Crowning Moment of Awesome- 08/09/2012

I don't know the song, I don't know the story- but damn, is this beautfiul.

Crowning Moment of Awesome- 08/08/2012

Reason #412 why CHIKARA is my favorite wrestling federation to watch:

Crowning Moment of Awesome- 08/07/2012

Two great tastes that taste great together- rap battles and economic legends:

Crowning Moment of Awesome- 08/06/2012

TV Tropes has a subsection known as the Crowning Moment of Awesome- basically the moment in the book, tv show, movie, comic, etc that makes the reader want to stand up and cheer 'YES'.

We need more of those.  Life's been stressful lately.  Actually, life is always stressful.  But it sure as heck feels harsher than normal. 

And there's a lot of great moments out there, in all forms of media.  And youtube is a wonderful library of holding a bunch of those moments. 

So here's a place to showcase some of them.  Enjoy today's.

See, here's the thing about Americans from the United States: We really, really HATE to be told what to do.

We revel in our Independence. In D&D Terms, we're Chaotic Good (OK, bordering on Chaotic Neutral). We make fun of our leaders- doesn't matter what party they come from. Every night, you can see comedians tearing the very people we elected to run the nation apart. Hell- the whole country started when the thirteen colonies flipped King George the middle finger.

Now, you need to keep that in mind when we're talking about Chick-Fil-A.

Now, the owners of Chick-Fil-A is against gay marriage, and that's riling people up (for some reason, those same people weren't upset when Barack Obama was against gay marriage- but I'm going off on a tangent). So people started a boycott. Great. Fantastic. It's the Free Market in action- people expressing their opinions with their dollars. It's beautiful- I'm ready to cry.

But then people went overboard. Mayors in places like Chicago and San Francisco decided that it wasn't enough to boycott, that they were going to use the power of their offices to throw the evil and vile Chick-Fil-A out of their town and make sure such a horrific business never operated in their town.

In other words, the mayors were going to tell their citizens what they could eat.

Now, remember what I said about Americans hating being told what they could do? Well, Chick-Fil-A is getting a lot of business today.

As for me? I'm for gay marriage. I like Chick-Fil-A's food, though it's a little too expensive for my tastes. And if someone tries to ban Chick-Fil-A from Cleveland, I'm eating there for a week straight.

Breaking Bad and Good TV

The fifth season of Breaking Bad premiers tonight.  I haven't seen an episode, but I've heard many good things about the show.


I'm tempted to give the show a chance, but lately I've been avoiding most fictional tv shows like the plague.  Non-fiction shows- Chopped, American Restoration,  even reality TV shows like Survivor- those I can watch all day long.  But the shows people actually try to write- the track record hasn't been good, for two main reasons: 


1)  Tired of being burnt.  The ending of "The Sopranos" make me feel like I wasted my time bothering to watch to show.  "BSG", "Lost", "Heroes"- all shows that started out with so much promise that ended up turning into crap.  It's like the writers spent all of their knowledge and ability on the first dozen shows, then shrugged their shoulders and said "we'll wing it from here."  And did a poor job of it.


2)  Tired of being depressed.  "Dexter", "Oz"- so many "quality" shows always make me feel like the world is an ugly, depressing dystopia.  I feel like I want to wash my brain with bleach because the reality these shows present is so awful.


Everyone has a limit of how much ugliness they can watch, and I hit my limit years ago.  It's why I haven't bothered with "Game of Thrones".  Or "Breaking Bad."  


I'm sure they are well-made shows.  I'm just not sure that these are shows I want to watch.

Memo to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

To:    members@vastrightwingconspiracy.con
From: mightybastard@vastrightwingconspiracy.com (membership ID:  TK-421)
Password:  0bama15aween1e


Folks,

I think we're missing a huge opportunity here.  Single families are two to six times more likely to be poor than married families.     This makes sense- married families are more stable, two parents are better for raising children than one, etc.

In addition, married voters favor voting for Romney over Obama by 13%.  This isn't a fluke- married voters favored McCain in 2008, while single voters favored Obama.  It's a trend, and one we should be taking notice of.

So- remind me why we're against gay marriage?

The trend's obvious- the more stable marriages, the better society is, the fewer people stay in poverty, and the more they come to their senses and vote Conservative.

This is a win-win situation.  Let's not botch this one up.