“I am a very important person/team/university. I will now say things that require many cameras and microphones around me.”
If the last week has taught us anything: there are WAY too many grown men getting their egos stroked (and wallets lined) by their involvement with college athletes.
I mean, have you spent any time around a college student recently? They’re kind of dorky. Why would I want to go anywhere with them…let alone let them on my yacht?
As a man completely obsessed with sports, I’d just like to remind us all of a simple truth: sports are dumb. They aren’t important. Jeez, put your camera down and empty out that freakin’ room. That’s the saddest picture I’ve seen in a while.
Three other important things to share this morning – 1) this link has allowed me to justify 12-hour road trips to Colorado with a three year-old (so I hate that site). Also, it’s fun to enter in “is it better to fly or drive to Taiwan?” 2) if you’ve got $50 burning a hole in your pocket, this may be a good way to spend it. I only saw about half a dozen of them and plan on wasting a good part of the rest of my summer on the rest. (On sale today only.). And 3) it’s free parking in downtown Lawrence today. I’m planning on going down there in a few hours and working the rest of the day from my car, in a prime parking spot. I just can’t pass up free things.
One of my favorite old Conan bits – Inappropriate Reactions Channel.
I thought of that after seeing the pic below on one of Gawker’s websites. The Kohl’s marketing slogan (top of rack) might not be the best match for a display holding training bras.
Thanks for the opportunity to vote. I felt like my voice was heard. And then pointed at, mocked, trampled, and paraded through the streets in a joyful display of my inconsequence.
Not that I’m bitter or anything. It’s the price of living in a great town inside a pretty nutty state. But I kinda love that nuttiness too.
And frankly, I’m excited to see our legislatures filled with more people who reject the effectiveness of government, and watch them work together… to prove themselves right. (With due respect to the wide spectrum of important ideas out there, I don’t hire the Amish to fix my computer. And I don’t ask atheists to interpret the bible for me. It’s not that a these neo-tea-o-libertarians would be BAD at governing – heck, all kinds of people (with all kinds of political philosophies) are bad at it. It’s that they don’t believe anyone can be good at it. They don’t believe it works. Well then, by all means, here are the keys!)
Okay, a little bitter. But I wish us all luck. Them, you, me… ’tis the only way to gracefully react to last night’s results. (That, and take a morning-after pill.) They say elections are about not being too happy when you win or too upset when you lose. Probably because you can spend an hour in a large, crowded, public space and be reminded… “we left these important decisions up to THESE PEOPLE?!!! These people are nuts! Why would I get upset about by what THESE PEOPLE say?!!!”
After all, democratic elections are the occasional reminder that I really don’t trust my fellow man all that much. And most of them are smelly too. How ’bout THAT for some REAL libertarianism?!!!
It’s going to be easy to get things done… don’t you worry about me!
