I don’t really have much of a position on this ‘flap’, other than calling anyone a nappy headed ho is pretty damn rude. When you are a public ‘voice’, doing so in the day to day activities of your job is pretty fucking bold. On air personalities walk a narrow line, on one hand having personal opinions which might be rude, offensive, etc etc, and on the other hand relying on either their actual or a stage persona to win the daily bread…
The following is from a guest contributor who wishes to remain anonymous. We’ll call them El Cid for the lack of a better alias:
I had been a fan of Imus for a few years starting in the 90’s. I listened to him on the radio, then watched him (sometimes) in the mornings. I loved his interviews with authors, reporters and political figures. They were insightful, funny and thought provoking. He had a wide range of people on the show. However, I noticed from the first that they were crude and cruel when they weren’t interviewing. There was a real undercurrent of sexism on the show. They really judged women on their looks and were pretty nasty if a woman happened to have power/talent but was “unattractive” in their opinion. They have this jerk named “Bo Diedle” (not sure of spelling) who was one of the NY cops who caught the Son of Sam who would come on regularly. They would let him rant and rave about his hatred/bigotry of Arabs and his love of “made men” like John Gotti. I was so disgusted. I got to the point where the interviews just weren’t worth the nastiness. It’s a shame really, cause Imus does great interviews, but his arrogance got in the way of his talent.
Was I really one of the elite 6% who still thought the man was a retarded ass clown, even in the midst of the smoldering rubble of the world trade center towers? Was it really as little as 6%? Interesting to see drawn in stark contrast something I’ve known since well before the year 2000: George Bush is an absolute, complete, pathetic failure.
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I figure, having a glass of wine or two around your parents is a good way to learn about something that you’re eventually going to get dumped into in an un-supervised environement eventually anyway, so much for early drinking causing brain damaged tards:
“Oddly enough, high school students in much of the rest of the developed world — where lower drinking ages and laxer enforcement reign — do considerably better than U.S. students on standardized tests.”
I know I jumped in head first with my first serious encounter with alcohol…
More ‘raise the fist‘…or at least, politely object to some rich white man who doesn’t give a damn about you or anything other than the rich white guys who helped him buy his office…
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This is interesting. There is no War in Iraq, there is a hostile military occupation which the people are resisting against, some passively, some actively. The little wall King George built, the little porthole he cut out and hung the word ‘War’ above…I was fooled!
‘“If a decision is made to remove and replace a limited number of U.S. Attorneys, then the following might be considered for removal and possible replacement,” Mr. Sampson’s e-mail said.
But Mr. Sampson testified under oath on March 29 at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no candidates in mind to replace any of the fired prosecutors.’
Jesus all butt fucking mighty Christ , someone throw these criminal fucks in jail already…and don’t get me started on the independent email server thing, oh how convenient it all cleanly disspeared as soon as it was discovered…FUCKING STRING THE MOTHERFUCKING WHORES UP BY THEIR NUTS SO I CAN HUCK FUCKING ROCKS AT THEIR WORTHLESS LYING CRIMINAL HEADS.
…but if anyone I know knows any Iraqi citizens, please give them my heartfelt apologies. Short of marching on Washington and burning the place to the ground, I don’t know of any way to fix the problem short term.
Oh, that and I had a scary dream about ghosts in a basement last night at 4am, and I have apocolyptic nightmares from time to time, and I watched Children of Men and the bonus material which included an excellent and profoundly deep examination of human existance…well, I’m not feeling my most optimistic about things continuing in a tidy fashion…christ, who am I kidding.
We’ll be lucky …there I go again, trying to polish a turd.
One hundred years from now, the world will be nothing as it is today. And I don’t mean to contrast 1907 to 2007. I mean, a completely different fucking place. Whether it is a world gone Mad Max, run by pockets of warlords with SKS rifles or a totalitarian society ala V is for Vendetta or 1984 or some global-warming run amok and people woke up to the fact that they need to reform society on a fundamental level…shit is going to change. In an amazingly profound way…the way shit always changes, slowly at first so you barely notice the water getting warm, until a leap or fit happens that wakes you up and brings pause to your life: christ, how did this come to pass, that I am boiling in a pot of water?
