Product Placement in Radio

I jokingly suggested this as the future in my novel "$everance" because it seemed so preposterous, but sadly, it's actually happening. And it's even more odious than my attempt at satire in the book.

Talk show hosts like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin are offering paid endorsements as part of the regular content of their show. Not as separate commercials, not identified as commercials, just part of the usual "the liberals are destroying this country" garbage they repeat over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And they're being paid millions to do it.

Full details are here.

I don't suppose this bothers any of their listeners. It certainly doesn't bother their lapdog defender Talkers Magazine's Founder and Editor Michael Harrison, who twists himself into a pretzel defending it in the article.

It's beyond slimy as far as I'm concerned.

Hef's wedding is called off

He was scheduled to be married this Saturday, but yesterday Hugh Heffner announced that his wedding to 25-year-old Crystal something or other is off.

Not sure if she suddenly realized she was marrying someone 60 years older than her, or if he insisted on a prenup that negated her only reason for marrying him, or if there is some other more traditional reason for breaking up (like the fact that he has thirty other hot babes living in the house), but it's a sad story nonetheless.

Hef is "heartbroken." He spent the night last night, and I'm not joking about this, screening the film "Runaway Bride" for a small group of confidants.

Fun website to peruse

They call themselves White Trash Repairs.

Thanks to "BP" for sending me the link.

TV News

Salt Lake City NBC affiliate refuses to run new show about The Playboy Club.

Charlie Sheen negotiating a return to sitcoms with a mystery network (probably Fox).