Shots Fired at School Board Meeting

Just when I thought I had seen and heard it all, a man is caught on tape firing shots at school board members in Panama City, FL.

The gunman, Clay Duke sat through much of the Bay Districts Schools board meeting quietly. It was only towards the end of that meeting when citizens were able to bring up issues that he approached the bench and spray painted a large circle with the letter "V" in the center on the wall. He then pulled a gun and ordered everyone out except six school board members.  Duke stood at close range of the superintendent and the other board members to rant about his anger over the firing of his wife, a former school teacher and taxes.

Here it is, caught on tape from CNN.com.

I am amazed at the bravery of the school board member Ginger Littleton who tried to knock the gun from Duke's hand as well as the composure of all the board members.

Thank goodness Duke was not a good shot and the chief of security, Mike Jones was able to take him down by firing shots at him.

Duke was definitely right. He said "someone is gonna die" and it ended up being him.

Hulu and London

Sigh! I used to REALLY love Hulu.com but it is slowly morphing itself into a commercialized pay site. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Hook a bunch of users with your streamlined interface then slowly start adding more commercials to the programs, then tack on a fee to see the full length versions to 5 star programs. I guess I wouldn't mind if I could get EVERY program I ever wanted. But even Hulu has it's limits. (for now anyway) Right now I'm in a fight with DirectTV about the price for our programming. I ask for little but pay a lot for basics and I'm tired of it!

Then there's the uprising in London over the college tuition rates going up triple! Those people are mad as hell. So when are we going to have our uprising? I'm not talking about passive aggressive demonstrations over taxes but a REAL hoe down over corporate America and overall inequalities? Right now I'm simmering...keeping myself from the boiling point by prayer and meditation but even folks like me have a cracking point.  I'm hoping it doesn't come to that in our country to get change accomplished.

Sir Richard Branson's "Project"

Billionaire and founder of the famous Virgin brand, Sir Richard Branson has a new venture. He will be publishing a new magazine called "Project" that will be 100% digital available for the iPad and in the future available for other tablet platforms.

I truly feel that tablets are the future of print because of it's ability to better engage the reader using video and sound.  Print may not totally go away but we are just at the tip of the iceberg with this technology.  As more and more companies make these devices, pricing will go down and they will be more widely available.