How is it that most sports announcers are painfully inarticulate, obnoxious, and seemingly lacking in any relevant sport specific knowledge or potential for insight? How is it guys like Rick Sutcliffe, Joe Morgan, Tim McCarver, and to a degree Joe Buck, all have jobs covering baseball games? These guys must all be wracked with latter stage dementia, besides Buck who just wants to blow anybody who has ever put on a uniform. The madness that comes out of these guys' mouths is downright distracting. Nationally televised baseball games should be covered exclusively by Mike Tirico, Steve Phillips, Orel Hershiser, Dennis Eckersley, and Al Leiter, or some combination thereof.
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Sotomayer is a racist, huh? Really? As I've said before in this forum, someone should slap these grumpy old white men around. All of them. If these talking heads and policy makers can't adequately contextualize and comprehend a statement that was obviously meant to highlight the fact that the obstacles a non-white person encounters as they traipse through life could possibly set them apart from their white counterparts by granting them an enhanced capacity/spectrum for empathy, then they shouldn't have a forum to run their mouths, and they certainly shouldn't have any authority to evaluate the qualifications and suitability of a candidate for the supreme court. When was the last time anything in Knute Gingrich's life was made more difficult by the fact that he was Knute Gingrich? Besides futile attempts at getting laid. The very fact that these people have taken such issue with her statements speaks to their validity.
These same idiots provided the impetus for the following faux [hilarious] news story:
Conservatives Warn Quick Sex Change Only Barrier Between Gays, Marriage
I won't even mention the way they also promulgated the sort of misguided social perspectives that provided some nut bag the justification to murder George Tiller. Oops. Just did. Sure, Bill O'Reilly might not actually have blood on his hands, but he's still an unforgivable fuck face.
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I was initially very disappointed to read on several reputable online sources that Pearl Jam had entered into a deal with Target. Long after having waged an admirable but ultimately unsuccessful war against Ticketmaster, the notion that they would play their new single at a secret show in Seattle only to have the performance recorded by Cameron Crowe and edited into a music video AND Target ad seemed unthinkable. Until I was reminded of the fact that the band has recorded and plans the release of their new album without the support of a record label. I for one am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until privy to all details.
In a decidedly more straightforwardly cool move, PJ unleashed their new single on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" last night:
2 comments:
Pearl Jam and Target, huh? Better than Walmart/Bruce Springstein, but not by much. Another thing they did recently that pissed me off was lend their music to Cold Case. Did you see this? They did like 2 episodes with all Pearl Jam music. It was stupid.
What did you think about their Conan performance? Eddie seemed off his game. I do like the song though and am really hoping they add more US tour dates.
target donates a relatively large percentage of their overall profits to arts organizations, it's part of the mission statement of the company. i don't know the actual percentage, but it's a lot of money... you could look it up internet geek. perhaps this helped seal the deal with your beloved grunge anti-establishment rock band.
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