I love the colorful Mel Karmazin. He's a brash, confident -- alright, over-confident -- success story and right now the never-ending-salesman that he is is doing what you'd expect him to do -- whip up interest in his company's lagging holiday sales by talking up a merger with competitor XM (again!). I laugh every time he does this. And I hope I never have to eat my words when I predict that a merger of the two satellite services will never happen. Or should I say, a merger of the two satellite companies should never happen. Even in a country where we are all supposed to live the American dream until we consolidate our assets and&hellip
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