It’s been a busy thirty-six hours, fortunately with positive results. Modern medicine is truly a wonder.
I sort of checked out for a bit, leaving all of you in charge of the world. What in the hell hapened? I go back to looking at the Internet again and I find:
1. There are “patriots” out there who are seriously bent out of shape over the “It’s Beautiful” Coke ad on Sunday (at the 16:48 time stamp) because it wasn’t sung in English and one of the images that flashed by showed a gay couple with a child? I get it that most of the “outrage” comes from uber-right wingnuts lacking in two rational brain cells to rub together. Glenn Beck’s got the planet’s franchise on the paranoid, bigoted, and racist asshole stereotype. You expect that from him. And the Faux News commentator is no doubt a disciple trying to prove that he can be just as much of a hate-filled, mindless mouthpiece spewing out the ignorance and outright lies that are their stock in trade. As for the “former” Tea Party Congressman, can we assume that he found out that spouting nonsense like this is why he’s a “former” congress-critter? Maybe there weren’t enough straight, white, gun-toting, Bible-thumping voters in his district to win re-election after everyone else figured out what a mistake they had made by buying his song and dance and allowing him to be elected in the first place.
Sorry that the song wasn’t sung in English the way that Jesus would have sung it — but that might have been only the most obvious of the many points that they’re too blind to see.
2. There are people who are outraged over the bi-racial family in the Cheerios commercial (at 16:12) because their racist, bigoted, ignorant outrage over the previous commercial with the same fictional family didn’t prevent General Mills from ever thinking about doing another ad just like it? How do these people get their fingers and (presumably) opposable thumbs to type messages on the Internet spewing this bile and bullshit when their heads and souls are still living in the 1950’s — or the 1850’s?
My unqualified congratulations and thanks go to General Mills and Coke for putting these two wonderful ads on the air on such a prominent stage. Even more props to them both for not backing down an inch now that the cretins have crawled out from under their rocks, so we’ll be seeing these ads on a regular basis for a while. The haters, bigots, morons, and racists can do us all a favor by taking a long walk off of a short pier.
3. Bill Nye the Science Guy did a televised “debate” with some creationist fanatic? I love Bill Nye to death, think he’s up there with Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson in the effort to explain complex science subjects to the average person. I also applaud and salute all of their efforts to get more girls to study math, science, and engineering in school and aim high for careers in those fields.
But what in hell is he doing giving any sort of legitimacy to these clowns who are pushing creationism to be taught in the schools as science? These people are sadly and horribly deranged and misguided and they need to be opposed at every opportunity. No matter how good Bill Nye is at what he’s doing, he’s never going to convince any fanatics that they’re wrong. They can’t be wrong, God’s on their side, that 2000-year-old “word of God” (which so blatantly isn’t) says so, blah, blah, blah… All he’s doing is giving them a bigger forum to spout their nonsense, and now they can point at the “debate” and say, “See, we won!” (which they can’t), and “See, we’re legit!” (which they aren’t).
Better you than me if it had to be done, Bill — but I’m not at all sure that it had to be done. I know that they can’t simply be ignored like pesky telemarketers. I wish they could, but they’re trying to destroy the education of an entire generation of kids, and succeeding in places like Texas. Opposing them at every turn and constantly pointing out how ridiculous (not to mention unconstitutional, separation of church and state and all of that) they are? Yes! Getting involved in this kind of circus? Bad move. Didn’t someone say, “Never mud wrestle with a pig — you’ll get dirty and the pig likes it?”
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At least pitchers and catchers report for my beloved Angels in nine days. (The Dodgers report in just four days, getting an early start because they open the season in Sydney, Australia.) That should help restore a touch of sanity to the world. Even more so if Hamilton and Pujols can remember how to hit and our pitching can do better than “only sucks a little bit”…
Yeah, baseball will help.
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