On Vacations, John Green, and Bill Cosby
Geez, you guys are so demanding. "Post all the time or
we won't visit your blog!" you say. And the statistics are proving you
right. But hey, I have a life too. I think. Anyway, I'm trying to have a life.
The evidence of that trying is presented to the world court today. A vacation.
Sort of. It's with the in-laws, and as someone (I can't remember who) once
said, "You should be close to your in-laws, but not too close."
Anyway, I'll be out of pocket, which is a really strange
saying because if I was in your pocket that would be downright creepy. Headed to the beach, I am. A couple of
thoughts before I leave.
John Green is okay. He's the guy that wrote The Fault in our
Stars. A story about two, cancer-ridden teens who fall in love. It's young
adult fiction, which as Stephen Colbert says, "Is fiction that people
actually read." The story isn't my cup of tea, but Green comes across as
both
genuine and genuinely funny.
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| Annoying? No, our foreign policy is annoying. This is merely amusing |
I'm sick of stupid Bill Cosby diatribes. This is the worse.(Go read it.)
Does he make a couple of good points? Sure, but he also grossly exaggerates others. Frankly, I don't have a problem with folks naming their kids
however they want. I don't have a problem with backwards ball caps, droopy
drawers, or showing your boxers. When I was a kid I wore bell bottoms with an
American flag sewed on them. I went on to serve 23 years in the Navy. I look back on the bell-bottom days and take it for what it was, a phase. I guess
that somewhere there are well-paid football players who can't read. For every
one like that there are probably ten that went back to college to finish their degrees. In fact, if Cosby would check his stats, college athletes have a
higher graduation rate than non-athletes. Stupid people can't memorize NFL
playbooks. Don't know what B-Ball player he's referring to, no doubt there is
someone like that, but Dwayne Wade, LeBron, and Chris Bosh are very well
spoken. And something like 15-20% of the players are from Europe .
All this is wisdom because it comes from a comedian?
I'm out.
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