Super Bowl TV: Good game, wretched ads, pathetic half-time show - baltimoresun.com

Super Bowl TV: Good game, wretched ads, pathetic half-time show - baltimoresun.com:

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My friend, Jeff, responded to the article with this response. As an aging woman (and there are many of us), I felt very proud of his reply.

Mr. Zurawik -

I am outraged at some of the hypocritical comments you made in your article "Super Bowl TV: Good game, nasty ads, pathetic half-time show."

In said article, you lamented that the Super Bowl commercials were "a barometer of our culture. And what they said to me is that we have become a truly dumbed-down, crass, trashy and even cruel society -- and somehow proud of it."

Well, sir, you apparently have inhaled the air of our culture and it is seeping its way out of your inarticulate pores.

After condemning the cruelty on display, you turn around and make ageist comments about the star halftime performer, calling her "an embalmed version of Madonna snatched off the undertaker's table." That is incredibly offensive for a number of reasons, but most importantly you are taking cruel pot shots at a person because of her age. That is dumbfoundingly inappropriate, rude, unprofessional and CRUEL for a person in the media to make a remark like that. I would expect that from some uneducated putz on Twitter with no sense of pride in himself or the establishment he represents, but not from a member of the media. If you're supposed to be a critic, then fine, criticize the performance all you want - but how DARE you mean-spiritedly criticize a person for aging. By making such a statement, you are essentially telling each of your readers that, at 53 years old, you are worthless, washed up and should rot in a grave someplace. Have you given any thought to the average age of your readership? All evidence would point to the fact that you have not. You owe every single one of them a sincere apology.

I have no idea how old you are, Mr. Zurawik, but you too will eventually get old. I hope when you get to a certain age the tide will have turned and people will no longer be chastised for getting older...but by then, if your attitude hasn't changed, there may not be anyone around you who cares how old you've become.

Jeff Kirkpatrick

Adam Carolla explains the OWS Generation - YouTube

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And, who now hates me for thinking he is right? This is coming from a lazy ass who could have been anybody, but doesn't have everything she wants because of her own ass-douchery. I know what to do to get more, I'm just too damned lazy to do it. I admit it!!!

Guess what!?! I'm old

I hate being old. I don't feel old (well except my shoulder) and I don't act old and I certainly don't think old. But, to you youngins out there, I'm old. This my friends, is my year. It's my video, my song, my year. Thunderkiss this ass mofos!

Hell in a hand-basket

My life has gone to hell in a hand-basket lately. I've never understood what that phrase means, but I feel like I'm in a tiny compartment of hell, so I'll go with hit.

I've never been one to allow water to roll off my back. Water somehow rolls into the dips between my shoulders and neck and forms a deep and lasting gouge that weighs me down literally and figuratively. This being down crap has to stop.

How I wish I could meditate or do some functional form of exercise to release stress. It's just not me. It never has been and I don't think at this point in my life that is likely to change.

One of my bosses recommended some courses on Science of the Mind. If you get too wrapped up in it, you'll see a lot of stuff about God, which can be off-putting. However, it is believed that the purpose is to wrap up "universe" and "life" and "creation" under the term God, so I'm better able to work with the ideas. A trinity of spirit (cause), soul (medium) and body (effect).

Will reading any of this do me any good? Will knowing I do not have the power to control what will be but only my reactions to what have been caused help me out of this rut? Only time will tell, but I'm willing to make the time, for now, to see if miracles can truly happen. To stop the anxiety and worry and self-flagellation will truly require one.

The Science of Mind Google Book

This is priceless