Saturday, November 06, 2004

They Have Different Drummers Be it far from me to be judgmental (or hypocritical), but I don't understand some people.  I just can't fathom how they view the world.  How they get through life without drowning in their own stupidity.  How they manage to wake up every morning just as moronic as they were the day before, see nothing wrong with that fact, make one colossally bad move after another, and still make it to bed safe and sound at the end of the day. And for once I'm not even talking about republicans! No, I'm talking about people like Neil Melly and his burning desire to make it to Australia.  For whatever reason, he couldn't get a ticket with his credit card the other day. So in Mr. Melly's mind, the next best option is to strip off all his clothes, sprint across the runway, and climb into the wheel-well of a plane bound for Australia.  Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan, right?  Then there's Mianne Bagger, who was born a guy, but then had a sex-change operation, and then this past week his/her life long dream of playing on the LPGA women's golfing tour came true.  Now we can argue about whether that idea was stupid or not, depending on how you view the whole idea of transsexualism.  But what I feel is unquestionably moronic is her answer to why she went through all this.   According to one article, he/she was just trying to fulfill his/her "childhood ambition." Huh? If you found me when I was seven years old back in 1978, asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, kept refusing every answer I gave until I somehow spit out "have a sex-change so I can play women's professional golf," you'd still be waiting for that answer.  And you probably heard about the guy who tried to convert lions into Christians last week.  You know, I can't even get my cat to stay off the coffee table, much less accept Jesus as his lord and savior.  And what I don't understand is how that guy managed to get to be forty-six years old with ideas like this clogging up his brain. Or what about the fellow who paid $215,000 for a cell phone number.  Why?  Because its a lucky number.  Oh, ok. How the hell can someone that stupid even have access to $215,000? Then there's the high school senior from Michigan who went to the school's Halloween party dressed as a KKK member.  Apparently the staff at that Grand Rapids high school aren't any brighter.  Not only did they allow him to stroll around in his KKK outfit, but he also won the costume contest. If he'd wear that, maybe he'd be asinine enough to wear this, too. Again, sometimes I just don't understand some people. Related link: Mianne Bagger:  official site 6:44:01 PM     |

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