1. Matt Holliday dropped a straight-forward fly, and as a result of that one botch, St. Louis will almost certainly not make it to the pennant game. It was hard for the millionaire entertainer to even feign very much remorse. “It’s not like I didn’t try.” “These things happen.” “We can still come back.” Later this winter, I’m sure he’ll be “nursing his wounds” over mint julep somewhere in the Caribbean.
Somehow, there needs to be some true loss when these millionaires lose their concentration — perhaps while thinking about changing travel agents or some such — and botch easy plays. It does seem like a good argument for some notion of just wage.
When our Führer arises, he will have his work cut out, even in sports.
2. That Bam-bam got the Nobel Prize says nothing about him. There is nothing to say about him in respect to “peace.” Standing around like Alfred E. Neuman with a shrug and a “what, me worry?” in respect to our ongoing, endless wars for Israel is hardly world-class peace prize material.
It does say something about the Committee, and their outlook. Perhaps the prize is supposed to memorialize the end of White America. Or, perhaps rushing to give Yomama the prize not even one year into his reign suggests they worry it might be too late to do so next year.
hi Tim,
The Libs need Obama to succeed even when he does not. They will make him succeed, he is the poster child of affirmative action in motion. All things are in the positive for his efforts, even when he fails, it will be well he tried, but its so hard for him to overcome years of…in this short amount of time. Just his very existence shows how well he is doing, even when he does nothing. More than likely, if given the chance , by the time he is done they will want to remove Mt Rushmore multi- president faces to put just his there, maybe leave Rosevelt..its all about surface what looks to be promising not on true substance what actually gets done..
s.e. hoffmeister
When Holliday came up to bat the first time in game 3, at home, in which the Cards lost the game and the season, all due to his narcissistic absent-mindedness in game 2, guess what the fans in St Louis did:
a. chanted, “give us a million back”
b. booed
c. chanted, “one more time and you’re out”
d. gave him a standing-O
If you know how self-indulgent and feminized the American public has become, the choice will be obvious. This is the same public that in its high-brow form starts clapping at the opera the minute the curtain twitches to go down. They don’t want to enjoy the music to the very last note. Above all, they want the performers to feel good about themselves. They want the performers to feel good about themselves because that makes them feel good about themselves. Everyone should feel good, no matter what.
This is what we have become as a people.
I guess there is a third option for the Nobel Committee, and a most hopeful one. Perhaps they gave him the award in hopes that the irony of starting another war with such a prize in hand might cause him to resist the pressure from his “handlers” to start a war with Iran?