tj:
~ How To Care Less (Or Not): An Illustrative Chart ~
A lovely chart by girl-detective.
tj:
Adam Baldwin sings The Hero of Canton.
Periodic Reminder: if you haven’t watched Firefly, well, then I feel bad for you.
UCD Davis. Non-violent protesters. Pepper spray.
Watch this and feel sick.
And you can argue in semantic circles all day long with me about what constitutes a non-violent protest, about obstruction of the police or the right to assemble or what the occupy movement does or does not stand for.
This. This is pretty god damn awful.
It wasn’t too many years ago that people were calling the young adults of today complacent and apathetic. They railed against them for those attributes. And here they are, being the opposite of complacent and apathetic and now those same people are calling them out for actually standing up for the things they believe in, for wanting to fight for the chance to turn this country around.
They are out there. They are doing something. They are voicing their opinions, standing up for their beliefs, taking action instead of sitting around complaining about shit but doing anything to effect change. They are trying to make a difference.
Isn’t that part of what America is all about? Where would we be without the Boston Tea Party? What if that turning point in a growing revolution wasn’t allowed to happen?
Now we’re pepper spraying peaceful protesters. Now we’re barring the press from witnessing police crackdowns on those protesters. Now we have police covering up their badges.
I watch this video and I can almost hear this cop thinking “This is what you get when you mess with us.”
Come on, America. We’re better than this.
Aren’t we?
Ian’s World Cup Pro Tips #1
Sound like a knowledgeable pundit when referring to the German football team by describing their playing style as “precise” and “clinical”.
This is an old video from a British Comedy show. Not about the BP oil disaster yet still relevant to it, also it makes me laugh like a maniac.
This just never gets old!
What the hell do I know about soccer? Oh, I’m sorry. FOOTBALL. Futbol? Honestly, I don’t know much except that every four years I pretend to have this great interest in it and I go all World Cup crazy. That is, until America gets its collective ass handed to it and I go back to watching baseball…
I’m seriously looking forward to England being awesome right up until they throw it all away. As long as they hand a loss to the U.S.A team I will be happy. I want to be able to say things like;
“That’s what happens when America enters a team into a world tournament that teams from other countries actually play in.”
“We only won because the game didn’t stop every ten seconds so they could take a breath.”
“How did you enjoy the game centered around the ball actually being controlled using the foot?”
I feel I can be that obnoxious because once both teams are out, we can all then move on and be united in cheering for whatever teams play against France and Argentina.
Of course, if England lose to the U.S.A I will be unavailable for comment.
For a long, long time.
