Most Appalling of 2003
After getting an idea from Eric Olsen, I was thinking...
There are many choices for most appalling person, place or event of 2003. Coming in at the wire, there?s the warning from FBI to beware of people bearing almanacs. This has to be one of the most pointless warnings in the history of warnings. Next they'll be issuing warnings about people wearing glasses, which could be used to read almanacs which could be used to plan terrorism. I shudder to think of the tree-frog-like brain in the middle manager at the FBI who thought this was a good warning. I would submit the colour coordinated threat levels as the worst event, but it wasn't event this year.
Then there's the Valerie Plame affair. Bob Novak reported on her being a CIA agent - oops but that's against the rules! Especially when the administration person(s) who leaked it to Novak was shopping the story around, hoping to throw dirt on her husband, who was opposed to Bush's Iraq policies. Yesterday's act of treason is today's political reality, I suppose.
Bill O'Reilly's idiocy was highlighted when Fox News tried to sue Al Franken over his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them". Bill is all for free speech for he, not for thee...His overwhelming hypocrisy is all the more funny when you realize that's what the book is about. Well, he did help boost sales, so I'm sure Al thanks him...
I know you think the movie 'Gigli' was bad, but I think you have to give the worst film crown to 'From Justin to Kelley' the film with two hopefully-with-short-lived careers from 'American Idol'. A nod to many people I met who thought "The Real Cancun' demonstrated just what doesn't work on films despite working on TV.
Michael Jackson....nah, too easy.
The murder of Zahra Kazemi in Iran, where she was working more or less as a journalist, and the lack of Iranian investigation was particularly galling. She was beaten, taken into custody, died, and was swiftly buried. When someone talks to me of emerging democracy in Iran, I wonder what Zahra's opinion on the matter would be.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
Thanks Jerry, glad I could be of idea assistance!
2 - AST
Sports: The BCS
Political commentary: O'Reilly and Franken deserve each other. Who is this Moore person and why does anybody listen to him?
Politics: The Democrats
News: The disgusting self-pity of the NYTimes over Jayson Blair.
Science and Tech: The Columbia
World Events: The Axis of Weasels
Entertainment: Siegfried and Roy. Oh, yeah, and that tiger mauling one of them, and Michael Jackson who only looks like he was mauled.
General: the support of Arafat and terrorist groups among the Palestinians.
3 - Mac Diva
Very unoriginal. Rote Right Wing.
4 - Jerry
I'm not quite sure how Politics: The Democrats are appalling. Back home the job of the opposition party is to oppose. We're already down to a two party state, it's still preferable to the many one party states out there.
I'm not sure if "rote right wing" is for me, but I've been banned from birthday parties for being "too liberal", so it's certainly an ironic appelation.