The Justice Departments antitrust division said yesterday that the buyout of XM Satellite Radio by Sirius would not hurt competition or consumers.
OK, OK. I get it.
Of course creating a de facto monopoly in satellite services won’t hurt satellite services competitors. There are no satellite services competitors.
<sigh>
Do you worry that everyone will know? That’s the message of the Detrol LA ads, that people might find out you have to … pee.
Horror of horrors.
For heaven’s sake, don’t we have enough real stuff to worry about? Like snot on our sleeves or how to pronounce “cocamidopropyl betaine” and “polyquaternium.”
These little quickies don’t have enough to oomph to spin into the three-four hundred words needed for a blog or seven-eight hundred words for a column but I just can’t let them go. You have been warned.
Politics is like the weather. Everybody talks about it. People think they can predict the weather. Or change it.