The story of the four teenagers rapping their order at McDonald's would be dumb except for the outcome.
Were the kids being jerks? Unquestionably. Watch the original YouTube video and it's obvious that this is just stupid behavior. But arresting them is the type of thing that only a stupid company would do (with the help of complicit fools in the local police department), because it's such an inappropriate overreaction. Four kids behaving like jerks suddenly look like heroes of free speech.
Clearly Conny Kramer or someone else at McDonald's needed to take a Valium. OR MAYBE AN ANTIPSYCHOTIC.
You deserve a break today. Stay clear of McDonald's and you'll get one. Anyone for Burger King?
Friday, October 30, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Another baseball fraud
When Tim McClelland, supposedly the best umpire in baseball, supposedly just "blunders" -- on a play that was this obvious -- it's clear that the fix is in this postseason. I don't know whether gamblers have taken baseball over, as in 1919, or whether the league is dishonest in general, but it's just not possible that the best umpire in baseball coincidentally makes the "worst call of all time."
I'm not so paranoid that I don't believe in coincidences. But this is asking the viewing audience to believe in the impossible.
New York, start celebrating the World Series championship. You got it the old-fashioned way: somebody paid for it.
I'm not so paranoid that I don't believe in coincidences. But this is asking the viewing audience to believe in the impossible.
New York, start celebrating the World Series championship. You got it the old-fashioned way: somebody paid for it.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
59-0?
That's what the New England Patriots (4-2) beat the Tennessee Titans (0-6) by on Sunday. In a snowstorm. In Foxborough, MA. On October 18.
Wait, a snowstorm in suburban Boston on October 18? It's easy to understand why Tennessee gave up, the way they did in the game. Being from Al Gore's home area, they probably believed in global warming and were saddened by the realization that he was going to get mocked some more for his outlandish predictions about the "hockey stick" ride in temperature. No wonder they played like they had fleas.
Wait, a snowstorm in suburban Boston on October 18? It's easy to understand why Tennessee gave up, the way they did in the game. Being from Al Gore's home area, they probably believed in global warming and were saddened by the realization that he was going to get mocked some more for his outlandish predictions about the "hockey stick" ride in temperature. No wonder they played like they had fleas.
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Great Appeaser
I have to admit, I have a hard time writing a reasonably periodic blog. During this last gap, the Norwegians slipped in a surprise when they awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. If this wasn't so tragic for much of the world, it would be sickening.
Let me make one point clear. I'm not one of the Obama-haters out there. I love the fact that he's the second president from Harvard Law School (Rutherford B. Hayes was the first). I don't think he's the death of America. His election doesn't fill me with desire to move out of the country, as , say, the election of Mike Huckabee would have done. But this is such a pathetic award that it's become a worldwide laughing stock, and nobody deserves being laughed at more than Obama, who seems only to desire to replace Neville Chamberlain as "the Great Appeaser."
One of the pre-election comments about Obama was that he was weak in foreign affairs. Instead of asking advice from South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who seems to be an expert (ask that Argentinean woman that he claims to be his "soul mate"), Obama claimed that his help would come from Joe Biden, whose best-known international venture was to plagiarize Neil Kinnock, the former leader of the British Labor Party. Between them, Obama and Biden are proving to be the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.
Latest news: Obama can't make it to Berlin for the 20th anniversary of tearing down the Berlin Wall. Of course not; he's too busy trying to suck up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to celebrate the most important event with regard to world peace to happen in my lifetime: the fall of Communist Eastern Europe.
In fact, Obama scrapped the plans of the Bush administration to put land-based missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians didn't like two of the three East Bloc countries that revolted against Russian hegemony having such missiles, even if they were turned toward Iran. So Obama killed them and intimated that, as a result, the Russians would help with Iran. Only ... when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Russia to get a joint statement, the Russians told her to pound sand. Typical Obama: appease the unappeasable. Isn't that exactly what Chamberlain did?
If Obama's ceaseless blundering leads us to war instead of peace, could we force Norwegians to man the front lines?
Let me make one point clear. I'm not one of the Obama-haters out there. I love the fact that he's the second president from Harvard Law School (Rutherford B. Hayes was the first). I don't think he's the death of America. His election doesn't fill me with desire to move out of the country, as , say, the election of Mike Huckabee would have done. But this is such a pathetic award that it's become a worldwide laughing stock, and nobody deserves being laughed at more than Obama, who seems only to desire to replace Neville Chamberlain as "the Great Appeaser."
One of the pre-election comments about Obama was that he was weak in foreign affairs. Instead of asking advice from South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who seems to be an expert (ask that Argentinean woman that he claims to be his "soul mate"), Obama claimed that his help would come from Joe Biden, whose best-known international venture was to plagiarize Neil Kinnock, the former leader of the British Labor Party. Between them, Obama and Biden are proving to be the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.
Latest news: Obama can't make it to Berlin for the 20th anniversary of tearing down the Berlin Wall. Of course not; he's too busy trying to suck up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to celebrate the most important event with regard to world peace to happen in my lifetime: the fall of Communist Eastern Europe.
In fact, Obama scrapped the plans of the Bush administration to put land-based missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Russians didn't like two of the three East Bloc countries that revolted against Russian hegemony having such missiles, even if they were turned toward Iran. So Obama killed them and intimated that, as a result, the Russians would help with Iran. Only ... when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Russia to get a joint statement, the Russians told her to pound sand. Typical Obama: appease the unappeasable. Isn't that exactly what Chamberlain did?
If Obama's ceaseless blundering leads us to war instead of peace, could we force Norwegians to man the front lines?
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