Posts Tagged ‘pet peeves’

I second his motion

Posted: January 25, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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Don Suber in his just ask me column gets it exactly right on the nonsense column comparing Princess Di and Michelle Obama. It is an insult…to Obama:

Mrs. Obama is an accomplished lawyer, pretty good mom (from what I see) and a person of substance who would not fritter away a good marriage for a roll in the hay. Di had her good points, but she was Paris Hilton with underpants.

I don’t like Mrs. Obama’s politics and her neo-patriotism was bizarre. That said, I respect her as a first lady because she acts like a lady first.

I know Baxter meant it as a compliment but America is no place for royalty. As Princess Caroline just found out.

One of my pet peeves is the idolatry over Princess Diana. It is an odd phenom. I like this Mike Barnicle from the week of their death:

And an odd thing happened today. If you believe in God, or a higher being, it’s almost as if God tapped the news media around the world on the shoulder at about 1 o’clock this afternoon and said, “It’s time to straighten your priorities out. Mother Teresa is dead.”

For five straight days we have been making Princess Diana larger than life. She seems like a very wonderful woman, a nice woman. She was 36 years of age. A woman died in Calcutta today who spent all of her life touching the poor and helping the poor. And I’m going to be interested, and I think many Americans would be interested to see if Peter Jennings and Dan Rather and CNN and Tom Brokaw go to Calcutta.

His Boston Globe column of that week on the subject, which I’ve been unable to find free online, was one of the best things he ever wrote.

The fact that Mother Teresa died the same week and the media was forced to give her funeral the same coverage as Diana is one of my “indirect proofs” of Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.
I’ll be doing a post on the subject of “indirect proofs” later in my religion series.

What! You think apples are immune?

Posted: January 24, 2009 by datechguy in tech
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Glenn Reynolds briefly touched on a subject that has been a pet peeve of mine even when I was blogging at HiWired. Mac Virus’. For a decade Mac uses have decided that they need little or no virus protection but were led to believe that Macs by their very nature would not get and can’t get virus’. The spread of all kinds of virus’ on Microsoft Personal Computers and their proliferation gave their argument meat. The fact that the Mac was a niche market with a more computer savvy user base didn’t hurt either.

Lets cut to the chase: Microsoft’s near monopoly status is why it is the main target of virus’. Here is why: (more…)

The word is plurality

Posted: January 21, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I like Hot air, it is a stop I make every day on the net, so let me them some advice:

When you have a headline that says “A near majority” that a sure way to advertise that you don’t have a majority. That type of word game seems a tad weaselly to me.

Just say “a plurality” next time. I can’t stand word games. It is what people do when you want to hide a reality.

Here is the poll.

My Pledge

Posted: January 19, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I’ve already mentioned Hollywood’s hollow presidential pledges and Andrew Breitbart’s superb answer (which you should read at once if you haven’t already).

Here is my pledge as one who held a McCain Palin sign at my polling place for hours on election day:

  • I pledge to support the president when I think he is right and oppose him when I think he is wrong.
  • I pledge to respect and support our troops, our country, its system and its honor in the same way I did during the Bush years.
  • I pledge to show the office of the presidency the respect it deserves.
  • I pledge to give Barak Obama the man the respect due to any man.
  • I pledge when his term is over to judge Obama place in history based on actual history not hysterics as our friends on the left are currently judging President Bush.

Any questions?

Update Huge Whoops dropped words in the sentence above now corrected it. Thanks to Renee for the catch, totally missed it. Must be the John Roberts in me.

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