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By nikflorida on May 26, 2011 Today, I saw a headline that pretty much summed up what I think is fundamentally wrong about this society. On ATL Boy, they featured a story from American Idol Buzz that asks, “Who won American Idol? Scotty or Lauren?” As if. Needless to say, Scotty McCreary, the teen country singer, took home the [...] [...]
By nikflorida on February 12, 2011 Sometimes, I think, people’s insane babbling is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even bear addressing, but rather should just be dismissed quickly and quietly, lest its lunatic, baseless nature be given some credence and validation. “I won’t justify that with a response,” the old saw goes. Some years ago, I recall a talk show host [...] [...]
By nikflorida on January 28, 2011 So, Bill O’Reilly says that without sponsors, a show can’t stay on the air. Not true! The liberal watchdog group, Media Matters, this morning takes O’Reilly to task for his commentary yesterday about the MTV show, Skins, and its loss of advertisers, apparently as a consequence of the show’s controversial content . [...] [...]
By nikflorida on August 28, 2010 Two Very Different Functions of the Human Brain Well, today’s Glenn Beck’s absurd “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, and I’m sure Dr King is rolling in his grave, but my doctors tell me that I have to maintain a low distress level to grow my t-cell count, so I’m not going to dwell. [...] [...]
By nikflorida on July 21, 2010 Shirley Sherrod’s not a racist after all It was a toss-up about what to write today. The Republican refusal to extend emergency unemployment benefits, thwarted in the US Senate, using “deficit reduction” as an excuse for what can only be described as extortion, by which big businesses are aided in their attempt to reduce employee [...] [...]
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