ZOGAR
Rantings of An Insane Curmudgeon
OMG Sarah Palin is quitting being the governor of Alaska! That means!!!!!
Absolutely fucking nothing to anyone who doesn't live in Alaska. In a petty, mean way I wanna say "Well, score 1 point for David Letterman", but really, it's not even 1 for him. None of us are affected by this. Except maybe for Fox News a little, who try to shoehorn some pretend debates inbetween the "Michael Jackson is still dead!" coverage, where they have one straw man ask "Isn't she a quitter now?" and all the rest of them get to yell "STFU! She's still an American hero, dammit!" at him.
Also, Stephen Colbert's take on Al Franken finally getting his senatorship (or is it senatorhood?) was great. I'm not bothering to look up a clip. You know how to use youtube, jerk.
Speaking of youtube, I couldn't make it all the way through![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
omer333's embedded clip on the evils of consumerism. Even if I'm inclined to agree with something there's really only a certain amount of over the top bias I can deal with before it makes me ill. Shocking numbers tops that list. With a bullet!
"80% of the Earth's forests are gone!!!!!"
.... uh huh. From when exactly? Pangea? Are trees from the last Ice Age when the Sahara wasn't a desert being counted here? Awww, and all that lumber is shown coming from your little cartoon of a scenic, ideal wilderness, with a stream and deer and a mountain in the background. Because timber companies never plant trees! They just look for more of that 20% left to utterly DESTROY. Forever! For bookshelves!
And I'll admit I am unreasonablly indifferent myself on this. Florida is pretty much swampland with a few nice beaches, so I don't particularly like nature, and I enjoy watching Swamp Loggers. Appeals to my love of the happy little forests aren't going to work. And the fact that you are trying to appeal to my love of happy little forests with a cartoon leads me to believe the whole slideshow is geared towards ruthlessly pushing a certain viewpoint, using skewed statistics to support it, over, say, presenting me with unbaised facts that might make me want to reevaluate my wasteful behavior and start buying glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard working people of wherever.
Fuck the cartoon deer.
And yeah, I know people are shortsighted and stupid enough that they won't even care until it starts getting hard to breathe and then they'll be OH SHIT! WE NEED TO SAVE TREES! but still, fuck the cartoon deer.
Final Off Topic Note: I ordered some WoW minis from the Core Set online yesterday. Make your time,vulpes. The Horde is coming. Your Alliance will be crushed. Not even Leeroy Jenkins will be able to save you. This is your doom.
Absolutely fucking nothing to anyone who doesn't live in Alaska. In a petty, mean way I wanna say "Well, score 1 point for David Letterman", but really, it's not even 1 for him. None of us are affected by this. Except maybe for Fox News a little, who try to shoehorn some pretend debates inbetween the "Michael Jackson is still dead!" coverage, where they have one straw man ask "Isn't she a quitter now?" and all the rest of them get to yell "STFU! She's still an American hero, dammit!" at him.
Also, Stephen Colbert's take on Al Franken finally getting his senatorship (or is it senatorhood?) was great. I'm not bothering to look up a clip. You know how to use youtube, jerk.
Speaking of youtube, I couldn't make it all the way through
omer333's embedded clip on the evils of consumerism. Even if I'm inclined to agree with something there's really only a certain amount of over the top bias I can deal with before it makes me ill. Shocking numbers tops that list. With a bullet!"80% of the Earth's forests are gone!!!!!"
.... uh huh. From when exactly? Pangea? Are trees from the last Ice Age when the Sahara wasn't a desert being counted here? Awww, and all that lumber is shown coming from your little cartoon of a scenic, ideal wilderness, with a stream and deer and a mountain in the background. Because timber companies never plant trees! They just look for more of that 20% left to utterly DESTROY. Forever! For bookshelves!
And I'll admit I am unreasonablly indifferent myself on this. Florida is pretty much swampland with a few nice beaches, so I don't particularly like nature, and I enjoy watching Swamp Loggers. Appeals to my love of the happy little forests aren't going to work. And the fact that you are trying to appeal to my love of happy little forests with a cartoon leads me to believe the whole slideshow is geared towards ruthlessly pushing a certain viewpoint, using skewed statistics to support it, over, say, presenting me with unbaised facts that might make me want to reevaluate my wasteful behavior and start buying glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard working people of wherever.
Fuck the cartoon deer.
And yeah, I know people are shortsighted and stupid enough that they won't even care until it starts getting hard to breathe and then they'll be OH SHIT! WE NEED TO SAVE TREES! but still, fuck the cartoon deer.
Final Off Topic Note: I ordered some WoW minis from the Core Set online yesterday. Make your time,
vulpes. The Horde is coming. Your Alliance will be crushed. Not even Leeroy Jenkins will be able to save you. This is your doom.