Beyond the Rhetoric

Hey Ed, I’ll tell you what the hell happens on 01-18-08. Ever since I saw the first trailer prior to watching Transformers the Movie, I was hooked. I had to find out what was going on with this secret JJ Abrams movie. The first trailer was one crazy teaser and it got people talking. It [...]

I just caught word that CashQuests.com has been sold for $15,000. For some time now, many people have wondered whether Kumiko Suzuki was for real. We questioned whether the person behind the money-making blog was male or female. We questioned whether the person running the blog was really just a middle-aged man in Arkansas pretending [...]

I got an email message from Kenneth, the guy behind InvestorBlogger.com, informing me that Beyond the Rhetoric now carries a Google PageRank of zero. That can’t be good. Not that long ago, BTR was a PR5, but then Google went around bitch-slapping anyone who sold paid links. For a while, they assigned a PR2 to [...]

Gimmicks are huge with restaurants, because they give the owners an opportunity to charge high prices for fairly mediocre food. I remember when sushi was making its first big splash in Vancouver years ago, people loved the idea of a floating sushi bar: wooden boats would float along on a small moat surrounding the sushi [...]

The Writers Guild of America is still on strike, so that means that we are not enjoying new episodes of many of our favorite TV shows. Flipping through late night television, I’m forced to suffer through reruns of Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, and Stephen Colbert. It sucks, because these shows are supposed to be topical [...]