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This is very interesting to me. The site touts:
Nice. As a registered Independent, a bit more conservative than liberal, my obvious choice lies in a Republican candidate. The Dems don’t have any, in my opinion, good choices for rep’n the country for the next 4 years.
Consider this a continuation of the last post, as I don’t feel like using the edit feature to add on to it.Which I guess, technically, doesn’t make it a marathon blog but… the spirit of the idea is still there and that’s all that matters. Right? Right. Let’s do it! Quick hit about these Lipitor commercials, in which the creator of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart is on record supporting the medication Lipitor, a prescription used to lower cholesterol. Really? You’re gonna trust a guy who created a heart for you to use when your heart fails about cholesterol? I mean, the guy’s obviously a great doctor, and I’m sure the medication works. But that the more you see the commercial and think about what’s going on, it’s just laughable. I can’t even think of a proper simile to make a joke about it (i.e., “” was what I had in mind). It baffles me. Whatever, commercials don’t make sense these days. Regarding the city where my sister was born: Apparently, someone tried to deposit a fake $1,000,000 bill in a bank in Aiken, South Carolina today or yesterday. It doesn’t even matter when it was. I don’t really care. This is just brilliant… In fact, I don’t even have to make a joke, because it just writes itself. People like this make being a smart ass blog writer easy. Reporting on Bill Simmons’ “marathon chat” I talked about in the first post: Going off without a hitch so far, minus the issues with the font of the chatter’s questions being formatted as black font and clashing with the absolutely ridiculous background (which fades top-to-bottom from red to black. It’s a melting clock away from being something out of Van Gogh’s nightmares). Even posted a quick question about the Magic under my all-time favorite pseudonym “Danny Salamander” asking about the Orlando Magic’s success so far this season and the grossly overpaid Rashard Lewis (I would link to his salary, but it’s not public yet. It’s about $120 million over six years, which is more than I’ve got on me right now). The SG stated that he had changed his tune on the Magic since the preseason (”they’re really good”), but that still “doesn’t excuse them from overpaying Lewis by $50 million”. Agreed, Simmons, agreed. Clayton’s Fantasy Football Update: More on Aiken, South Carolina criminal masterminds: My sister tells me that once someone robbed a bank with a pitchfork, was successful, went to Wendy’s for lunch afterwards (!?), and was promptly swarmed by officers before he could even sink into his classic double cheeseburger. Who does that? Imagine the cell phone call on the way to Wendy’s. Bill Simmons’ marathon chat today was pretty successful. He went for a grand total of seven hours and four minutes, which is phenomenal by all accounts, especially since the last 3 hours unraveled faster than the last 30 minutes of Wedding Crashers. Cheers to the Sports Guy and those people at the V Foundation for Cancer Research. My marathon blog pales in comparison. Let’s continue! Interesting new musician: A few days ago, I got a message from a Progressive Rock band named Torman Maxt. They’re pretty solid, but you’ll only dig them as much as I do if you’re a Prog Rock fan or atheist/agnostic (quickly peruse the lyrics to the songs they’ve featured on their MySpace and you’ll see why that is). If you’re either of those, or both (as is often the case), then go check them out. Definitely worth a listen. Watched the Republican Party CNN/YouTube Debate tonight and was once again affirmed that Ron Paul is the only candidate I can agree with completely. I did enjoy that McCain took some shots at him– it could be good for publicity since the media seems dead set against letting RP get any face time. Ron Paul In 2008.
In the last Republican debate, the first question asked was what the Confederate flag symbolized to each candidate. A symbol of slavery? A political and social ideology? Historical icon? The easy answer, and the liberal one, is that it symbolized slavery and oppression. The far more historically accurate one is that the flag and the entire secession was a fit on the South’s part because of an economically bleak future and a socially divisive philosophy. Regionally, the South was very much headed to where it is today: fiscally secondary to the bustling northern markets. Slavery was its strongest and only crouch which abolition threatened. That’s not to say the slavetrading cream of the crop didn’t consider blacks inferior to whites, but motivation for fighting the Confederate States of America varied. Unionists had a number of reasons for refusing secession. First off, there was the question of how much power states should have versus the federal government, others saw slavery (not the rights of blacks, the grossly unfair treatment of them) as immoral and problematic to Manifest Destiny. The most little-known reason though, was that slavery made it harder for Americans to achieve the “American dream” of success. Slavemasters, that were already rich through the trade, became richer which made it harder for ambitious Americans to begin and succeed in the cotton industry.
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