tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post480743696502318888..comments2024-01-05T06:18:18.086-05:00Comments on CommentaramaPolitics: Rampant StupidityAndrewPricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-34130638253341092772016-02-08T23:45:17.835-05:002016-02-08T23:45:17.835-05:00Thanks, Bev, and added tip o' my cap re. The F...Thanks, Bev, and added tip o' my cap re. The Flip Wilson Show, which I forgot to mention in the above. One of my early favorite shows (reruns, natch), gloriously re-watching of late via the Up Network. Beautiful one this past weekend featuring Don Rickles and Ray Charles, too, illustrating the genius of all three, notably "Geraldine" singing with Ray. Yup, I had a great childhood.EPorvaznikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653412963180740901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-79156307337250612402016-02-08T23:44:10.412-05:002016-02-08T23:44:10.412-05:00Thanks, Bev, and added tip o' my cap re. The F...Thanks, Bev, and added tip o' my cap re. The Flip Wilson Show, which I forgot to mention in the above. One of my early favorite shows (reruns, natch), gloriously re-watching of late via the Up Network. Beautiful one this past weekend featuring Don Rickles and Ray Charles, too, illustrating the genius of all three, notably "Geraldine" singing with Ray. Yup, I had a great childhood.EPorvaznikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653412963180740901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-46763040397200221912016-02-08T20:54:59.169-05:002016-02-08T20:54:59.169-05:00Bev and Kosh, every generation should get their ow...Bev and Kosh, every generation should get their own disease. For Millenials, I vote for Flaming Diarrhea Pocks. :)AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-1676413738530105452016-02-08T20:51:54.174-05:002016-02-08T20:51:54.174-05:00Kit2075, I'm only 26, so I can't quite rem...Kit2075, I'm only 26, so I can't quite remember a world before they ran the internet right through everyone's heads.<br /><br />Not sure how I feel about that.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-86740124620449573942016-02-08T20:18:00.230-05:002016-02-08T20:18:00.230-05:00Koshcat - re: AIDS. We may see it with the Zika v...Koshcat - re: AIDS. We may see it with the Zika virus. I am not sure my generation handled AIDS all that well. Instead of taking it serious as a major health crisis, we kind of turned it into a political crisis. BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-14425039924543873952016-02-08T20:01:40.562-05:002016-02-08T20:01:40.562-05:00EP - Wonderful rant! There was a time where we us...EP - Wonderful rant! There was a time where we used humor to make a point. All of those '60's and '70's shows you name made a very important point, but with humor. I just recently was watching an old episode of the "Flip Wilson Show" and it made me sad. He dealt with complicated racial issues with amazing humor while still making a strong point. We've lost our sense of humor...BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-36179905573124728732016-02-08T19:59:16.927-05:002016-02-08T19:59:16.927-05:00I'm 26 so I can't quite remember a world w...I'm 26 so I can't <i>quite</i> remember a world w/o internet but I can remember it just getting started. Kithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453591141757808708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-8325687957020864302016-02-08T19:57:38.263-05:002016-02-08T19:57:38.263-05:00Scott - You and Kit are certainly the exception. B...Scott - You and Kit are certainly the exception. Both of you have a wonderful sense of history. But, the dividing line for me is "Have ever used a typewriter or touchtone landline or, God forbid, a payphone?" If the answer is...a blank stare, I know what I am dealing with. ;-)<br /><br />Did anyone else miss the Budweiser Clydesdales? I did. Those were the best...BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-84460069683381566322016-02-08T19:53:04.101-05:002016-02-08T19:53:04.101-05:00The Cult? One of those bands I heard about growin...The Cult? One of those bands I heard about growing up but I don't think I could name or recognize any of their songs. With today's tender children regarding race, I wonder how they would have handled a band such as N.W.A.? Further, they see themselves as sooo sensitive but I'm not sure they would have handled the AIDS epidemic any better. Has this generation actually had a well known person die of AIDS?<br /><br />Now get off my lawn while I walk uphill both ways to work in a blizzard.Koshcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00552108950848576633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-5322339853552283412016-02-08T19:05:35.414-05:002016-02-08T19:05:35.414-05:00>> But I must point out that there is a worl...>> But I must point out that there is a world of difference between the first millennials (i.e.: me) and young people today who might as well constitute an entirely different generation. (Never knowing a life without the Internet makes a good dividing line.) >><br /><br />Good to know as I tend to see the divide at Pre- and Post-Partcipation Trophy. ;-)EPorvaznikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653412963180740901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-23196500484680442222016-02-08T19:00:26.255-05:002016-02-08T19:00:26.255-05:00Eric, An OH LOL! Nice! :)
