A Friday Visit to Bizarro Land
We’re at the end of the week once again when I talk about whatever appeals to or appalls me with some silly stuff thrown in for good measure.
Before we get to the silly stuff (and martini making), let’s bow our heads in a brief moment of silence for John McCain’s double suicide - his self-respect and integrity. Politics (and lust for the presidency) makes people do very strange things. Sad, very sad.
Calm Understatement of the Year: “It would be a bad day for the solar system if we got visited by a black hole,” says Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. (Apparently, some of those bad boy holes wander around the universe.)
Oh, I dunno - if it means I’d get to meet the crew of SG-1 in the hole, what’s a little crushing gravity? Dibs on Lt. Colonel Mitchell! “Now, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!”
More from the “I just can’t make up stuff this good” file:
1. Pretty much anything Katherine Harris does or says. And the photos! What on earth is she doing with the possum? Could it be her new campaign manager? (And, is it a good Christian possum?)
2. Donald Rumsfeld being irate about people’s “lack of perspective.” Well, it takes one to know one.
3. That incredibly stupid Forbes article
warning men to stay away from career/professional women. (Apparently, if you marry one of us, you’ll end up a cuckold, sittin’ around the filthy house while wearing stained undies and eating cold beans out of a can.) Reads to me like frightened old white male backlash. Ohhh…woman with brain scary! Woman with job and brain even more scary! Nice that he cloaked it all in them thar scientific studies (without giving us the background on sample sizes, demographics, context of questions and other little details - but then, I’m sure I shouldn’t bother my fluffy blonde head about such things.) Full Disclosure: I like men. Some of my favorite people are male.
4. Tucker Carlson and Jerry Springer competing on the reality show, Dancing with the Stars. (Scotty, ET, Mitchell, somebody - beam me up, dial the rings, whatever - get me outta here, please.)
Bottoms up! (unless you’re a possum, that is.)
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September 5th, 2006 at 10:53 am
I have since heard (although I am unable to confirm this) that the incredibly stupid Forbes article was a web traffic generating ploy, deliberately authored to be THAT stupid in the hopes that outraged ‘Netizens would zing and fling the link to the offending article all over everywhere via email and blog links — as, indeed, has happened. Viva la viral marketing!
Not sure what said ploy does for the Forbes brand but, it worked — ya gotta admit, it worked.
September 5th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Could be. But, how clueless can Forbes be? So, now, they’ve got a lot of enraged people..and that is going to help their bottom line how? The point should be to encourage people to read them and in turn give them money. Hellooo????
Oh, and hmmm…so they can sell their site traffic to potential advertisers. What a great pitch! Look at how many upset, ticked off people we attract! Yep, that’s the target I’d want to advertise to.