Way to let me down, Barnicle.
Seriously? Countless acts of blatant plagiarism and you still get to keep your job as a decorated journalist; even after being forced to resign from the Boston Globe?
Now you're a televised journalist making twice as much money to have people listen to your cruel dishonesty. And really, fabricating cancer? How shockingly uncool that article was. Terminal Illness is still taboo, you heartless fossil.
I remember reading it, thinking to myself as I almost filled with tears, the same way the less fortunate mother did when she opened a check for $10,000 dollars, sent from the family who's son had survived. Getting that warm fuzzy feeling you feel when you read a nice birthday card from your grandmother; all for it to be destroyed as quickly as my brain absorbed it. I'm a sucker.
How dare you make millions off the fabrication of falsehoods in your stories. How dare you do your fan base and our society a disservice by omitting the truth in your articles. And lastly, how dare you take credit for the comedic genius of George Carlin. Have you any unique thoughts of your own? Probably not considering you have produced countless anti-facts in the course of your literary career.
When I become a famous, well recognized, published writer, I will broadcast to the world, across the world and the world wide web, how you, Mike Barnicle, master of journalistic disguise, have disappointed me.
You can't even stand up and admit to your written thievery. Can't say 'I'm sorry, America, I have lied to you the same way all your great leaders have. You know what Barnicle? I am more of a man than you'll ever be; able to call you out without blinking, thinking and hardly proofreading. How you like me now?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Stoopid vs. Google
Is Google making us stupid? Answer: No. In fact, this search engine give us the opportunity to search infinitely for information regarding anything, with just a few simple clicks of a keyboard.
Is Google making us lazy and giving us ADD? Answer: yes. For example, you turn on your computer, open a web browser for Google. You have a song stuck in your head that you simply cannot remember the name of. “The lyrics are something like, “Not one more word tonight”… and then you can’t remember the rest. The melody is echoing through your ears and you have this unquenchable thirst for knowing what song has been invading your brain space all morning. You type in the lyrics and instantly are connected with the tune that has been hiding inside you. The name of the song, Sink Florida Sink, by the band: Against Me. Hundreds of web pages open at your fingertips and you begin searching, reading, listening and before you have the ability to listen to the second verse of the song you have already purchased two albums, bought concert tickets and downloaded three different versions of Sink Florida Sink on your iPod. I sure hope you don’t regret your recent purchases.
People joke about our generations’ lack of attention span, but it’s true. The second we see something shiny, our attention shifts from one thing to another in a spectrum of polar opposites. You’re sitting at your computer, reading an article for class. It could be something your passionate about. Say your reading about a new pilot for a cop drama due out sometime this winter on NBC. You love the cast, the dramatics, and the controversial topics that are going to be part of this program. You are reading this article and you cannot help yourself from thinking about something totally different. Read a paragraph, close the window, open your face book account, make some stupid status update about how “bored to death” you are on a Saturday afternoon. Suddenly three hours have past and you’ve forgotten the measly paragraph in the article you were so eager to read.
Is Google making us stupid? No. We do more reading on a daily basis now than our society has ever before. Is what we are reading deep? Full of composure? Meaningful? No, mostly it’s a series of text messages all pertaining to what we’re doing this weekend and who is driving. So when you try to blame technology for our ever growing ADD and stupidity, step back, take a long look in the mirror, and thank yourself for paying more attention to reality television than America’s deficit.
Is Google making us lazy and giving us ADD? Answer: yes. For example, you turn on your computer, open a web browser for Google. You have a song stuck in your head that you simply cannot remember the name of. “The lyrics are something like, “Not one more word tonight”… and then you can’t remember the rest. The melody is echoing through your ears and you have this unquenchable thirst for knowing what song has been invading your brain space all morning. You type in the lyrics and instantly are connected with the tune that has been hiding inside you. The name of the song, Sink Florida Sink, by the band: Against Me. Hundreds of web pages open at your fingertips and you begin searching, reading, listening and before you have the ability to listen to the second verse of the song you have already purchased two albums, bought concert tickets and downloaded three different versions of Sink Florida Sink on your iPod. I sure hope you don’t regret your recent purchases.