On race, the evidence ...Eric, An OH LOL! Nice! :)<br /><br />On race, the evidence suggests that most people are moving well beyond it, but there are still holdovers and it's too bad that someone like Newton reflexively goes back to that old trope.<br />AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-75322396252206443932016-02-08T18:52:06.880-05:002016-02-08T18:52:06.880-05:00Bev, LOL! There's irony for you... "huma...Bev, LOL! There's irony for you... "humanizing" a baby. What are they if not human? Oh yeah, economic impediments.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-15561823717751586552016-02-08T18:51:21.082-05:002016-02-08T18:51:21.082-05:00Kit, I thought the Doritos commercial was kind of ...Kit, I thought the Doritos commercial was kind of silly. It's just meant to shock you and they clearly ran out of other things to shock people with. It does seem to have upset people though.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-25399305255521831852016-02-08T18:39:07.216-05:002016-02-08T18:39:07.216-05:00(no offense to Kit and ScottDS, who repeatedly pro...<i>(no offense to Kit and ScottDS, who repeatedly prove themselves exceptions to the millennial rule)</i><br /><br />Aww, thanks. But I must point out that there is a world of difference between the first millennials (i.e.: me) and young people today who might as well constitute an entirely different generation. (Never knowing a life without the Internet makes a good dividing line.) ScottDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619078842202925064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-74446891613148221422016-02-08T17:25:07.210-05:002016-02-08T17:25:07.210-05:00>>I agree about Newton and I think that'...>>I agree about Newton and I think that's the problem. I think it's being taught as a reflex that race is always one of the key elements of anything involving blacks. That kind of thinking is disastrous.>><br /><br />Sadly, if my experience on the LA “subway” (quotation marks in deference to my Long Island wife, who mockingly chuckles whenever hearing “subway” outside the context of NYC’s) this past weekend’s any indication, don't expect it to get better any time soon. Guerrilla-style webcast camera crew (damned if I can remember their call-letters), hopped on-board a few stops shy of Hollywood, and proceeded to interview select people with the none-too-subtle query, “Does racism still exist?” Please bear in mind 25ish years ago, the sound and camera guys could easily have been extras on the set of Forrest Gump, fake-bothered by the title character breaking up their Black Panther Party, and the gal doing the interviewing could have been Angela Davis’ stand-in. Again, none-too-subtle questioning. Clad in my X shirt, straight outta The Cult’s gig a couple hours earlier, I apparently didn’t meet their target demo, and they walked on past me to the other end of the car. Ahhhh, if only they’d known I had been cuttin’ heads with some young brothas I heard on the corener as I left the concert a few minutes earlier, joyfully swappin’ lines from the Fear of a Black Hat soundtrack, watching their eyes light up to see an O.H. (O-riginal Honkey) like myself spittin’ out “Fuck the security guards,” “Ice froggy frog,” and adapting “Bald and black” to “Balding and black” before signing off with the Rhyme Animal – “Yo, man, fuck Hollywood.” Yeah, content of character and not color of skin, most definitely not the guerrilla crew’s demo.<br /><br />I truly feel sorry for this generation (no offense to Kit and ScottDS, who repeatedly prove themselves exceptions to the millennial rule), who didn’t get to experience a natural and gradual dissipation of racism following the genuine turmoil and racial upheaval of the 1960s. I’m most certainly not naïve enough to say I haven’t witnessed racism in my life (thanks to my stunningly bigoted grandfather (RIP), my dad has on more than one occasion said he wants to sue Norman Lear over rights to Archie Bunker), but thanks to a time when Hollywood (and society) was responsibly attentive to the race issue, my friends and I saw people of all colors and religions interacting together because they liked each other -- Welcome Back, Kotter, Chico and the Man, The White Shadow -- or watched race relations handled comedically and dramatically when the gravitas dictated – Diff’rent Strokes, Sanford & Son, or the All in the Family stable of shows. Nothing was force-fed, no “affirmative action” casting to meet a quota. To bum a line from his Royal Purpleness, black, white, Puerto Rican – everybody’s just a-freakin’! Glorious days and good times indeed!<br /><br />I have confidence we can get back that time, but Lord knows it won’t be easy, not thanks to the last 7+ years of race-baiting being condoned and practiced from the Oval Office and Attorney Generals’ offices, setting race relations perilously back 40 years.EPorvaznikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653412963180740901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-23229133615162799772016-02-08T17:15:23.819-05:002016-02-08T17:15:23.819-05:00Kit - I for one hate when someone tries to "h...Kit - I for one hate when someone tries to "humanize" babies...but that's just me.