David Lazarus in a recent Consumer Confidential column in the Los Angeles Times quotes Michael Shames of the Consumer Action Network on the “duopoly* of “two titans battling for the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers.” The two competing titans are posed as cable versus telecom, sort of like Coca Cola versus Pepsi Cola.
Lazarus writes [...]

John Bollinger creator of the eponymous Bollinger Bands, an astute means of emphasizing “technicals” instead of “fundamentals” to gauge the strength of an equity and its movement in the stock market, recently bemoaned rising inflation and a falling market, yet with one “positive” sign of “strength” which he named as Wells Fargo, the large banking [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has found in its “Nation’s Report Card” (National Assessment of Educational Progress) that only in the City of Cleveland have students scored worse in writing skills than Los Angeles.
Nationally, “private school students scored higher than public school students, and Catholic school students scored the highest of all.” Perhaps most interestingly, [...]

Said physicist Seth Shostak of the UFO phenomenon on Larry King recently: “I think they’re out there because of the enormity of the universe.”
Because Shostak holds a PhD in physics and, therefore deals with the physical world on astronomical levels, we must believe he was referring to the physical largeness of the universe, not its [...]

Comedienne Chelsea Handler spoke of the 5.4 magnitude Chino Hills earthquake in Southern California 7/29/08 as a trembler–a person who trembles or shakes. (Concise Oxford Dictionary)
Is Handler personifying the earthquake (using anthropomorphism)? But if she is personifying earthquakes–giving them human qualities–why would such a fearsome “type” such as an earthquake tremble?
Handler, a normally articulate funny [...]