Entertainment & Sports: July 2009 Archives
Despite the poor camera angle (intentionally chosen by the local Fox affiliate, no doubt) the pitch was a ball.
(HT: Gateway Pundit.)
This is my kind of fishing.
Lots of people are wondering about the posthumous glorification of Michael Jackson by a host of people who would never let their children spend the night at his house, but the explanation is simple: America is Michael Jackson.
- We live the lavish lifestyle of the rich, but we're horribly in debt.
- Our lives are run by yes-men parasites who build up our egos while sucking us dry.
- We've got no moral bearings and prefer a twisted pop-culture fantasyland over reality.
- We live off the glories of our past but fail to recognize that we can never recapture if until we purge ourselves of the previously mentioned maladies.
We glorify Michael Jackson to comfort ourselves.
Ten Ton Hammer has a great discussion of progression via levels and skills in MMORPGs, including a discussion of whether these two paradigms will ever be replaced with something new.
Michael Jackson is being buried without his brain, which is being held back for further examination into the cause of death. Fine. But is it necessary to end the article with this bit of trivia?
- MICHAEL Jackson starred as the Scarecrow in The Wiz, the 1978 musical version of The Wizard of Oz – playing the character without a brain opposite Diana Ross as Dorothy.
