Happy 9th Birthday, Google.
Providing food to an information starved world.
Roger Freberg
Katie Couric is just sad
Over the years, I have wondered if America — by this I mean ‘we’ — would ever tire of the antics of Katie Couric.
Recently, Katie decided to share with us her wisdom on Iraq, the war and the Iranian Dictator. Here is a collection of some of her wit and disdain from her interview:
“The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States …”
So, Katie, what are you trying to say? Have you found a home on an independent island somewhere?
Couric referenced comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday’s “The Charlie Rose Show,” and said she actually agreed with Ahmadinejad on one point. “Oftentimes Westerners don’t really understand fully the values of this particular culture,” said Couric. “And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.”
Agreeing with Ahmadinejad on anything shows how guliable you are… fortunately ‘we’ are no longer amused.
Roger Freberg
Cal Poly learning censorship by doing
Here’s a small plug for Fire.Org. These are the wonderful guys & gals who run around the country defending students, faculty and an assortment of other nice folks from the whims and callousness — I say “capriciousness” — of university bureaucrats. They have offered up their own evaluations of universities across our great land. Do you know where your college stands? CHECK it out! Each analysis comes with links to media coverage.
Did you that in some universities you can not even discuss whether or not any differences exist between the sexes … even in an academic setting? If you dare, then the full force of the university can land on you?
Once some enterprising student takes them to court, these neanderthal regulations will fall, …. but until then, they will act as a law unto themselves. Sensoring speech is but the tip of the authoritarian iceberg in a lot of these schools… but it is their key stone and must be removed.
Roger Freberg
Kudos to the University of Tennessee
O.J. Simpson was a BRUIN! got proof!
I know it is hard to believe… but as this picture clearly indicates… and pictures don’t lie… O.J. Simpson was really a Bruin all along! Wouldn’t you know it was those dastardly Bruins who would do anything they could to besmerch the Good Trojan Name? How Low can you go?
“UCLA” Simpson seems to have come into the news with more problems. The latest is a claim by his lawyers that there is no evidence against O.J. Of course, I have been wrong before… I THOUGHT he was guilty the last time.
Another “PR Nightmare” ( as my daughter Karen would say) is Sally Field. Just as they thought it was safe to give her another award… Sally uses the mike to confirm that she is one step closer to a full time rubber room…. and trotted out the worn feminist rhetoric:
“Let’s face it. If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.”
As for me, I will always remember Sally as the sweet nun who brought more sunshine into the lives of others than she was able to bring to her own… and O.J. as one of the greatest halfbacks of all time … but a street thug and no more. I still think he was a Bruin plant.
Roger Freberg
9-11
“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments.
Their joy is self-conquest.
Difficult tasks are a privilege to them, to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche