NCAA BowlShit

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Gary

Flipping through the channels to see what awesome NCAA football matchup the bowl gods have for us on New Years Eve. Two 6-6 teams (Texas A&M and Northwestern) are playing in the “Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas”. WTF? It should be called the “Mediocre Bowl” or the “If We Had A Real Championship Tournament [...]

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Protester of the Year

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Gary

It would take me many pages to chronicle my thoughts on this – almost as many pages as TIME took to explain their choice. Suffice it to say that I think there’s a huge difference between the Arab Spring protests and the “I want free shit and I want it now” protests in the US. [...]

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Occupy NPR

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Gary

I listen to NPR daily (nothing else but inane college football talk on the radio here) as I drive to and from work.  This morning I heard this bit of garbage from NPR presented as news: LATOYA DENNIS, BYLINE: Just down the road from the state capitol building in Madison, Christina Long is living in [...]

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I want free shit – and I want it now!

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Gary

The Occupy Wall Street movement started as a protest against the bailouts/favoritism the bankers and investment firms got from Bush and Obama. They’ve collected billions (and covertly borrowed trillions at basically 0% interest) of tax dollars and got favorable treatment from their buddies (Bernanke and Paulson) in government. Hey, no problem, I’m pissed about that [...]

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