NewsPosted by Tim on May 31, 2006 at 11:35 AM
A headline for a story about the National Spelling Bee, above the masthead in my morning paper, says, “Kan U Spell? Word Nerds’ Time to Shine.” Congratulations kids! The regional newspaper thinks you are a big loser, because you can spell words correctly. I am sure that you won’t get your ass kicked today. There is no link to the headline - the AJC’s on-line version had the good taste not to belittle grade school children’s academic achievements.
Other things that are pissing me off today include:
- Christian Yoga - you know, because the regular yoga is little more than witchcraft.
- The Left Behind video game.
- The 50 best conservative rock songs - which could be the stupidest thing you see all day. How stupid is it? It includes a Clash song. The author should be relieved of his keyboard.
- Lastly, there is a demonstration of striking carpenters going on 27 floors below me. The working man has no greater friend than yours truly, but, dudes, shut up already.
May 31st, 2006 at 5:14 pm
If you want a good laugh, ask the picketers what they’re picketing against. (They have no idea.) The local sucky noozpaper wrote about these protests last year, and reported that since it’s much more profitable for carpenters to work at union wages than carry picket signs all day, the union hires day laborers to strike on their behalf.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:01 pm
As ever, Dr J, you are a perceptive fellow. When I became so enraged that it required an elevator ride to do some freelance union busting, the sign-holding segment did not appear to be part of the “skilled worker” class.
June 1st, 2006 at 6:24 am
They typically use homeless people. So, one way to think about it is that it’s a few bucks and a couple of hot meals for somebody who sleeps on a bench somewhere.
The noise of the chanting can be something, though.
June 1st, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Didn’t mean to imply that I have anything against anyone making a few bucks. I just think it’s cynical of the union.
June 1st, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Yeah, another way to look at it is that they are making me crazy. A liberal conundrum. I feel the same way about these guys as I do when I see a shoe shine guy. On the one hand I’m not going to demean both of us by having someone else shine my shoes and scrape the dog poop off the bottom. On the other hand, if no one gets their shoes shined, this poor chump makes no dough. If it weren’t for that sumbitch Reagan, both would have high paying IT jobs.
June 1st, 2006 at 7:03 pm
It is cynical of the union, and I didn’t mean to cast no aspersions on nobody. I find it also to be counterproductive because the very people they should be getting sympathy from wind up wound up from the noise.
Say, speaking of Ronnie Rayguns, isn’t about time somebody threw a few daggers at his memory? I wish somebody would write about the Reagan Administration’s cynical decision to turn the crazies out of the mental hospitals, a move that created the homelessness problem we live with to this day.
June 1st, 2006 at 9:18 pm
What do we want?
Carpentry!
When do we want it?
Now!
June 1st, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Herman, you are forgetting that as an American it is your obligation, nay, sacred duty, to assert at every opportunity that Reagan was the greatest American who ever lived - despite all evidence to the contrary. Get with the program. The name of this site was originally going to be called TheRonaldReaganNationalBlogAboutBooks.Com, but the name was already taken.
June 2nd, 2006 at 8:24 am
I’m tugging my forelock and looking around for my place now, sir.
August 29th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
[...] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution returned to fertile ground this past weekend, electing to mock children on Page 1. To be fair, they are choosing to belittle both jocks and nerds. No kid is safe from the comedy gold mine that is the AJC. If you can’t read the poorly reproduced headline, it says, “There’s no crying is baseball.” Nice. This kid’s crime was getting emotional in the Little League World Series, where his team from Columbus, GA had been kicking ass on their way to winning the LLWS. Like the word nerds, this poor kid gets an extra helping of grief at school, compliments of the friendly community paper. Front page news. [...]