News Digest from the Fake-Crisis Management Center, no. 2011\04E

Shout out if you're underwhemled. NAB study rejects spectrum 'crisis'

The Hill (blog)

The White House, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the wireless industry have cited a spectrum crisis as a justification for policies that will repurpose TV airwaves for mobile broadband use.

According to NAB, the study shows "that insufficient analysis and reliance on faulty information in the formation of the FCC's National Broadband Plan has led to the overstated assumption of a nationwide spectrum 'crisis.'"

The author writes that the basis for the spectrum crisis language is "underwhelming,"

Alas, the Foibles of Tax Policy

Heavens to Lexington Steele: in South Korea, penis enlargement surgery is exempt from VAT, but breast implants for women are not.

Noting this could be seen as gender inequality, Kim asked whether the National Tax Service was discriminating against women because all of its directors have so far been male.
Interestingly, Kim also said that 15.4% of Koreans age 17 to 19 get cosmetic surgery.

But here’s the real howler:

Kim noted that medically speaking, the size of a man’s member doesn’t really matter in ones sex life, but since breast size is easily noticeable by others, smaller-breasted women might develop a complex about them.

Un hunh. I tell ‘dat to my bitches that all the time.