…when it had been happening slowly under our noses the entire time…
Here is to hoping people realize that borders are figments of a politicians imagination; that all people, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, truly are created equal and fully due the basic and fundamental rights of every other man, woman and child; that people understand that to create a better society, the deep and ancient dream of improvement and betterment, we need to treat every single person as our personal next door neighbor, to put it in a local colloquialism.
…and upgraded from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04. What is an ‘Ubuntu’ and why should you care? You shouldn’t care. Yet. Seriously, what follows is quite boring, take it from me and go check out reddit. Here is an interesting story on turning algae into bio-diesel:
“A full-scale Solix project would coexist with a coal-fired power plant, bubbling exhaust gas through water and absorbing much of the carbon dioxide, Sears said.”
How cool is that?
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Ubuntu is a flavor of Linux. And you shouldn’t care yet because Linux Desktop is just about, but not quite, ready for prime time adoption. This video may give you an idea of why this operating system is nearly ready to grab Vista by the hips and start going to town on Microsoft’s ass: amazing 3D effects on a fraction of the hardware teH Vista demands.
It was enough for me to wipe the Edgy Eft off mom’s comp and throw a Feisty Fawn down. Compiz is ‘built in’ to Ubuntu these days, and after enabling the proprietary nVidia drivers and enabling Desktop Effects, the old Sempron and nForce 4 Ti4200 were doing a pretty neat dance. A few effortless minutes later, after following these concise directions, I was spinning my shit like a crack-crazed DJ. How well it performed on this old hardware, this aging Ti 4200, 512MB of mem on a nForce3 board with a Sempron processor…fuck, nobody needs Vista!
Yea, if Beryl was stable enough to be included in 7.04, I might say that today is the day that Linux comes out of the closet and starts raping Windows across the desktop segment. I had problems with switching between users while Beryl was running, I’d switch back to the user where I left Beryl running and find a black screen and my mouse.
My next task is probably to install QuickBooks 2004 on the box (or at least try to). If I can get that running, I might ‘force’ an upgrade at work to start getting us weaned off of Micro$oft. I know my mom was running 6.10 for a couple months every night without problem, if she can play Sudoku and surf the internet from a Linux Desktop, anyone can.
The real test will be my sister when she comes in next week. She is a true hater, has an undefinable distaste for Firefox and hates Ubuntu. If I can break out Beryl on her, throw a couple bad ass themes down in quick succession, spin the cube around from Sudoku to Firefox to aMSN to Mahjongg, I might be able to throw her off guard enough to want to sit down and actually give it a chance…which is exactly what Linux Desktop in general needs for general uptake and acceptance: ooh, I want that pretty, give it to me! I wants my precious!
I’ll try to get a video made tomorrow too, [UPDATE: I stuck my video in the bottom of the post] prob won’t be quite as impressive as the video linked above, but I sure as fuck know it will be shorter: one of my personal pet peeves is having to wait more than five seconds to see the money shot. I don’t know why I don’t start every blog post title with a swear word, come to think of it…unrelated, I get this spam occasionally of this woman looking into a guys pajama bottoms like there is nothing in there, and then another woman laying on a bed holding this black guys impressive cock, thing looks like a god damn maglight…a D-cell maglight. Every time I get it I want to crop the guys cock out and make a collage out of it and post it here. Don’t worry, corporate slaves, I’ll make sure to properly label and sanitize the link. Like this: NSFW. Except as far as I can tell, that video would only really not be safe for kids in elementary school…and even then, I hear that this would be pretty tame…maybe kindergarteners would be be shocked and outraged by that link? So don’t worry, a static collage of some gigantic black cock couldn’t possibly be offensive to anyone.
“Look, I’m just saying that somewhere between Jesus dying on the cross, and a giant bunny hiding eggs, there seems to be a gap of information.”, he continued.
“Stanley, just dye your god damn eggs!”, warned his father.
From the South Park season 11 episode #5. Unfortunately, the episode quickly devolved into a cheesy ripoff of the DaVinci Code…where it could have interestingly explored the actual disconnect and the gap of information (nice that they kept her name) people have when it comes to their own cultural history in a way that incautiously mocks people and their close held, personal belief, while informing and expanding the horizons of all who watch…like the episode with the Mormons…at it’s best South Park can tower over the landscape like the Colossus…