<br /><br />If you followed on Twitter, every single commercial was wrought with some kind "political statement". Like that wonderful Hyundai ad with the old senile astronaut. On the face it was so sweet, but the first was "they are letting some old senile man drive a car that fast and while we're at it, why not an old senile FEMALE astronaut, huh???<br /><br />It was about that time that I turned over to Downton Abbey where all is grace and charm.BevfromNYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953050916932306270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-2909409673890157352016-02-08T16:24:56.656-05:002016-02-08T16:24:56.656-05:00Oh, any thoughts on that silly Doritos commercial ...Oh, any thoughts on that silly Doritos commercial featuring the unborn baby on the ultrasound hungry for Doritos chips?<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko7GuDOv4BM" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><br />And any thoughts on the pro-abortion group NARAL slamming it for "using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses"? Kithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453591141757808708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-18048663549695054832016-02-08T16:09:15.987-05:002016-02-08T16:09:15.987-05:00correction: "ending with the start of the rei...correction: "ending <i>with the start of</i> the reign of Augustus"Kithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453591141757808708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-84035763836029019832016-02-08T16:08:19.695-05:002016-02-08T16:08:19.695-05:00Jed,
re Rome; it is worth remembering that show i...Jed,<br /><br />re <i>Rome</i>; it is worth remembering that show is set in the mid-to-late 1st century BC, ending with the reign of Augustus when Rome started its golden age streak of about 150-200 years. Kithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453591141757808708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-57353284448575415322016-02-08T15:47:16.987-05:002016-02-08T15:47:16.987-05:00EPorvaznik -
Thanks! Those are two of my favorit...EPorvaznik - <br /><br />Thanks! Those are two of my favorites.ScottDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09619078842202925064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-63716607160772758902016-02-08T15:32:24.632-05:002016-02-08T15:32:24.632-05:00Jed, I suspect ISIS would behead her and then use ...Jed, I suspect ISIS would behead her and then use her as a sex slave. That seems like their thing.<br /><br />I agree about Newton and I think that's the problem. I think it's being taught as a reflex that race is always one of the key elements of anything involving blacks. That kind of thinking is disastrous.<br />AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-77052438956838956702016-02-08T15:30:27.981-05:002016-02-08T15:30:27.981-05:00Koshcat, I think they got caught up in the hype an...Koshcat, I think they got caught up in the hype and weren't prepared fro Wade Phillips to play such an attacking style of defense. It was very high risk, but he really never gave them any room to breathe. And I'll bet it was a shock to them to be manhandled like that when they thought they would be the ones doing the manhandling.<br /><br />I like Rivera a lot and suspect he will have them back several times. They seem like a rising contender. Of course, I would expect Denver to be back too, especially as Osweiler improves.<br /><br />What amazes me about the Zika thing is how widespread it got itself so fast. It seemed to go from nothing to everywhere in weeks.<br /><br />Bush might as well try it at this point. LOL!AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-36134104245702879882016-02-08T15:26:17.446-05:002016-02-08T15:26:17.446-05:00Eric, I concur. She's well past her sell-by d...Eric, I concur. She's well past her sell-by date.AndrewPricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312364467936820986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-77147608069673688882016-02-08T15:13:49.543-05:002016-02-08T15:13:49.543-05:00Even in my own case, I was pissed at "Yonce&q...Even in my own case, I was pissed at "Yonce" who brings the worst of race relations and dwindling morals in our society together in an unholy alliance. If anyone happened to watch HBO's mini-series Rome several years back, you might have noticed a subtle similarity with today's society. Now I may be a geezer, but was never a holier than thou sort. Still, I can't help but wonder if our secularist ion is leading to an overall decline. I also, perversely, wondered if ISIS captured Beyoncé, would they use her as a sex slave or just behead her?Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251675227852122352.post-21024426978143904712016-02-08T15:08:34.081-05:002016-02-08T15:08:34.081-05:00As much as I am saddened by it, I do understand wh...As much as I am saddened by it, I do understand why a guy like Newton goes for the race card so quickly. It is a gut reflex, based, not entirely, on a history of bad race relations and fed by politicians and media whose own interests are served by it. It is not a reaction based on reasoned critical thinking. Tennessee Jedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10604275115906776992noreply@blogger.com