For some reason yesterday, I set my Facebook language to German. I’d been playing the German versions of the South Park Dreidel song and Mr. Hankey der Weinhactskot, and then for some reason there was a link on Facebook that said “switch to Deutsch” or something. So, I clicked it, and now I have 20 postfach, 2 Veranstaltungseinladungen, 2 Gruppeneinladungen, 2 Seitenvorschläge, 25 weitere Anfragenmy, my sister has zurückstupsen me, and Liz Winstead and I have 10 gemeinsame Freunde. While I can figure out what most of that means, I’ll be damned if I can figure out how the hell to change it back to English. Was fickt das? Good thing I don’t use it much.
I get the impression that a lot of people hate Tiger Woods, don’t you? I mean, OK, he appears to be a bit of a – what would you call it? Scallywag? Rake? Debaucher? Duchovny? I guess he’s a bit of a phony and a hypocrite (and kind of a dick), but there’s plenty of that going around. Assuming you’re not married to him, though, I fail to see the obsession with him and his philandering (it’s not like he went MIA from the Governor’s Mansion or something). I’d like to think I’m a better person than that, but it’s definitely a lot easier to stay “pure” when you’re not a billionaire and don’t exactly have the women pounding on your door. I mean, let he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that.
Speaking of scumbags, it looks like Bill O’Reilly has his knickers in a knot about Law and Order producer Dick Wolff (which seems kinda ironic; based on Andrea Mackris’ lawsuit against him, Bill – like Tiger – seems like a bit of a Dick Wolf himself). Apparently Bill really doesn’t have a handle on the whole fiction vs. reality thing (no surprise there), and has taken umbrage at a line uttered by one of the characters on a recent L&O show:
Garrison, Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, all of them. They’re like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate. I mean, they have convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system.
Personally, I’d have added Dobbs to that list, but, whatever. Bill was most decidedly not amused.
O’Reilly called that “simply defamatory and outrageous,” and labeled Wolf “a coward” and “a liar.”
“I have consistently defended poor people who only want a better life,” O’Reilly said. “If you watch ‘The Factor’ you know my beef is with the federal government not controlling illegal immigration and with violent aliens who wreak havoc once they get here.”
O’Reilly went on to call Wolf “a despicable human being for distorting and exploiting this very complicated situation.”
Oh, boo-fuckin’-hoo, Billy. Want a little cheese with that whine?
Oh well, I slept in late this morning, so I guess I better get busy. Have a good day, y’all.
Final score from last night:
North Carolina 0
Akron 0
Good news is that after two scoreless overtimes, the Zips pulled it out winning on penalty shots. The bad news is that the damn game went to penalty shots despite UNC playing a man short for the last 20 minutes of the second half and both overtimes due to a red card. Both teams looked strong, but hopefully the Zips can regroup and figure out better ways to get the ball into the net.
Championship game against Virginia is Sunday at 1 PM EST on ESPN2. It’s the perfect excuse for me to not watch the Bucs, although this year it’s not as if anyone needs one.
Speaking of the Bucs, local scuttlebutt (that actually is no longer local, since it made the Daily Kos this morning) is that Hillsborough County Dems are trying to talk future first-ballot HOF linebacker Derrick Brooks into running for a Florida Senate seat. So far Brooks has said he’s not interested at this time, but it doesn’t sound all that convincing to me.
If he ran, the only suspense would be in the margin of victory. Brooks was practically worshipped while he was playing for FSU and the Bucs, and is very visible and active in a number of community charities. This is a complete non-brainer if he agrees to run. Not sure how progressive he is on issues, but if he gets into the race I guess we’ll find out. Anything short of a right-wing loony would be an improvement in the FL Senate, though.
Any time O’Reilly is upset, I assume someone has said something true about him. But, Billo makes a living from being upset so he should probably send some moolah to Mr. Wolf.
I have resisted facebook, in spite of family and friends who seem pleased to put their photos on the internet and talk to people they stopped talking to long ago. I guess I am an incorrigible misanthrope.
Thank you PJ, for the celsius conversion lesson. I managed to bake some pumpkin muffins and not burn them.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a report on Wednesday that is bound to stir conversation about the increasingly complicated cacophony of spirituality in America — a mash-up of traditional faiths, fantasy and mythology.
Entitled “Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths,†the report points out that many Americans are now choosing to “blend Christianity with Eastern or New Age beliefs†and that “sizable minorities of all major U.S. religious groups†said that they have had supernatural experiences, like encountering ghosts.
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Democrats were almost twice as likely to believe in ghosts and to consult fortune-tellers than were Republicans, and the Democrats were 71 percent more likely to believe that they were in touch with the dead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/opinion/12blow.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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