beverly Sills, Jerry Vale, Connie Francis, Robert Klein, Bobby Rydell, Vera Ellen Joey Bishop, Teresa Brewer and many more.
Some of you may remember that the opening of the TV show featured two Dancing Old Gold cigarette packages. How sinful.
Speaking of Amateur hour, have you seen some of our elceted officials lately?
John Adams: “No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” And that was over 220 years ago!
Here’s a song Teresa Brewer had me singing as a kid. I wasn’t twerking.
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