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November 5, 2006
Did That Guy Just Blink?
Is anyone else kind of disturbed by the moving pictures of the pro football players when they're showing the stats or whatever? The worst is when the player manages to sit totally still and suddenly blinks. Creepy! I can handle it when they smile and appear to be thinking "I feel like a damned fool" because that makes sense. Why did they decide to do this, I wonder. Was some guy just like, "You know what would be totally awesome? If we recorded each player individually so it could be like they're staring at people in their living rooms when we're running stats!" Were they brainstorming ways to make stats more interesting? I really prefer the old fashioned photo. I guess it's good I don't watch a lot of pro sports.
And that robot on Fox? Sucks.
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November 1, 2006
Sounds Like Sour Grapes
I don’t really want to get into politics or anything here, but there’s something that really irritates me about the whole John Kerry blunder that has nothing to do with accidentally insulting troops. He originally intended it to be about Bush, right? Now, whether or not W got into Yale because of his family and money, he still graduated from a fairly tough school, and he and Kerry were pretty much even on the grades thing. But whatever, even that isn’t what really gets me.
First I will confess to you that I’m conservative, but I’m not particularly fond of Bush or his administration. That completely aside (it's possible!), if Kerry had successfully pulled off this jab, wouldn’t it still just sound…crappy?
Kerry was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." --CNN
Okay, I know he's talking about the importance of working hard at intellectual development through education, but why not say something about utilizing the tools you're given during your education to avoid making bad decisions later in life i.e. Iraq, instead of the whole "do you know" thing, which sounds patronizing. To me there seems to be little point to the statement except to convey to us that John Kerry is still bitter about losing the election to someone he feels is intellectually inferior. Granted, that would bug the hell out of me, too, but I think I’d stick to bitching about it at home rather than in front of the world.
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