2008 Woodie Awards
Video tape is a wonderful thing. It can help with school projects, it can catch precious family moments and it can even be used to win football games (just kidding; please don't lynch me). Best of all, video tape helps to capture things public officials probably should not have said.
The planned attack on the integrity of General David Petraeus materialized, just as I said that it would. Petraeus, the highest U.S. commander in Iraq, delivered his assessment of the situation in the combat zone to Congress last week, while the so-called "anti-war" left executed its defensive plan magnificently.
When I tell people that I am a senior at UMass still living on campus in the dorms, the most common response I receive is usually, very simply, "Why?" I try not to get into it, especially with people I don't know very well. I usually shake my head or roll my eyes and give them a non-answer like, "Hah, you know…" Afterward, however, I always get a bit of a disconcerting feeling about the confused looks I get, or the wrinkled eyebrows, or even looks of disgust.
The iPod: everybody's got one. You've probably even got one. The innovative idea of being able to carry around more stolen music than you probably even know was the biggest marketing success of our generation. Apple pulled it off; they got virtually everyone within the young consumer demographic to pay an obscene amount of money for something that - let's face it - is completely impractical.