I was contemplating whether I wanted to carry this category over into the new year. One option I thought of was maybe creating a hybrid category. One that would have the news of the week determine if someone would get the Bungles nod or maybe a hero would emerge instead. I still may do that. Still haven't decided. However, there were just too many idiots out there to not say something about the Bungles award today.
Take Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach for example. Now we all know that the coaches at the bigger football schools probably employ some unique tactics to inspire their players. Maybe some of them are questionable, but you would think they would at least watch their steps. They would have to know in this age of instant access that nothing they do will go undiscovered. But some of them are just that arrogant to think they are above the system.
Having a player with a concussion stand in an electrical closet as punishment is ludicrous. Especially when concussions are the hot topic of football today. Making that same player do that when you KNOW his dad is a well known broadcaster on a national network is just plain stupid. It's no wonder that several Tech players are now coming out saying they are much better off with Leach being gone. He should have known better than to walk on the other side of that fine line of respect and hatred.
The other relevant party is Mediacom and FOX. They currently have a beef going on where FOX wants Mediacom to pay more money for carrying their programming and Mediacom doesn't want to. That's the laymen version of the disagreement. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but that's the essence of what it comes down to. But more importantly than that, what it truly means is the both of them are dumping on us as the customer while they fight over money.
I thought it was just in our area but a similar dispute was going on over on the east coast between Mediacom and Time Warner. They came to a deal recently so 15 million subscribers won't be without FOX. Sinclair Broadcasting in our area hasn't done the same thing. I already know they will though. It's happened before. They will work out some arrangement where both sides come away happy and Mediacom will use it as an excuse to raise their rates yet again. Both of them will end up making their executives even bigger millionaires while us average folks are the ones paying the price for it as usual.
Last up is the entire state of Colorado. Okay...maybe not the entire state. Just the folks who are responsible for their latest legislation that made national news. They have announced they will be lowering their minimum wage. It's the the first decrease in any state's minimum wage since the federal minimum was adopted in 1938. Theirs will go from $7.28 to $7.25.
In the bigger scheme of things, maybe it's not that bad. The drop still keeps them at the federal mandated minimum wage of $7.25. It's only 3 cents, right? Well think of it in terms of the folks that only make that much money. Every penny counts. That adds up pretty quickly. With the economy the way that it is, this is the wrong time to make such a move. They're supposed to move the wage the other way, not down. I wonder how many Colorado legislators took a pay cut in the process of deciding that the minimum wage folks should suffer more.



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