Monday, March 08, 2004

Rick Heller says that he's glad to see that Kerry is willing to act unilaterally if it's necessary to defend the United States and that now we just have to decide who has the better judgement, Bush or Kerry. Luckily, we already have some information to make that decision with.
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Terrell Owens, the biggest crybaby in football. At least until tomorrow. At what point do you become so self-involved that you can't understand that some things are your fault and if you break the rules, you have to live with the consequences? People like that are usually deemed sociopathic. But T.O., he's just a football player.

Note to the unenlightened, T.O. and his agent missed a deadline to void his contract and become a free agent, thus missing out on a huge payoff after 8 really good seasons. Now he's been traded to the Ravens for his remaining contract price and is understandably pissed, though at the wrong people for the wrong reasons (look inward my child). Just more proof that sometimes, crybabies and whiners get their comeuppance.

Of course, the player's union is going to fight this. If you have a star player, you want him to be paid star money so that you can keep having football players paid more and more, which in and of itself, I'm all for. But this is just whining and I don't see how they have much of a case. But this is football, stranger things have happened.
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James Lileks has a great post (I haven't really ever read one that wasn't but whatever) and it's all worthy of attention, funny, smart interesting stuff. But this quote really caught my eye:
    I was not a Clinton hater. I eventually developed an eww-ick distaste of the man, but I was frequently amused and impressed by the politician; he was good. And he did some things I liked. It’s possible, you know: you can disapprove of a politician’s value set, applaud some decisions, dislike others, and wish his exit - that’s normal and American. If you see the guy on TV and you have an aneurism because the crawl doesn’t say THIS MAN BURST FROM A CARBUNCLE ON SATAN’S BUTT! you have a problem.

I know people like that, several of them actually. It's difficult to have a discussion with people like that, people who buy every conspiracy theory thrown at them. Actually, it's downright impossible to discuss politics with them. I'm sure there are people out there who were just like that with Clinton too. People with extremist views like that don't seem to be too very different than the ones who want to kill all Americans. Those people buy every theory they run into that fits into their world view of America as the Great Satan or whatever. I've talked about assuming intelligence before until proven otherwise and it's the lack of that assumption in all these people that I just don't understand.
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