Friday, October 09, 2015
Full on empty success. . .
Years have passed. I am now a fulfillment of my aspirations. . .RICH. . LOVED, and alas, truly EMPTY. I feel nothing, I contribute nothing, and I am truly the best example of nihilism at its finest. To the future captains of industry. . .drink hard, drink deep. . .denial so best tasted a gulp at a time. . .
Friday, August 10, 2012
It's all about forgiveness
I forgive you. . . and I ask the same of you. Have a wonderful life with happiness and all.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
What I find interesting is this strange and somewhat romantic notion that screaming in a park at God knows what, is going to motivate the millionaires in Congress to put a bill in front of the millionaire in the White House to stop their primary source of income: the millionaires on Wall Street!
Labels: Sweet Taste of Denial and Fair Trade Coffee
Thursday, November 17, 2011
I understand and empathize with the issues motivating the Occupy movement, but I am VERY tired of hearing the word “revolution” thrown around by people.
Revolution is for countries where people get KILLED for voicing their opinions and demanding their rights. Revolution is not necessary in a country where people wait in line for 3 days in the rain to get Lady Gaga tickets, but sit on their fat asses on election day.
If you are disgruntled and feel you are not represented, go vote for someone other than the two major parties on election day (statistics on young people voting back me up on this point).
I know you must feel like Che, but let’s face it, getting smacked by a cop because you took a dump in the fountain at the park does not make you a freedom fighter sharing the struggle of the 19 year old girl that got shot in the heart for protesting the results of a presidential election half way across the world.
Go home, take a shower and occupy a voting booth, it will yield better results for you in the long run. . . . oh and please don't crap on the sidewalk during your “revolution”: it’s dark when I walk to work in the morning so I’m bound to step in it.
Revolution is for countries where people get KILLED for voicing their opinions and demanding their rights. Revolution is not necessary in a country where people wait in line for 3 days in the rain to get Lady Gaga tickets, but sit on their fat asses on election day.
If you are disgruntled and feel you are not represented, go vote for someone other than the two major parties on election day (statistics on young people voting back me up on this point).
I know you must feel like Che, but let’s face it, getting smacked by a cop because you took a dump in the fountain at the park does not make you a freedom fighter sharing the struggle of the 19 year old girl that got shot in the heart for protesting the results of a presidential election half way across the world.
Go home, take a shower and occupy a voting booth, it will yield better results for you in the long run. . . . oh and please don't crap on the sidewalk during your “revolution”: it’s dark when I walk to work in the morning so I’m bound to step in it.
Labels: Occupy space
1 percent, 99 percent, 35 percent...beware of statistics and "logical lubrication" on all sides in the arguments you hear these days. Statistics are easy to play with if you bend logic to draw conclusions: less than 1 percent of people die from great white shark attacks in this world...100 percent of people who drink water die...therefore a bottle of Evian is statistically connected to more deaths than great white sharks, and arguably more dangerous?!
Labels: Better living through statistics
People: Providing mysterious status updates and tweets that only 2 out of your 500+ friends list would understand is sort of pointless.
I understand that I may not be “in the loop” and not know what you mean by that cryptic message you are posting. . .but then again isn’t that type of thing better suited as an email to the 3 people that get it?
I mean when I see things like “Today is the day...” my mind travels from lobotomy to breast augmentation and everything in between as potential events.
That is unless you are really just being coy so that 17 people ask "For what?!!” before you grace us with an answer!
I understand that I may not be “in the loop” and not know what you mean by that cryptic message you are posting. . .but then again isn’t that type of thing better suited as an email to the 3 people that get it?
I mean when I see things like “Today is the day...” my mind travels from lobotomy to breast augmentation and everything in between as potential events.
That is unless you are really just being coy so that 17 people ask "For what?!!” before you grace us with an answer!
Labels: Today is the day
I am often critical of Media News Coverage. Take Amy Winehouse's death: the top news organizations all covered her death ad nauseum, but the monumental famine in Somalia received 5 minutes of airtime that day.
I have absolutely no opinion on whether people should mourn her or not. . .people are free to mourn anything and anyone. I am questioning the lack of perspective in our media coverage.
I am not asking people to do anything here, I don't have a horse in the race of whether people mourn her or not.
I do a serious concern that 99% of people in America can tell me that she died because of the media covering her death, but a substantially smaller percentage would be aware of the famine in Somalia, because of the "selective" nature of news coverage in pandering to "bumper sticker" reporting.
The fact that CNN tried to further dramatize the event by playing the "cause of death unknown" card while having Dr. Drew opine on addiction made this coverage even more ridiculous.
People not getting news with proper context and perspective is a big deal. . . that's how we end up following Lady Gaga and Paris Hilton only to wake one day and realize that because of the budget cuts that we were NOT following, half of the engineering department at college X has been eliminated.
Again, is it news that a 27 year old artist died. . .YES. . .in context, should it dwarf 11,000 people dying of famine?
NO!
I have absolutely no opinion on whether people should mourn her or not. . .people are free to mourn anything and anyone. I am questioning the lack of perspective in our media coverage.
I am not asking people to do anything here, I don't have a horse in the race of whether people mourn her or not.
I do a serious concern that 99% of people in America can tell me that she died because of the media covering her death, but a substantially smaller percentage would be aware of the famine in Somalia, because of the "selective" nature of news coverage in pandering to "bumper sticker" reporting.
The fact that CNN tried to further dramatize the event by playing the "cause of death unknown" card while having Dr. Drew opine on addiction made this coverage even more ridiculous.
People not getting news with proper context and perspective is a big deal. . . that's how we end up following Lady Gaga and Paris Hilton only to wake one day and realize that because of the budget cuts that we were NOT following, half of the engineering department at college X has been eliminated.
Again, is it news that a 27 year old artist died. . .YES. . .in context, should it dwarf 11,000 people dying of famine?
NO!
Labels: Death and other pleasantries
A child will die every 6 minutes today in Somalia, where some 11,000 people have died of famine in the last 2 months. . . on to more important news in the world: An overindulging 27 year old whose most notable lyrics were "they tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'no no no'" was found dead in her apartment of "unknown causes". Aaah the sweet taste of denial and "fair trade coffee,"
Labels: Ah the joys of
