Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Oh dear, and I thought now that we elected The Chosen One, all this was going to fall away like Quentin Tarantino’s private parts in that Zombie movie of his.
Reason #5 of the seven reasons Americans suck at soccer…
Does anyone really like Americans?
Usually, when there’s someone in your family who’s not as good at a sport as you are, you tend to try and help them out so that they can get better and (hopefully) provide more of a challenge to you later on.
With the US though, the rest of the world isn’t so kind. We’ve made it acceptable to make fun of US soccer instead of going there and investing in the sport in America. We’ve made it acceptable to mock them instead of training them and coaching them. They tend to beat the world at everything else so its payback.
That’s why when someone like David Beckham – an excellent businessman – goes to the US to invest in soccer, the world laughs at him. Would you laugh at Bill Gates if he invested in a new technology startup? People would scramble to get involved. The world doesn’t take Americans seriously, and soccer is worse off as a result.
Three things:
One. Sometime over the last forty-two years, I’ll admit to having some ugly thoughts about people who could do something better than I could. It’s a natural human reaction. I’ll also confess to having taken some people less than seriously. That’s a logical reaction, depending on the situation at hand. These events…were all different. I have yet to be jealous of someone for performing at something better than me, and simultaneously, failing to take them seriously. Really. I don’t get how that’s done. How do you do that?
Two. FrankJ says it better than I can, as we pointed out before…
Hey, Europe!
So how many black leaders have you elected?
Yeah, I thought so. So shut up.
Racist crackers.
Three. It’s a mistake to talk about what is “thought” by a large collective of people, and an even bigger mistake to believe someone talking that way. I know of two occasions in which one is inspired to do this…the speaker is trying to engage a self-fulfilling prophecy, making the large collective think what he’s saying it’s already thinking (specifically, in this case, that Americans suck or are bad or stink or are poo poo heads or whatever). The other occasion would be after some kind of polling process, during which time he went door-to-door and made sure “everyone thinks” what he’s saying everyone within that collective thinks. Bullying and polling. And this asshole is talking about the entire world, so I doubt he went door to door polling everyone, or even anyone.
But back to point…two. The Chosen One in the White House. This stuff is all supposed to slide to a stop right about now, isn’t it? He Who Walks On Water seems to have a “mandate” of sorts to bludgeon Congress into forking out bailout after bailout after bailout, so this will cost us dearly over the next four years. When’s this product we’re buying at such an exorbitant rate, the worldwide adoration, showing up at our doorstep? Does UPS have it somewhere? Does it have a tracking number?
Update: The FARK thread has been greenlit so you don’t need to buy a TOTALFARK subscription to follow it.
Which happens several times a day.
What’s unusual is that the FARK kids are comin’ out swinging in defense of America. Yeah! And they’re doing a fairly clever, snarky, above-par job of doing it too. Go see.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
America doesn’t take Americans seriously.
- mythusmage | 12/25/2008 @ 15:01