People joke about our generations’ lack of attention span, but it’s true. The second we see something shiny, our attention shifts from one thing to another in a spectrum of polar opposites. You’re sitting at your computer, reading an article for class. It could be something your passionate about. Say your reading about a new pilot for a cop drama due out sometime this winter on NBC. You love the cast, the dramatics, and the controversial topics that are going to be part of this program. You are reading this article and you cannot help yourself from thinking about something totally different. Read a paragraph, close the window, open your face book account, make some stupid status update about how “bored to death” you are on a Saturday afternoon. Suddenly three hours have past and you’ve forgotten the measly paragraph in the article you were so eager to read.
Is Google making us stupid? No. We do more reading on a daily basis now than our society has ever before. Is what we are reading deep? Full of composure? Meaningful? No, mostly it’s a series of text messages all pertaining to what we’re doing this weekend and who is driving. So when you try to blame technology for our ever growing ADD and stupidity, step back, take a long look in the mirror, and thank yourself for paying more attention to reality television than America’s deficit.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Mary J.. Yay or Nay?
Marijuana has been given a negative reputation for decades as nothing more than a "gateway" drug; impairing your motor skills or resulting in laziness. This substance needs to be given a new header.
Consider this your coming out party, pot.
People do not pay enough attention to the danger in consuming alcohol, or the distribution of medicinal narctoics. These legal proucts have been proven hazardous, addictive, and damaging to the people who use them; whether it be recreationally or doctor perscribed. The reality of the situation is, there are more deaths per year from the use of these controlled substances than there have EVER been from smoking a joint with your friends.
This is an all natural plant that is used with the intention to relax you, create feelings of ease and zen. Not to impair your ability to reason, or cause you to black out like hitting the bottle does. Nor is marijuana designed to cause an instant addiction such as some of the ingridients found in OxyCodon.
People need to stop taking the recreational use of Marijuana so seriously. It's a "drug" that people will never stop using for various reasons. The more you tell us to do something, the easier it is for us to want to do it, and where there's a will, unfortunately, there is a way.
As humans we have the ability to do things in moderation, to tell ourselves when enough is enough, but when did we lose such faith in our choice to "say no". If you don't want to get high, don't get high. If you do, the penalties resulting in your ability to hit the bowl are beyond unreasonable. Jail time, community service, mandatory rehabilitation classes. Harsh reality, huh?
Get over it, America. It's just pot. Reach out to your inner frat boy and indugle.
Consider this your coming out party, pot.
People do not pay enough attention to the danger in consuming alcohol, or the distribution of medicinal narctoics. These legal proucts have been proven hazardous, addictive, and damaging to the people who use them; whether it be recreationally or doctor perscribed. The reality of the situation is, there are more deaths per year from the use of these controlled substances than there have EVER been from smoking a joint with your friends.
This is an all natural plant that is used with the intention to relax you, create feelings of ease and zen. Not to impair your ability to reason, or cause you to black out like hitting the bottle does. Nor is marijuana designed to cause an instant addiction such as some of the ingridients found in OxyCodon.
People need to stop taking the recreational use of Marijuana so seriously. It's a "drug" that people will never stop using for various reasons. The more you tell us to do something, the easier it is for us to want to do it, and where there's a will, unfortunately, there is a way.
As humans we have the ability to do things in moderation, to tell ourselves when enough is enough, but when did we lose such faith in our choice to "say no". If you don't want to get high, don't get high. If you do, the penalties resulting in your ability to hit the bowl are beyond unreasonable. Jail time, community service, mandatory rehabilitation classes. Harsh reality, huh?
Get over it, America. It's just pot. Reach out to your inner frat boy and indugle.
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