Update on OJ Simpson
The Bozosphere has been made privy to some facts regarding the funeral arrangements for OJ Simpson. First, OJ will NOT be buried next to his ex-wife Nicole. Her family is dead set against the idea. You may recall the OJ…
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Plagiarism at the Bozosphere and Beyond
With the recent stories of plagiarism in the news, we at the Bozosphere want to make our position absolutely clear. But first, a bit of history. A member of our staff, whose name we will not use for obvious reasons,…
What Sports And The Economy Have In Common
OK, it’s obvious that professional sports are big business. An American football team was just sold for more the Six Billion dollars. The best paid college football coach makes Eleven Million dollars a year. The best paid soccer player, well…
ChatGPT versus ChatMEP
With all the brouhaha about ChapGPT, the artificial intelligence program that claims to write competent English on the subject of your choice, we thought we would compare it with ChatMEP, the program being developed here in the Bozosphere. Below you’ll…
Play the Cards You’re Dealt
Recently I had a bicycle accident. I hit a deer. That’s probably enough for you to think you might want to skip the rest of this post, but read on. I broke 7 ribs and dislocated a shoulder, leaving me…
Social Distancing Tools
Here at the Bozosphere, we’re all about helping our readers, few that they may be. So we have some great new ideas for social distancing tools which are going to keep you safe and flatten the curve. There are many…
The N word
There has been a lot of talk and writing about the use of the N-word recently. But something puzzles me. Why is it that we can use the phrase “the N-word” and we know for which word it’s being used…
Celebocracy in America
Move over Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy has been replaced by #celebocracy. The first Celebrocrat to become President was Ronald Reagan. Then we had a period of relative normalcy until Donald Trump. Yesterday, Oprah Winfrey announced that she was considering running…
Mantras for the New Year
OK, it’s been a tough year for many of us and for widely different reasons. And we’re gloomy and grumpy. So let’s have a few mottos, mantras, tag lines, mission statements, ethical principles to help lift our spirits for the…
Cultural Appropriation Implications
There’s been a bit in the blogosphere about Cultural Appropriation recently. First, a definition for those of you who are not sure what it is. Basically, it’s the use of one culture’s artifacts by members of another culture. Yes,…
Urban Transit, Race, and Class in D.C.
This morning I took a bus from my mostly white upper middle class suburb of Washington DC to the Metro station. The bus originates in a working-class suburb to the north of my town. When I got on around…
The Auction Approach to Airline Overbooking
Why do the airlines overbook? Because people don’t show up! Why don’t they show up? Frequently, they have traffic or similar problems and get to the gate after the plane doors are closed. Don’t the airlines make money…
The Dreadlocks Affair
An incident was widely reported in the press in which a black female student at San Francisco State University approached a white male student at the university and told him he shouldn’t be wearing dreadlocks because he was appropriating her…
Do The Right Thing
Recently Pivotal, the company for which I work, held a sales kickoff event. Pivotal’s three themes and the values by which we work are: Do The Right Thing, Do What Works, and Be Kind. In the course of the event, a…
Seemingly Unrelated News Items
In today’s newspapers, I read three seemingly unrelated stories, which upon retrospection are in fact related. One had to do with the crash of the Germanwings plane earlier this month. The current best guess is that the pilot purposely crashed…