Say Anything Blog

O.J. who?

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC

Well, yes, he has a point, but I doubt it’s getting to the right people.  Unfortunately, it only takes a few million viewers/readers/listeners to wreak this kind of havoc.  Hell, it takes only a couple of million regular viewers to make Bill O’Reilly the most viewed talking head in cable news.  So, let’s pretend that 10 times that amount are hungry for OJ/Brittany/Paris gossip.  That’s 20 million.  That’s only %6.67 (20M / 300M) of the population of the U.S.  And even if we generously factor for children at a third of the population, that’s still only %20 who want to watch this crap.  And let’s not forget that most of these cable news channels are viewed outside of the U.S. as well.

So, the point is, there may be a plurality or even a majority of Americans who are turned off by celebrity rumor mongering, but there are enough who watch that crap to overrule the larger audience.

I’ve always said, subscribers of People magazine should be disqualified from voting.

Yes I know, a largely pointless gesture… those people don’t get out and vote—they might miss Oprah.

[Feet make good soup!]

Take no offense to the following comment but they should of hung that nigger while they had the chance.

Don’t take this personally but that comment was dumb.

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC

Don’t take this personally but that comment was dumb.

Mike,

Huh???  How else would one take your criticism but personally?  Talk about irony!

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

B1...no other way I wouldn’t think. How would anyone not take offense at the previous comment?

Am I missing something?

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced if the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
Cicero, 55 BC