Month: February 2017

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No interest in Watching Superbowl…

Super Bowl 2017 Top Five Upsets Of All Time

First time in years I haven’t been interested.

For many years, I’ve settled in Superbowl Sunday with beer, junk food and watched, relaxing and enjoying the entertainment.

This year, zero interest. 

I’m not even sure why.

I’ve been wondering if it was all the controversy over standing (or not) for the National Anthem.

Or was it that last years commercials were boring and Politically Correct to the point that no-one remembered them? 

Or that the half-time show was largely forgettable. 

Last Years game doesn’t stand out in my mind either.

I’m wondering if it’s just that I’m tired of endless controversies.

What used to be a fun diversion, and entertaining escape for 4 hours has become mediocre in it’s conformity.

Rather than watch something that I used to really enjoy, and be sad that it’s not the fun it used to be, I’ll spare myself the sadness and read a book.

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Well, It’s not called Berzerkely for nothing…

My morning coffee has been cleaned up. 

There I was sipping my (Caution Coffee May be Hot) cup of morning Joe.

Innocently, I opened my browser and saw, without any trigger warning, that there was rioting at Berkeley. That might not have been much of a trigger, given the insanity of college campuses in the past few years…

What did make it surprising was that the protest at Berkeley, was essentially about shutting down free speech. 

Uh, if I recall correctly the free speech movement started at Berkeley!

Of course the morons protesting are too uneducated to realize irony. 

After cleaning up the coffee spill, I read on.

Supposedly, the riots started over a Milo Yiannopoulos appearance. SAY WHAT?!?!?!

This is a Gay man from England, a clever writer, a conservative leaning white speaker, with a penchant for bottoming for black men, he tends to speak from his heart and flys in the face of oppressive social justice “Group Think“. 

He’s the fucking poster child for freedom of speech!

He’s made the point again and again that Political Correctness and Social Justice Warriors are not interested in anything other than imposing morality codes that align with their view of the way things should be. He’s pointed out repeatedly that what the SJW and PC crowd doesn’t like they will destroy.

Apparently, not only is he right, but now the SJW / PC crowd is going out of the way to prove him right.

Yiannopoulos is a free speech advocate, a Trump supporter, and has made fairly well reasoned arguments opposing unfettered Islamic immigration. His immigration arguments are based in what he has seen in his homeland and Europe as a whole. 

After all as a gay man, he doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that mass immigration of people who culturally condone the rape of young boys, then turn around and stigmatize and kill gay people is a clear threat. Much more so than the likes of Trump or Pence. He’s also pointed out that people who culturally oppose and oppress women’s rights and often punish the rape victim instead of the rapist represents a huge step backwards in terms progress in developed nations.

I read somewhere something like; a society is only free, as long as everyone can speak their mind without fear of retribution or harm.

Based on the protest at Berkeley and other institutions of “Higher Learning” I wonder if freedom died and no-one noticed. It’s seeming a lot more like Orwell’s 1984, and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, with overtones of the fucking Inquisition than the country I grew up in.

Clearly as a redneck hick from one of the flyover states, I’m not educated enough to grasp the intellectual superiority of my “betters” in Berkeley.