50. Mike the Tiger can’t be fed in public because of “security reasons.”
49. LeBron James is the next Michael Jordan.
48. Twitter is evil.
47. iPhones are worse.
46. Smart phones were not made for smart people.
45. Talent isn’t skin deep. Yes, this one’s about Susan Boyle, the British singing sensation that looks like the offspring of Joan Rivers and Austin Powers.
44. It’s tough to talk when you’re teabagging.
43. Michelle Obama is — and should be — the hottest woman on the planet.
42. Short shorts with words displayed on the rear end will never go away.
41. Rap music is dying. Case in point: the new hit song, “Do the Ricky Bobby.”
40. Felons do the best work, as evidenced by their tireless efforts on Student Government’s Class Gift project.
39. Members of SG don’t realize how little they matter or how pretentious they are.
38. It’s tough to get to “The Next Level” when you’re at the bottom of the top tier. It’s even tougher to do “More” with budget cuts.
37. Crying gets you nowhere.
36. Hannah Montana is to America what hepatitis is to the third world. It’s curable and life would be better without it.
35. I’m kind of a jerk.
34. The Octomom is getting exactly what she wants in coverage of her lack of parental skill.
33. Sarah Palin thought about getting what she would outlaw across the country.
32. There’s no difference between Sarah Palin and the Octomom, only California isn’t dumb enough to elect Octomom governor.
31. “Scrubs” is dead.
30. “The Office” is dying.
29. For a hint into the stupidity of America, tune into any matchmaking series on VH1.
28. Jon Stewart is a better journalist than Sean Hannity.
27. Stephen Colbert, the current comedian, is a better journalist than Glenn Beck, the former comedian.
26. Rachel Maddow might singlehandedly save the value of cable news.
25. Chancellor Michael Martin looks more like the Monopoly Man than former Chancellor Sean O’Keefe.
24. Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t have a filter between what he thinks and what he says.
23. Neither does Rush Limbaugh.
22. Neither does Bill O’Reilly.
21. The Twilight series will destroy humankind before global warming ever melts us.
20. If you lived in Somalia, you’d be a pirate too.
19. Navy Seals are amazing.
18. If Al-Qaeda were smart, they would recruit geese.
17. America is only No. 1 in obesity and imprisonment.
16. Friedrich Nietzsche was right.
15. Martin Heidegger was dead wrong.
14. Joel Osteen missed the point.
13. The correct debate about torture is not whether those techniques worked, it’s whether those techniques were torture.
12. Ask the Japanese we executed after they waterboarded our troops in World War II.
11. None of us know anything, but we all share the same capacity to learn.
10. The truly wise questions. The truly dumb assumes.
9. Liquor before beer, never fear. Beer before liquor, never been sicker. Marijuana at all, you’re going to jail.
8. Bobby Jindal is running for president in 2012.
7. I’m not voting for him.
6. Neither is the rest of the country after his Mr. Rogers impression.
5. Capitalism is more dangerous than socialism.
4. Greed in a free society is more dangerous than piracy.
3. Taking a semester off from doing something you love to refocus study habits pays off in the end.
2. Taking a year and a half off school to refocus after tragedy pays off a year and a half after returning.
1. Fear the hat.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Fifty more lessons learned throughout this year
Labels: Fox News, LSU, Rap, Republican Party, Student Government, Television, Twitter
Sunday, February 8, 2009
It doesn't just work with any old black guy, GOP
Black Republican.
Two words seemingly as antithetical as “civil war” or “Christian scientist” now head the Republican Party, as Michael Steele was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee on Jan. 30.
Steele’s rise to national prominence began as the chairman of the Republican Party of Maryland. He was chosen to run for lieutenant governor by then-Rep. Robert Ehrlich against incumbent Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Townsend’s candidacy was tainted by news of then-Gov. Parris Glendening’s involvement in a marital scandal and a very large budget deficit.
After winning the election, Lt. Gov. Steele then campaigned for Maryland’s Senate seat in 2006, only to be defeated by Ben Cardin in a very tough year for Republicans.
After spending time on the Fox News circuit — in which he guest-hosted a couple of times for Sean Hannity on “Hannity and Colmes” — he emerged as the RNC Chair, defeating Katon Dawson, a segregationist and a previous member of a whites-only country club.
It took Republicans five hours and six ballots to choose between a black man and a segregationist.
Maybe this is a new party.
In his acceptance speech, he pledged to “bring this party to every corner, every board room, every neighborhood, every community, and we’re going to say to friend and foe alike, we want you to be a part of us, we want you to work with us.
“And for those of you who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over.”
Last time I checked, Democrats control both chambers of Congress as well as the executive branch.
One has to first pick their teeth up from off the ground and dust themselves off before they have time to knock anyone over.
Steele’s selection only magnifies the many problems the Republican Party has with recruiting and maintaining a minority base.
The GOP’s problems were exposed at last year’s convention, when the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reported only 36 of the 2,380 Republican delegates were black, making it the most overwhelmingly white Republican Convention since the Joint Center began tracking diversity at conventions more than 40 years ago.
It’s no wonder President Barack Obama won 95 percent of the black vote in the 2008 election.
But the GOP continues to preach its long-standing commitment to diversity, continually citing themselves as “The Party of Lincoln.”
First off, a Lincoln Republican is more similar to an Obama Democrat than, say, a Reagan Republican.
Secondly, the Democrats and Republicans virtually changed ideologically in the 1930s and 40s, partly because of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and a new era of liberalism within the Democratic Party.
In short, the Republicans ran out of good ideas.
While Obama campaigned under a 50-state strategy while seeing through idiotic ploys on the part of Republicans to bait the Democrats into saying something stupid — including John McCain’s idea for a “gas-tax holiday,” which Hillary Clinton fell for, hook, line and sinker — Steele was busy inventing the chant “Drill, baby, drill!”
Loosely stolen from the black power chant “Burn, baby, burn,” Steele invented the chant about offshore drilling — even though most experts agree drilling off our coastline will generate little to no impact for at least 30 years — and it became the beacon by which Republicans burned themselves on their way to an electoral embarrassment.
Steele’s election displays backwards thinking under which Republicans operate. Instead of good ideas, they yield to their worst instincts.
Republicans don’t need black leaders. They need actual leaders.
Originally published in The Daily Reveille...
Labels: Fox News, Michael Steele, Race, Republican Party
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The YouTube Chronicles, VII
Labels: Fox News
The YouTube Chronicles, V
Why is it even news?
Labels: Fox News
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The YouTube Chronicles, II
Honestly, watch these two videos and judge for yourself.
Fox News is racist. Enough said.
Nas & ColorOfChange.org Give 620,000 Petitions to Fox News
John Gibson's Christine Reports from the Nas Fox Protest
Labels: Color of Change.org, Fox News, John Gibson, Nas
The YouTube Chronicles
The point I tried to prove: Fox News is racist.
The proof: Here. Enjoy.
YOU MADDD!
Cam'Ron & Damon Dash vs. Bill O'Reilly & Philadelphia Elementary School Principal
Labels: Bill O'Reilly, Cam'Ron, Damon Dash, Fox News, Rap
