Thu
Apr
17
The Democratic candidates met tonight for their 21st televised debate. Think about that for a moment. 21 debates. In the primaries. Some of them were so utterly futile they amounted to children bickering over the last slice of pizza at the kiddy table.
Some time ago, during the Wisconsin primary I believe, Obama said he was going to cut back on the number of debates he participates in and focus on campaigning. He course came under immediate fire from Clinton, who painted him as someone who’s afraid of a debate, or doesn’t want to face the issues.
Well he was damn right. After 20 debates what more were the two candidates going to cover? The answer is nothing. They rehashed the media circuses over the past few weeks regarding Obama’s bitterness remarks and Hillary’s active imagination. They discussed people Obama knows and how Bill pardoned some those same people’s colleagues. And they of course discussed issues that have been covered again, and again and again.
The entire show was a waste of time and was clearly treated as such by the candidates, moderatores and audience, who naturally showed their disdain by heckling the moderators at the conclusion. I would have too. Nothing was learned, no revelations were made and republicans were able to sit back and laugh at the petty squabbling of the Democratic Party. Huzzah!
Fri
Apr
11
I love baseball. It provides solid sports entertainment for over half the year, is absurdly relaxing and remains one of the best things to fall asleep to. I could take naps to a baseball game for the rest of time. Really, if you put a game on that never ended, I would probably never wake up, except to groggily check the score.
With all that said, here are two comments I feel must be made:
1. It is absolutely devastating that the Braves are no longer on TBS. Devastating! I would go so far as to say criminal. Having the Braves on pretty much nightly was one of the most reliable aspects of sports. You could always count on them. 6:00 on a Wednesday and there is nothing on? Tune to TBS for the Braves. You haven’t seen the Marlins yet this year? Well they are playing the Braves on TBS, check them out. I can’t even recall an era where they weren’t on television constantly. This season is a sad end to an era. Even sadder given that we are now subjected to more Everybody Loves Raymond, which is a waste of everyone’s time everywhere.
2. One of my favorite ideas ever is for an audio option on sporting events where you could simply turn off the announcers. Listening to the sounds of baseball without the annoying prattling of Joe Morgan or whomever would be fantastic. If there is a white noise CD of sounds at a baseball game I need to find and listen to/nap the hell out of it.
Thu
Apr
10
To quote the immortal Jules, “I was just sitting here, eating my muffin, drinking my coffee, when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.” Unfortunately my moment of clarity involved being disturbed, quite rudely, from my muffin and coffee. Or in this case, Pepsi and sandwich.
The clarity in question is that headphones are in my view a universal sign of “go away”. If they’re not, they should be. Red means stop, green means go and headphones mean leave me the fuck alone. If I’m eating lunch, engrossed in a newspaper and listening to assorted musics it is a good bet that I do not want to be disturbed by some clown wanting to make a comment about the weather. No one wants to hear about the weather in the first place anyways.
It rained today. I didn’t much care for that.
