| Winter 2003-04 |
I'm not a very religious guy, at least when it comes to the traditional religions of the world. Being a capitalist I worship the only thing really worth worshipping, MONEY. Because, in these times of racial strife, terrorism, class struggles, and such, it's important to be faithful to the one thing that really makes us different from one another. That being money, and how much you have. Because money isn't the root of all evil, it's the root of all that's good. Money makes people work harder. It makes them want things that they can't afford right now. But, with a little hard work, you can get money to buy the things that make you happy. It's that simple. So why not make money the one and only deity? I don't see why that shouldn't be. We already have "In God We Trust" on our money. How big of a stretch would it be to say that the God we trust is the money that proclaims that great statement? For me, and many others, this deification of our monetary system would be cutting out an element that most of us don't even believe in. We could throw away the bible, the tora, the koran, and all that jazz. They aren't needed anyways. No one really follows them anyway. Business, and the laws that govern business, should be the supreme law of the religion of money. Because, the business model is better at this morals thing than anything the religions of the world have made up. In buisness it's everyone for themselves. That's more like it. In buisness it's market forces that dictate actions. And, the good thing about that is that if you have enough money you can dictate market forces to lean to your way of thinking. Now isn't that a great idea? Why should we have to suffer with all these ideals that don't work in practice? Has the Golden Rule ever helped anyone succeed? No, of course not. All the Golden Rule has even done is create a bunch of simpletons that are altruistic, and work for the betterment of all mankind. Who the hell wants that? Not me. I only want to make my bank account better, and bigger. In closing, I'd like to extend an invitation to everyone out there who is tired of following those silly religions that talk about loving your neighbor, and looking out for your fellow man. All that is being some stupid pollyanna. Prey to the real God, the one you have in your wallet. I'm sure you'll be much happier. |
The best kind of news comes in little bite sized packages called sound bites, ya know. I don't need to know every detail of what's going on in the world. How does something, say, going on in Iraq affect me and my day to day life? I ask you, how does anything China does affect my life? Will an insightful report on things the President is doing going to affect the price of the hamburger I eat every day? I seriously doubt it. I don't read the paper much, I pretty much get all my news from TV. Entertainment Tonight, or Extra Extra, or something like that, tell me all I need to know. And really, what do I care if the a dividend tax goes up? I want to know if J.Lo and Ben are going to get married. That affects me much more than some stupid tax. It's all politics anyway. Nothing that appears on the newspaper affects me at all. Well, except what's in the entertainment page. That's what I really want to know about. I want to know about the movie I'm going to see this weekend. I'm going to see that great new movie that every critic says is a bomb. I don't listen to them. I don't even know why I read those article. They never get anything wrong. I mean, Gigli was a GREAT movie. It was way romantic, and really hit me somewhere. I don't like movies like Schindler's List, and such. Those movies are way too serious. Besides, something like that would never happen in real life. How could it? So I hear that that new starlet is getting involved with an older man. I can't imagine those two together, but there they were on the front page of the Post. You know how they play those things off, by saying that they're doing a movie together and stuff. Come on, you know there's constant hooking up on movie sets. It's part of what they do. I read that that woman from the movie everyone hated had some sort of botox thing injected into her face to make her look younger. I'll tell you something, she didn't get it done before the movie was shot. She looked so old. I remember her as the real hot chick in that movie about the bank heist. Remember how good she looked in that? I read that after seeing her, the director asked the writer to put her character in more scenes. Even if it didn't make sense for her character to be there. It didn't matter, he wanted her in every scene. And you know what? It worked. The movie was so great because she was constantly running around making strange comments. Although, now that I think about it, I wonder if the writer didn't write her those stupid lines in order to make her look more stupid. I wonder. |
| Important News |
I, for one, am glad that some computer picks who is going to be the college football champion. It takes the element of surprise out of the whole college football thing. I don't like surprises. I rather have the reliability of a computer to figure out what team is the best team in the college football ranks.
Computers, unlike people, are flawless. They don't make mistakes, and when they say that a team is the best team in the nation, you better believe it. They don't have a bias towards any teams. They just look at the numbers, and use their advanced formulas, to determine which teams will meet for the 'championship' game. It's a brilliant system, and a brilliant idea.
This whole thing about playoffs is silly. In a playoff scenario anything can happen. The number one ranked team isn't always the one that wins in a playoff scenario. It's always the better team, whatever that means. Besides, what if the number one team has an off night? Then what? They're eliminated from the playoffs, and we're left with what's left. Teams that aren't ranked number one. And what does that get you?
To me a championship team that's determined by playoffs really isn't the best team. Computers, and formulas, should determine which team really is the best, and the champion. Because, how many times has your favorite team ended the regular season with the best record, only to lose in the first or second round of the playoffs? I know it's happened to me a few times. Like in pro basketball. The teams with the best records in the regular season has won the title only 2 times in the last six years. So I ask you, which team is the real NBA champion? The team that won the most games, or the one that won the championship series? See, if it was up to a computer it would be very likely that the teams that won those four championships wouldn't have even been in the finals, let alone win them.
All I'm saying is that playoffs are unreliable. Computers are the way to go, which is why I like the college football way of picking a national champion. Who needs the drama of the playoffs? That sort of drama is just another name for uncertainty.
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