Overzealous Third Age of SOS
As you all know, we are in the Third Age of SOS, a time when all things are possible and nothing seems out of reach. For those who believe that daring air attacks under the hand of one Blake Mitchell are possible, then all the glory of the world awaits.
To make my point that the world has changed, indeed, has turned many times over since the end of the Second Age, witness the blossoming of wonderful new television shows. The O.C. returns from a lackluster second season to prominence. Arrested Development continues its dominance as funniest show on television. Battlestar Galactica rises as the best show on television, and Boston Legal, of course, the most thoroughly enjoyable.
William Shatner, for instance, is an unbeatable awards show JUGGERNAUT now. He won in last year's Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama for portraying Denny Crane, a brilliant and misunderstood man who is either playing us all for fools or is losing his abilities or some combination of the two. He must command at Crane, Poole & Schmidt but experience a steady erosion in his actual power. His breathtaking performances enamored people so much that he won the Golden Globe for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama and last night won the highest honor that can be bestowed on any single man in television-- the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama. No man more richly deserves these accolades. He has gone where no man has gone before and thankfully come back to us to entertain us these many years later.
Some of you may not be aware that the horses he breeds are world champions and that he often competes, completely dominating 20-yr olds in sophisticated horse riding tournaments. He is 74 years old, believe it or not. He looks a crisp 35, but no, that's how old he was when he began his Star Trek.
In the Third Age of SOS, the Florida Gators resume their ascendance as the preeminent football program in the land. With Urban Meyer, the Gators have found more grit and more poise than they may have ever had. Urban is teaching them to be classy and tough. It is true, of course, that with the same talent, Steve would have annihilated Tennessee on Saturday at least 41-7, but we trust that Urban will learn and even if he can't teach his QBs timing, he can recruit talent to make up for some of that.
The Independent Florida Alligator also completely switched sides on the PC-debate. It only did so because it is stubborn and believes itself above the fray (how, after all, could The Alligator have done something wrong?! oh... and maybe because the ed. board is different...)-- but its defense of the cartoon was a positive development, as was Marlette's temerariousness in sending it in. Actually, I think that's the most impressive thing about the "debate." I could scarcely believe it when I saw it. I asked others if they were interpreting it the same way I was. I loved how they pointed out the rank hypocrisy of so many and exposed that idiot on thefacebook in particular.
Of course, the worst part of this has been "President" Bernie Machen's response to it. This political opportunist has come on the side of CLOSING free speech and debate on campus in the name of "sensitivity." Unfortunately, his job is to help keep the university free and open for dialogue. The man is already indirectly encouraging more people to binge drink and destroy themselves at home (the man should take an economics class, a humanities class, and maybe just redo his general education altogether). Did he really have to write that asinine letter into The Alligator?
The President makes several assertions of insensitivity, flippancy and irresponsibility-- just without explaining how any of these things occurred in the cartoon. No, the President won't raise himself to a discussion of the issue-- instead, he will just decry it for his political handlers and glibly move on. This President is bringing down the quality of the university and I fear we will have to deal with his mistakes for a long time. He will be one of the enemies in this Third Age, although I have hope yet that he can be a partner.
Indeed, all things are possible in the Third Age of SOS. (Tactical nukes, anyone?)
To make my point that the world has changed, indeed, has turned many times over since the end of the Second Age, witness the blossoming of wonderful new television shows. The O.C. returns from a lackluster second season to prominence. Arrested Development continues its dominance as funniest show on television. Battlestar Galactica rises as the best show on television, and Boston Legal, of course, the most thoroughly enjoyable.
William Shatner, for instance, is an unbeatable awards show JUGGERNAUT now. He won in last year's Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama for portraying Denny Crane, a brilliant and misunderstood man who is either playing us all for fools or is losing his abilities or some combination of the two. He must command at Crane, Poole & Schmidt but experience a steady erosion in his actual power. His breathtaking performances enamored people so much that he won the Golden Globe for Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama and last night won the highest honor that can be bestowed on any single man in television-- the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama. No man more richly deserves these accolades. He has gone where no man has gone before and thankfully come back to us to entertain us these many years later.
Some of you may not be aware that the horses he breeds are world champions and that he often competes, completely dominating 20-yr olds in sophisticated horse riding tournaments. He is 74 years old, believe it or not. He looks a crisp 35, but no, that's how old he was when he began his Star Trek.
In the Third Age of SOS, the Florida Gators resume their ascendance as the preeminent football program in the land. With Urban Meyer, the Gators have found more grit and more poise than they may have ever had. Urban is teaching them to be classy and tough. It is true, of course, that with the same talent, Steve would have annihilated Tennessee on Saturday at least 41-7, but we trust that Urban will learn and even if he can't teach his QBs timing, he can recruit talent to make up for some of that.
The Independent Florida Alligator also completely switched sides on the PC-debate. It only did so because it is stubborn and believes itself above the fray (how, after all, could The Alligator have done something wrong?! oh... and maybe because the ed. board is different...)-- but its defense of the cartoon was a positive development, as was Marlette's temerariousness in sending it in. Actually, I think that's the most impressive thing about the "debate." I could scarcely believe it when I saw it. I asked others if they were interpreting it the same way I was. I loved how they pointed out the rank hypocrisy of so many and exposed that idiot on thefacebook in particular.
Of course, the worst part of this has been "President" Bernie Machen's response to it. This political opportunist has come on the side of CLOSING free speech and debate on campus in the name of "sensitivity." Unfortunately, his job is to help keep the university free and open for dialogue. The man is already indirectly encouraging more people to binge drink and destroy themselves at home (the man should take an economics class, a humanities class, and maybe just redo his general education altogether). Did he really have to write that asinine letter into The Alligator?
The President makes several assertions of insensitivity, flippancy and irresponsibility-- just without explaining how any of these things occurred in the cartoon. No, the President won't raise himself to a discussion of the issue-- instead, he will just decry it for his political handlers and glibly move on. This President is bringing down the quality of the university and I fear we will have to deal with his mistakes for a long time. He will be one of the enemies in this Third Age, although I have hope yet that he can be a partner.
Indeed, all things are possible in the Third Age of SOS. (Tactical nukes, anyone?)
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Entourage is the best show on television, no doubt about it.
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