Wednesday Show Prep - Rocketman edition at ProductionNinja.com

NYT: The Mythbusters couldn’t quite get it to work, but an inventor in New Zealand has unveiled what he calls the world’s first practical jetpack. For the low, low price of $100,000 you can fly through the air just like a bird… a big, very very noisy bird. It’s one of many flying contraptions that you can see at the EAA Airshow in Oshkosh.
Oregonian: Oregon has embraced socialized medicine, and as is the case in most places it hasn’t exactly worked out as planned. Putting the debate over whether putting a huge government bureaucracy in charge of our health is a good idea, I think we can all agree that this is pretty darned scary. Terminal cancer patients have been getting letters from the state telling them that the Oregon Health Plan won’t cover their treatment, but that it will cover palliative, or comfort care, including doctor-assisted suicide. Sweet. Merciful. Crap.
Daily Hearld: Three morons… and at the risk of being inundated with snarky comments from Milwaukee folks, yes they are Cubs fans… stand accused to beating a White Sox fan within an inch of his life. That would be newsworthy in and of itself, but the thing that you really have to love about this story is the fact that the fight broke out at a Sesame Street-themed birthday party.
AJC: ESPN has named Valdosta, Georgia their new “Titletown.” That was absolutely the biggest waste of time in the history of cable television. And I would think that even if they hadn’t named a town in Georgia.
St. Louis Business Journal: Rush Limbaugh is apparently interested in buying the St. Louis Rams. It’s worth pointing out that The Godfather did grow up in Missouri and all, but he is pretty much the world’s biggest die-hard Steelers fan. So that got me thinking, if somehow you suddenly had enough money to buy a professional sports team, but it wasn’t your favorite team, would you do it? I don’t think I could.

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1 Laura B. Parker
July 29, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Have you seen that Honda commercial with the jetpack? Seriously, I think I would look good in one of those! =)

OH, I especially like the Oregonian piece… Good to know!
2 Keith
July 31, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Oh yeah, you’d look great… just make sure that you don’t run out of fuel like the guy on the commercial.