Not that you asked, but...

Good God Almighty, bro, are you still taking those drugs I warned you about? Yack, yack, yack, and not a lot worth reading. Here's an example: "are often the result of beginning the coverage of an event or starting a story with a pre-conceived notion of the narrative." Last summer I listened to about two hours worth of uncut Ed Murrow broadcasts from London during WWII. Funny thing about Murrow, he always started his coverage with a pre-conceived notion that the Nazis were bad guys. You going to lump him in with your "so-called professional journalists?????"
I find it ironic that you would take to task those who misuse the English language while at the same time misusing it yourself! You call yourself an openminded individual, but look at everything through the colored glasses of a conservative, right-wing Republican. What a laugh!
Here's a news flash for you: The human brain was created and/or evolved to deal with the life encountered by humans of 100,000-2 million years ago. How in the heck is it supposed to keep pace with the advancement thrust upon it today???? Can you imagine a human of even 2000 years ago successfully integrating into and dealing with out society today? The amazing thing is that ANY of us cope, ANY of us survive. That may be the greatest argument in favor of creationism there is. How else do you explain our ability to adapt as fast as the technology around us?
Bush is an idiot. He's not intentionally stupid, it just comes naturally. He's lost the trust of the people and I just wish the election was this November instead of next. Who knows how much more damage he can do to this country between now and then? And people thought Nixon was bad. At least Nixon was smart. Paranoid, sure, but smart. Bush is just clueless.
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Does anyone but me find it humorous that the author of a blog would scold us about not listening? (I was going to use the word harrange, but I don't know how to spell it and Blogman would have pointed that out as an indication that my argument was spurious. Is that how you spell spurious?)
October baseball is the best. The national pasttime is in fact. This year, all the games in the regular season ended up on Direct TV and I couldn't watch my beloved Astros go down the tube one more time. Oh, well. I wanted to see Cleveland do to the series, but once again, oh, well.
All of this is, of course, in good fun. I don't get out here very often anymore and was feeling a bit truculent tonight. Cosell once accuse Ali of being truculent. Ali said, "If that's good, then that's me."
Okay, they say my comments are limited to 2000 characters. I'll just have to split it in half.

Does anyone but me find it humorous that the author of a blog would scold us about not listening? (I was going to use the word harrange, but I don't know how to spell it and Blogman would have pointed that out as an indication that my argument was spurious. Is that how you spell spurious?)

October baseball is the best. The national pasttime is in fact. This year, all the games in the regular season ended up on Direct TV and I couldn't watch my beloved Astros go down the tube one more time. Oh, well. I wanted to see Cleveland do to the series, but once again, oh, well.

All of this is, of course, in good fun. I don't get out here very often anymore and was feeling a bit truculent tonight. Cosell once accuse Ali of being truculent. Ali said, "If that's good, then that's me."

Okay, they say my comments are limited to 2000 characters. I'll just have to split it in half.

I want all of you out there reading to know that 99% of my response was just pulling my brother's leg. I think I went a little overboard and didn't intend to end up appearing as vituperative as I did. I'm glad Slim's doing this and I really do respect his opinions. It's just so hard for me to agree with him in public, even when I do in private! Got to give him a little s___ now and then, whether he deserves it or not!

The Ever Friendly,

Montana Fats