Tastelessness on Fox

Quote of the day:
“In a way, I didn’t think that management was that complicated.”
--Bill Gates, responding to Charlie Rose “marveling” at how a software geek and Harvard dropout could successfully run a large global corporation. From today’s "Barron’s."

Statistic of the day:
Number of Buicks sold so far this year in the U.S.:
206,589.
Number sold in China:
241,632.

Projected statistic of the day:
“By 2050, Goldman Sachs projects the Americans will have 233 million cars, the Chinese will have 514 million cars and the Indians will have 610 million cars. The Americans with 148 million cars already consume a quarter of the world’s oil.”
--David Hale, quoted in today’s "Barron’s"

Quote of the day No. 2:
“There is no sense in which it is not tasteless.”
--David Hinckley in "The New York Daily News," talking about O.J. Simpson’s book and the Fox television show supporting it.

Of the TV show, he goes on to say: “We can’t stop [producer Judith] Regan and Simpson from making it; we can’t stop Fox from broadcasting it. What we can control is whether we watch it.”