It’s Easier To Be Stupid
That’s right. It’s easier to be stupid than it is be smart.
It is easier to listen to the political pundits and television news anchors and trust their words completely than it is to study, read, and search to discover the truth about a political issue or to actually read one of the bills or proposals you are so vehemently for or against.
It is easier to believe Rush or O’Reilly or Hannity or Olberman or Rachel or Beck or even Larry Winget than it is to actually do a little fact checking of your very own. It’s work to find the truth out about any issue, so it’s easier to just accept what you hear as fact.
It is easier to listen to the preachers and believe every word they say from their pulpit than it is to read the book yourself, or maybe lots of books and search for your own insight and develop your beliefs based on your own experiences.
It’s easier to just toe the party line because you are registered Democrat or Republican than it is to ask whether the party line makes sense or not.
Identity theft via social networking sites
This week facebook allowed you to select a user name so people could find you more easily. You could select one name and it could not be transferred, edited or changed, so you were advised to select carefully! At 12:01 Saturday morning when it became legal to select your user name, people went online and grabbed their name, usually their real name, in order to have their own dedicated URL such as www.facebook.com/larrywinget.
I certainly had every intention of picking my username when I woke up that Saturday morning but I didn’t plan on staying up and camping out online to grab it at 12:01. So when I woke up that morning and went to get my user name, I couldn’t because a dirtbag, cheeseball named Eric Winager had already made larrywinget HIS username. Why would he do that? I couldn’t figure out how using my name would benefit anyone other than me. What good would my name as a URL do someone who wasn’t named Larry Winget? It turns out I am not nearly as devious as some people.
I contacted Eric Winager, who proudly claimed to be an Oklahoma Alum and who already had about 350 facebook friends of his own and asked why he would grab my name for his user name. His response to me was this:
The Five Things To Do When The Money Runs Out
I get a lot of email from people who have either lost their jobs or are losing their jobs. Their 401K is gone, their savings is zeroed out or maybe their unemployment checks have run out. This is becoming a common situation for a good part of our society as unemployment rises. Many people are facing a lack of employment and a lack of funds. Yet their family still needs to eat and the bills still have to be paid. Does this apply to you? I hope it doesn’t. But I am betting that you know someone who is in this situation.
It’s too late to tell people they should have saved more (six months cash set aside to cover your monthly expenses.) It’s too late to say you should have worked harder or smarter or better so you wouldn’t have been the one who got laid off (not always the case but it is often the case.) It’s too late to say that you shouldn’t have spent so much money on stupid stuff – that you shouldn’t have wasted money on things that gave only very temporary satisfaction – that you shouldn’t have gone out to eat 4 nights a week or bought that car you couldn’t really afford or that house you knew you couldn’t make the payments on if anything happened to your income. It’s too late to beat people up about any of that stuff at this point, so I don’t and I won’t.
Instead, it’s time to give folks some ideas they can use when it’s crunch time, they are scrambling and when survival is the main concern. So here you go:
LeBron James - Octomom - GM. WARNING Parental Advisory!
I have a few issues with what has happened in the news today. These issues can be used to teach your children valuable lessons. I apologize to my more sensitive readers as this is rougher language than I normally use in my rants. If you are offended, sorry. But seriously, grow up!
1. LeBron James refuses to shake hands after getting beat. He claims, “I am a competitor. I am not a poor sport. I like to win. That’s just who I am.” Sorry Asshole, let me help you with who you really are: you are a poor sport. You shake hands after a game. Period. Win or lose. Here is the opportunity for all parents to use this example of poor sportsmanship to teach your children a valuable lesson. Explain to your kids that they are not supposed to act like this. Teach that this is not acceptable behavior by anyone. Knock this guy off every pedestal he has been placed on and don’t let him pretend to be a role model for your kids. He is an ungrateful jerk. We ALL like to win. We all HATE to lose. But losing is a part of life and you better learn to do it graciously. Teach your kids to lose graciously and win the same way.
The Average American – Please Don’t Be One!
Why would I say you shouldn’t be an average American? Because the average American is fat, stupid and broke. Don’t believe me?
* The average American is fat. 65% of all adults over the age of 20 are overweight and 31% are obese.
*The average American owes $10,000 on their credit cards.
*The average American reads at a seventh grade level.
*The average American doesn’t read a non-fiction book after graduating high school.
*The average American has little or no savings. In fact, the average 50 year old American has less than $2500 saved.
*The average American spends nearly six hours a day watching television.
*The average American complains about how hard they work, yet studies tell us that they only work half the time they are on the job.
*The average American parent spends only 3.5 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children.
*The average American doesn’t exercise, doesn’t read, doesn’t communicate well, eats nearly twice as many calories as necessary, and is obsessed with the mundane and the superficial.
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