Four Things You Already Know About Yourself That I Find Lame

10.23.07 Observations, Punk Blog Rebellion 1 comment

A simple search in Google’s Blog search reveals over 99,000 results for the phrase “Things About Myself”.

In response to the p l e t h o r a of bloggers who have posted the proverbial: “… Things About Myself That …” and all its desultory variations, I give you this post. The blog rebellion has begun.

Feel free to add to this list or create your own.

Four Things You Already Know About Yourself that I Find Lame:

1. You Talk (Unless, of course, you are a mute or an infant)
2. You like, support, or watch “reality” TV (like 99% of Americans)
3. You Exist (”I love mankind - it’s people I can’t stand.” — Charles M. Schulz, Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown)
4. You Read This Post

Where Have All The Jocks Gone?

10.13.07 Observations 2 comments

Recently I overhead an email (A spy forwarded it to me) containing a conversation about planning a pickup football game for grown men. The sentence most pertinent to today’s discussion is:

The whiners have won, we’re going to play at 4:30pm instead of 2:30, so everybody can watch the ’skins and go to baby parties and do whatever else.

Now this begs the question, where have all the jocks gone? It seems hard to believe that a jock with any self respect would whine, let alone allow whining to take place in relation to THE GAME. Second I find it amazing that grown men are attending baby parties. Where is the superior strength, masculine stature, and physical prowess of those men attending baby parties? The real jock would have been on the field. Please, if you know where they have gone let me know.

Phoney Politicians

10.04.07 Politics 2 comments

Both major political parties in America are phony. Recently their phoniness has been on full display. First the Republicans and their phony outrage over moveon.org’s ad depicting a General as betraying the United States when he gave a semi-positive report on troop surge in Iraq. Now comes the Democrat phony outrage over something Rush Limbaugh said about people posing as soldiers telling lies, he called them “Phony Soldiers”.

Yes our major political parties love to be outraged by meaningless things the other side does. Why? Because it gets their own side rilled up, behind them, ready to “stand up”, and most important pledge lots of money to their phony campaigns.

In my previous post, I suggested something these politicians could get done. That is after all what real politicians are supposed to do, get things done. Not waste time and money writing letters of condemnation. They’re all phony! Let’s do away with this two party system and get some real movers and shakers in office. I’m all in favor of the “None of the Above” box on the ballet.

Words That Should Be Shortened

10.02.07 Observations, Politics 8 comments

I am a proponent of efficiency and like Al Gore, think we should, as humans, reduce our “carbon footprint”. So I propose that we shorten words in an effort to speak less and reduce the amount of carbon-dioxide that we emit every day.

First word that we should shorten is “disgruntled”, does this word really need the negative prefix “dis”? Have you every heard someone being “gruntled”? No. Well there is my point why do we need to put a prefix on a word never used positively?

Next word would be “inept”, I don’t think I have met any ept people but I sure have met a few inept people. Let’s just shorten this word and remove the prefix “in.”

There are many other words like these: overwhelmed, disdain , unflappable, etc.

Please be sure to leave any words you can think of in the comments of this post. If you could, post them soon, because I plan on taking this in a bill to congress. Maybe congress could get *something* done this decade.