Wednesday, January 14, 2009
NFL playoffs
The playoffs have mirrored the regular season. 8-8 teams getting in; 10-6 teams going home. Only one team upheld its seed: Steelers. Cardinals were not supposed to win. Eagles were not supposed to win…what’s with all the birds? Anyway, I think it will come to mistakes in the NFC, and heroics in the AFC. The Cardinals and the Eagles both have the experience, the talent and the QB to beat the other team…who will make the least mistakes? That’s your winner. AFC? The Steelers are (yes, arguably) the flat out, look it up, better team. That means that either it will be the most boring game or the most exciting. Either the Steelers will systematically put away the Ravens, just as they did the Chargers; or, the Ravens will (and, honestly, no disrespect to a top-level team) pull something off and upset.
dogs love cheese
Dogs really love cheese, and it’s a little creepy. Descended from wolves, pack hunters, carnivores! Is that a slice of Kraft American? Hot damn! Aged dairy? Really? Hell, I like it, too.
Stroke
The Stroke
Films are…important. They are. They tell us who we are, they point out who we should be and they tantalize us with what we might become. They also stroke us to be damned. That last one hurts, but it is true. In fact, not only is it true, it is arguably the most essential talent of cinema…the stroke. It’s a cannibalistic pursuit to be certain; but aren’t those the most fun?
Films are…important. They are. They tell us who we are, they point out who we should be and they tantalize us with what we might become. They also stroke us to be damned. That last one hurts, but it is true. In fact, not only is it true, it is arguably the most essential talent of cinema…the stroke. It’s a cannibalistic pursuit to be certain; but aren’t those the most fun?
Salad days and a little discipline…
Our current financial crisis has several obvious themes. We were undisciplined. We were overly optimistic. We were greedy. Sometimes, we were criminals. These are all universal human qualities that we are not likely to overcome anytime soon. Consequently, it is uninformative to point out these traits as the cause of the current crisis. We did not magically start buying houses we couldn’t afford. We did not magically start lending credit when it was not prudent to do so. We did not magically become too optimistic to be at least somewhat realistic.
Economists have a complicated subject matter to say the least; just try reading their books. The economy is really just an abstraction of standard Machiavellian (Hobbesian, if you prefer) human interaction. So how did it get so out of whack? We didn’t change, I assure you. The “globalization” of everything is also uninformative, I’d argue. For one thing, everyone with a Masters degree and a camera-ready mug has been yakking about “the global economy” for over 15 years…we would have seen that from around the corner. Somebody wake up and figure it out. Please?
Our current financial crisis has several obvious themes. We were undisciplined. We were overly optimistic. We were greedy. Sometimes, we were criminals. These are all universal human qualities that we are not likely to overcome anytime soon. Consequently, it is uninformative to point out these traits as the cause of the current crisis. We did not magically start buying houses we couldn’t afford. We did not magically start lending credit when it was not prudent to do so. We did not magically become too optimistic to be at least somewhat realistic.
Economists have a complicated subject matter to say the least; just try reading their books. The economy is really just an abstraction of standard Machiavellian (Hobbesian, if you prefer) human interaction. So how did it get so out of whack? We didn’t change, I assure you. The “globalization” of everything is also uninformative, I’d argue. For one thing, everyone with a Masters degree and a camera-ready mug has been yakking about “the global economy” for over 15 years…we would have seen that from around the corner. Somebody wake up and figure it out. Please?
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