Well I'm tired after a long day of holiday shopping (don't worry, I managed to get a little something for myself ... can't wait to crack into that fresh copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 ... one of my all-time favorite game series). So here are a few quick thoughts on random topics:
- Wow what an NBA game tonight between the Rockets and Spurs! T-Mac with 13 points in 45 seconds to win the game! This is a really weird NBA season with the Detroit-Indiana brawl shaking up the east and Shaq's Miami move changing the balance of power in the west. I'm still hoping Indiana can win one for Reggie Miller (who at age 38, had 32 points in his first game back from a broken hand the other night), but I wish they had a better cast of characters on that team than Ron "buy my album" Artest and the over-hyped and underachieving Jermaine O'Neil. Bring back Rick Smits ...
- One key song I omitted from my top 100 list was probably Bryan Adam's Summer of 69. Discuss.
- Nice ending for tonight's OC. So far this season has had too much wink-wink, self-referential humor in an attempt to lighten the mood, but after an okay, too-sappy-for my tastes episode, that ending comes along and delivers a classic twist: "Mom? What are you doing here?"
- Lost last night was pretty intense, overall a very good episode. But please tell me this is going somewhere.
- I join my brother in being very excited for the new season of 24. Those promos on FOX are doing a great job of building up the hype. Just hearing those familiar countdown sounds is enough to get ya ready for some Jack Bauer-delivered ass-kicking.
- Finally, so I'm watching some Scarburough Country on MSNBC and I see Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan, as usual, devouring Al Franken and some other whimpering token liberal. OK, you think there's a liberal media? Well it's a rare thing to see one of the talking-heads news shows feature a liberal or moderate voice who can get his or her point across in the face of the unrelenting, dogma-spewing conservative loudmouths. It's ridiculous, and I don't understand why Democrats don't realize that time and time again they are being suckered into a situation where they come out looking like insecure kids. So liberals, when you go on a talk show, try doing at least some of the following:
- stick to the point at hand. trying to go back to an earlier point just makes it look like you're dodging the question.
- don't use humor when you're trying to make a serious point, it's not conducive to fast-paced debates where every word counts. while ann coulter is listing off talking points a mile a minute, al franken is telling a long, pointless, joke that goes nowhere.
- don't preface your words by attacking your opponent. save that for the conservatives, and don't let the discussion become personal unless they make it so.
- don't whine! people like pat buchanan and joe scarburough come off as authoritative because they keep a calm if forceful demeanor.
- keep it moderate - tonight some liberal nut was going off about how mel gibson's Passion was offensive since Jesus wasn't shown as semetic / Arabic. Please, is this going to win an argument about the movie's merits? Address the big issues, not some minor talking point that only makes you look like more of a nutjob.
I don't know if they purposely recruit these weak-azz liberals for these conservative-dominated shows or if they just happen to be that way (well, obviously when they get LAME, whiny liberal celebs like Janine Garafalo or Kathy Griffin, they're TRYING to make the liberals look like jokes), but come on, the Democratics are supposed to be the party of the common man, so I hope that some of these talking heads will realize what they are representing before they go on a Hannity and Colmes or Scarborough Country or whatever and help ensure that we'll get an even longer Republican reign.
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