My 3 Faves

I have selected my three favorite blog posts from this year. I switched the genre of this blog to political/pop culture during early January. It's almost one year old. My first selection is its first post. As a postscript to that post, to memorialize George Carlin, who died this year I want to add
"IT'S ALL BULLSHIT, AND IT'S BAD FOR YA."


Sunday, January 13, 2008
The MEDIA!!! THE GOOOOOODDDAMN MEDIA!

Actually, I believe that the mainstream media reflect people's tastes. They sell whatever people want to consume. Liberal-slanted media gripe and bitch about the mainstream media's conservative corporate bias. Conservative media whine and moan about the media's liberal bias. Both subjective sources agree about one thing, though: the mainstream media focus obsessively on entertainment ... to the detriment of society... or whatever...

Obviously such self-righteous people avoid such things, right? Well, according to Huffington Post during December 20, 2007 an article about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy received the most views during the course of a few days with more than 114,000 views. An article about Mike Huckabee ranked second with 54,000 views. In fact, as I typed this entry I noticed that an article that is titled "Britney Naked, Pill-Popping And Swearing: Details Of The Stand-Off" on Huff Post has received almost 46,000 views.

Now we have this recent phenomenon: http://sweetjesusihatechrismatthews.blogspot.com/2008/01/dear-chris-matthews.html

Apparently liberals are so sophisticated and learned about the issues and their candidates that they will vote for a candidate to spite a news commentator. Brilliant. Many Air America radio hosts have concurred that they wish they could vote for Hillary Clinton to spite Matthews and other sexist commentators, as well. Note: these are the same people who rant and rave about the mainstream media's superficialities.

It's all nonsense, folks. I'm just here to expose it.

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Your Pep Talk for Today

When I was in my early twenties, I jogged daily. People yelled snarky comments at me -- usually while they were sitting in lawn chairs. I was running too slowly, they said. They could walk faster, they said. They spoke seriously without a hint of jocularity.

I timed myself. I was running a mile per seven minutes... which is, of course, outstanding. I should have never doubted myself.

People have described Jessica Alba as fugly on Youtube-- and the comment received 5 thumbs up. Albert Einsten's physics professors urged him to switch to a different major when he was in college.
The Nashville elites told Willie Nelson-- the best country singer of our time-- that he couldn't sing when he was new on the scene. I met a woman who was among the people who tried to shut down Willie; to this day she insists that she doesn't know how he gained so much popularity.

I could go on. It comes back to one thing: people don't know shit. If you have a dream, pursue it. As Willie Nelson said, don't listen to them. Do it your way. Even George Carlin-- who was perhaps the most cynical man you could meet-- said "dreams come true."

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It was, kid.

The story.