"Pity the man without his own man cave in which to install a super-colossal screen."
Where you can watch the abysmal ads, and then wonder why things like rape happen. Besides, wouldn't you rather go to a game? I know someone who can get you tickets.
Related:
"Best Buy’s founder makes offer of $8.8b; Deal would be record buyout of a US retailer" by Mark Scott | New York Times, August 07, 2012
Richard Schulze, the founder of Best Buy, said he planned to pay for the acquisition by contributing $1 billion of his own money, securing investments from private equity firms as well as debt financing.
That's a good way to destroy a company, although I'm sure he and his group will collect a good check for doing it.
In his letter, Schulz said that ‘‘Credit Suisse, who I have retained as my financial adviser, is highly confident that it can arrange the necessary debt financing.’’
Best Buy has $2.2 billion in debt and $1.1 billion in cash on hand, according to Capital IQ data.
Not a good balance when many mega-conglomerates are sitting on billions and are flush with the $tuff.
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Looks like Best Buy is already on the way out anyway.
Also see: Best Buy cutting 2,400 jobs as it changes tactics
That can't be helping the alleged job growth we aren't seeing.
And look whose back:
"Best Buy cofounder back in the fold" Associated Press, March 26, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS — Best Buy’s cofounder and former chairman, Richard Schulze, is returning to the fold as chairman emeritus. The move comes after Schulze considered making a buyout bid for the electronics retailer but never made a formal offer.
Best Buy has been working to turn itself around amid tough competition from online retailers and discounters. Since hiring Hubert Joly as chief executive in August, the company has cut jobs, invested in training, and started matching online prices....
Schulze founded Best Buy in 1966 and is its largest shareholder, with a 20 percent stake. He resigned as chairman in May and left the board in June after a company investigation found he knew about an inappropriate relationship then-CEO Brian Dunn had with a female staffer.
Schulze says he supports Joly’s plans to turn around the company. Financial results show that his changes seem to be beginning to help....
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Of course, you know what happens when you watch too much TV, kids:
"Low activity may mean low sperm, study suggests; Harvard study looks at exercise and TV watching" by Deborah Kotz | Globe Staff, February 05, 2013
Watching too much television and exercising too little might be at least partly to blame for a possible decline in the sperm counts of American men, a Harvard School of Public Health study suggests....
Yeah, it's anything but chemicals, pollution, prescription drugs, oil, radiation in the air,water, and soil, or a sterility campaign waged under cover of vaccines.
The result was surprising because it contradicts previous research....
Translation: It's a pile of BS propaganda -- likely for the rea$ons I mentioned.
Both too much TV and a sedentary lifestyle independently raised a man’s likelihood of having fewer sperm, but men who exercised and watched a lot of TV didn’t fare as poorly from their excess TV viewing as those who didn’t exercise at all.
That can't be good or anybody.
The research, however, has several limitations....
I usually fall asleep watching TV, so.... zzzzzzzz.
What Alice Domar, a fertility researcher and psychologist who heads the Domar Center at Boston IVF, does advise -- based on previous research -- is that men with fertility problems avoid biking for extended periods, choose boxers instead of briefs, and remove warm laptops from their laps. Anything that raises the temperature of the testicles can destroy sperm....
And I was laughed at years ago for suggesting my problems were related to the bike-riding (back when I believed and lived global warming), just the way 9/11 truth theorists were once laughed at.
When will we people learn we are telling the truth, not the propaganda machine known as the AmeriKan ma$$ media?
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Think about it for a minute: The Globe is pitching the latest big TV or electronic gadget that causes impotence on the one hand, then trying to get you to take your life in your hands with the biking around Boston bit on the other.
I'm going to keep looking through the Globe's business shelves and may add to this later.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Spring is a great time to buy a new TV
But buyer beware.
