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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Thursday, September 3, 2015

It's Not Hasbro's Fault


Hasbro Toys has a product line known as the Little Pet Shop Collection.  It includes a toy "hamster" named "Harris Faulkner."

The Fox News-bot also named Harris Faulkner took exception to this and sued the toy maker for $5 million.  In her suit, the humanoid Faulkner said that the name was used without permission, and that the toy Faulkner bore an uncanny physical resemblance to her and, as it was just a small plastic toy, was therefore demeaning and insulting, and harmed her professional credibility as a journalist.

I'm not so sure about the physical resemblance but, my dear woman, you lost your journalistic credibility the day you went to work for Fox News.  


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