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Becaue They Are Funny AND Because He Leaned Into It

Posted on August 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

Farts are hilarious.

On live TV they are even better.

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The Little People

Posted on August 9, 2011 | 2 comments

I’ve always been a fool, but in January of 2008 I started blogging in an effort to prove that fact to the whole world.

From January 2008 through September 2008 I had less than 900 hits on this site.  In the month of April of that year I had 11.  Eleven flippin’ people came to see what I had to say.  Even my mom didn’t drop by once a day.

Today I had 1,066.

I couldn’t have done it without me.  Thank me, please, thank me!

But serious.  Thank all ya’ll.

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Thoughts On Message And Delivery

Posted on August 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

So, I’m watching the talking heads tonight, can ya tell?  And I’m struck by what might be a delivery problem.

Which of the two people featured above do you resonate with?

Conservatives are boring drab people.

Liberals are….well, their not.

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This Is Me

Posted on July 25, 2011 | 4 comments

NASCAR is big in North Carolina.  I used to make fun of it when I lived back in Minnesota.  Now, we watch it as a family now.

I’ve embraced the South and am beginning to love it.  So, this is me:

Brother Love’s Travellin’ Salvation Show has nothin’ on this man.

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Minnesota Vikings Fail

Posted on July 20, 2011 | 4 comments

I recently posted about the fact that just because a person or group of persons are horrible at a thing doesn’t mean that they aren’t that thing.  My context was, of course, the Leftist President Obama, but I used the Pittsburgh Pirates to illustrate my point.

Just because the Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t had a winning season in 18 years doesn’t mean they not a baseball team.  It means that they are a SHITTY baseball team.

Not surprisingly, this rankled long time [?] reader [actually I’m surprised ANYONE reads this 😉 ] and friend of mine who correctly pointed out in the comment section:

just because the Vikings havent won a super bowl doesn’t mean they aren’t a football team, just means they’re a shitty one.

Turns out she’s right:

Science validates experience: Vikings are hardest local team for fans to root for, says study

The numbers on this one probably didn’t need crunching, but a business publication went ahead and did it anyway: Your Minnesota Vikings are the most difficult of the four major pro teams in the Twin Cities for which to cheer.

It appears as though the criteria was based primarily on wins and losses in the past decade — not heartbreak, off-field shenanigans or the emotional wringer of QBs who just like to have fun out there — which makes the Vikings’ victory more impressive.

From the Business Journal:

The Vikings ranked as the 30th most difficult team to cheer for among all of the 122 teams in the four major professional sports after finishing seventh among the NFL’s 32 teams. That was the highest mark among local teams, and this is one list where you don’t want to be at the top. On Numbers based its rankings on the principle that a perennial loser is harder to root for than team that consistently wins.

Ouch!

Truly, the Vikings are AWESOME at sucking.

However, I do feel better:

The Wolves ranked 37th overall, the Wild 56th and the Twins 76th. The Washington Nationals were the hardest team to root for — finishing slightly ahead of the Detroit Lions.

It makes me feel a little bit better about the prospect of sending the “Christian” to the “Lions”!

Groan.

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Hot Off The Presses – This Just In

Posted on July 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

This just in from CBSNews:

Over to our correspondent’s desk in Raleigh for related news:

100% of Pino children polled Disapprove of the Parents handling of the “Veggies for Dinner Crisis”.

Back to you….

Hat Tip SkyDancingBlog

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Economics: Supply and Deman – Twins Style

Posted on July 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

So, yeah, the Twins have been horrible since the start of the season.  Some of that has to do with some guys getting hurt, to be sure, but I think most of it has to do with not having very many good players.

However, as fate would have it, the Twins play in a  horrible division of baseball and are only 6 games out of 1st.

The Twins think they’re “in it”.

And so too, it seems, do the fans:

The defending American League Central champs struggled out of the gate with a mixture of poor play and injuries. Throw in some inclement weather and it was the “perfect storm” according to Michael Nowakowski, one of the owners of Ticket King, an online ticket broker. A representative from StubHub agreed, saying brokers were “giving away 400 to 500 tickets a game.”

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As he negotiated a deal Thursday, one scalper said he was selling $60 tickets for $5 early in the season. “There was an abundance of tickets on the street. It was bad,” he said. But scalpers were getting as much as $35 more than face value per ticket for the first game following the All-Star break.

In a market that’s widely seen as free, the street, literally, is determining the value of a Twins game.

Fascinating.

An interesting side note:  Notice that in each case, the two parties that exchanged goods–one money for tickets, the other tickets for money–walked away feeling “richer” than they did when they met.  One party was able to ttrade some amount of cash for something that meant more to them; a baseball game.  The other party was able to trade a baseball game for something that meant more to them; cash.

This is the text book example of how trade creates wealth.

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Jon Stewart Winked

Posted on July 10, 2011 | 1 comment

So, last we spoke about Jon Stewart, I was complaining that he let Weiner off the hook.  I made mention of this fact because I felt that Jon is Liberal, Anthony is Liberal and so, Jon let him free.  In retrospect I suspect that the reason Jon Stewart went easy on Anthony Weiner was because the two are friends.

Fair enough.

But tonight I’m catching up on my “The Daily Show” and Jon is mocking Chris Wallace and his interview of Stewart.

In that interview, Jon asks Chris, “Do you think I’m an ideological partisan activist?”

Chris answered, “Yes.”

And Stewart responded that he disagreed with Wallace.

Really?

Jon devouts hours of his time to the mocking of Fox News for being “unbalanced.”  A view I happen to agree with.  It’s clear that Fox takes the conservative “side” in the reporting of the news.  And if Jon felt that he needed to defend his honor in being a comic that comes across as a neutral player, you would think that he would mock MSNBC for the same bias tendencies that Fix has.

None.  Nary a word.

CNN?  Sure.

MSNBC?  Maddow?  Matthews?  Obelrman?

Chirp Chirp.

Stewart is a partisan hack.  He’s funny and talented.  To be very clear, he’s VERY talented.

But he’s a hack.

I was wrong, Jon didn’t blink; he winked.

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I’m Not Always Right. Right?

Posted on July 9, 2011 | 9 comments

I get it; I’m hard to argue with.  I have the cursed combination of:

  1. Never walking away from a fight
  2. Being overly aggressive
  3. Never willing to compromise

With that said, I know, I KNOW, that I can’t be always right.  There simply have to be positions where I’m wrong or where I at least have to compromise.

So, looking back, where do I think I’m wrong?  Where do you think YOU are wrong?

I’ll start.

I am a massive believer in markets and think that we need drastically less regulation.  I’m probably wrong on how far back I wanna go.

I don’t think that we should raise taxes; in fact, I’m for lowering them.  I’m probably wrong on the degree of taxation that’s healthy.

Okay, my name is Pino and I’m a debater.

Your turn.

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Life Is Better Now

Posted on July 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

I picked my son up from day-care this afternoon.

He asked if I had seen the “rocket ship take off”.

I replied that I hadn’t, but asked him if he would like to see it when we got home?

He replied; “Nah, I saw it here on the computer.  Come on dad, let’s get pizza.”

My son is like 5.

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