Kill, maim, destroy with Bill and Linda. A survey of the four major local TV stations’ late newscasts from December 1989 to May 1990 (conducted by Northwestern University’s Robert Entman) reveals that Channel Nine spent the least time on crime (1,955 seconds) and Channel Two spent by far the most (4,660 seconds) (Chicago Reporter, January 1991).
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Hey, let’s go out to that new Dutch restaurant! “David T. Koyzis, of Greek parentage and Reformed faith, ponders cuisines” in the Reformed Journal, writes Martin Marty in his newsletter Context (February 1). “He thought, as a child, that only Greeks ran restaurants, but in his teens learned of Italian, French, Lebanese, and Chinese establishments. ‘I never saw any restaurants specializing in Swiss, Dutch, English, or Scottish cuisines.’ Why? Koyzis’ Law says: ‘Those countries influenced by the Reformation produce unimaginative (at best) and sometimes horrific (at worst) cuisines, while those lands bypassed by the Reformation originate highly interesting and varied cuisines.’”
Voodoo economics, from the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in Saint Louis: “Financial industry expert Edward Kane compares insolvent S&L institutions to ‘living dead’ zombies in horror films. Professor Kane charges that ‘zombie’ S&Ls were able to survive only because they were allowed to feed off taxpayers through the government-guaranteed deposit-insurance system. Because insolvent S&Ls did not have their own money at stake, their managers were attracted to risky portfolio strategies, which eventually bid down profit margins for all depository institutions. Just like the zombies in the horror films, the living-dead S&Ls created additional zombies.”
