Friday, July 1, 2011
Big Fat Friday Free For All
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A special July 4th Holiday Weekend BFFFFA for all to observe! Feeling down about the debt ceiling talks? Wondering how much your taxes will go up? Forget how old your kids are lately? Bitch about it folks--right here, right now!
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The Blog: A compendium of thoughts on politics, world affairs, economics, pop culture and social issues, from the center right perspective of me--Bryan McGrath--a University of Virginia graduate who spent a career in the world's greatest Navy keeping my mouth shut about politics and social issues (ok, publicly keeping it shut). Those days are over! Pull up a chair and chime in where you will. Keep it clean, civil, concise and relevant.
The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
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The Fish: The fish is a "coat of arms" for the blog, symbolizing three formative influences in the life of the blog founder. The first is his experience at the University of Virginia--symbolized most importantly by the fish itself, or a caricature of a "Wahoo", the fish we have acquired as an informal nickname. Additionally there is the sword, the sword of a Cavalier. It is not wielded in a threatening manner, as this is a civil blog. But it is there, should it be needed. Thirdly, there is the influence of 21 years in the Navy--symbolized by the anchor on the Wahoo's fin (and again, the sword) . Finally, there is the bowler, tuxedo, and monocle, symbols of a refined, intellectual conservatism, or what I seek to encourage here.
The Policy: I take FULL responsibility for what I write. I will not be held responsible for the content of my comments section--as long as it is civil and passes my own inscrutable sniff tests, it will appear. If the comment offends you, that is on you.
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6 comments:
Great story here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/7065225/the-american-way-of-justice.thtml
"The United States is a wonderful country but its courts and prisons are a disgrace that shames America's pretensions to civilisation, decency and any elementary definition of justice."
Nice to see Great Britain has solved the problem of falsely convicted people.
Do you expect anything less than a society who gave their criminals an all expense paid trip to Australia?
Drivers in Occupied Virginia. When that light turns green, especially the left turn arrow? I want you on the throttle like Connie Kalitta at the Nationals so more than two cars can get through.
chill dude cnt u c im txtg?
I want to talk about television.
As many of you know, I recently moved to a palatial estate overlooking an estuary of the mighty Neuse River (the Seine of Johnston County). Now, when one tranfers utilities etc., it's a good time to make changes (I considered dumping the old lady but she's on the mortgage), so, I decided to take advantage of our local cable company's "bundled" package (HDTV, phone, bidnez class internet).
The internet is good, not great just good, the phone does what a phone does so no problems there, but the TV stinks on ice, and the whole package is expensive. So expensive I'm ashamed to quote the price as you may think me a halfwit (assuming of course you don't think that already).
I don't watch that much TV period, mostly documentaries, some political dramas, History channel and the occasional soft-core on HBO (I really like lipstick leasbians with stap-ons). But I do insist, if I have in fact paid for a particular channel, it must actually be available for viewing, not some screen saying "try again later".
Anyway, to make a long story long I dumped those idiots and got DirectTV, which I had at my previous dwelling (henceforth referred to as "the hovel") and I like it much better.
My point is this: Why can't we pick and chose which channels we we want and reject those we don't? For example, I rarely if ever watch The Comedy Channel. I think Jon Stewart (né Leibowitz) is a dickhead of the first order and prefer not to subsidize his leftist propaganda. I don't think he's at all humorous and I worry about his influence with our impressionable, ill-educated braindead youth. And why should I be forced to pay for channels that exploit fat girls choosing wedding dresses or scumbags catching crab if that isn't my cup of tea?
I think the entertainment industry needs to re-evaluate their market and pay more attention to the needs of the consumer. I only want what I want, nothing more, and I resent being forced to pay for programming I have no interest in.
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