June 2006 Archives

Once again, some writer or something comes out with a book that says, as a people, we Americans are becoming ruder and ruder and that common courtesies are falling by the wayside and generally, many of us act like that guy on the TV show “Curb Your Enthusiasm� — Larry David — and are basically obnoxious jerks.

The book, titled “Talk to the Hand,� posits that common courtesies are extinct and that many people believe we’re ruder than we were 20 years ago.

I have one thing to say.

Bite me.

Sorry, that was rude.

What I should have said was...

MIKE
ARGENTO

In George Orwell’s prescient novel “1984,� the government frequently announces, to great fanfare, the capture or killing of enemies of the state, actions that result, often, in an outpouring of love toward Big Brother, who proclaims a great victory and assures the people that the news heralds a new day in the struggle against whatever the state was struggling against in “1984.�

Then, days pass, everyone forgets about it. Evidence is tossed down the memory hole and new events eclipse the dawning of the new day.

That came to mind when I read about Ron Suskind’s new book, “The One Percent Doctrine,� and the story of Abu Zubaydah recounted in its pages.

By MIKE
ARGENTO

There is an irony buried deep under the vitriol, idiocy, slander, vileness, ignorance, stupidity and simply breathtaking inanity that passes for the contribution to the public discourse of an alleged carbon-based life form that goes by the name of Ann Coulter.

Of course, you’ve heard about this vile life-support system for a mane of blonde hair. She’s been all over the media, spreading her poison, the vaguely human counterpart of a Gila monster, except with colder blood. It’s amusing that one of her complaints about what she calls the liberal media establishment is that it gives short-shrift to morons like herself who seek airtime to inflict a toxic stew of idiocies masquerading as ideas upon an unsuspecting public.

Her latest missive — I won’t name it because it doesn’t need the publicity — is yet another of her fact-free exercises in what comedian Stephen Colbert calls truthiness, which is essentially cattle excrement that tries to pass itself off as truth.

Keystone Baseball is asking us to vote for the name of the team to be installed in our new ballpark, which, if I had anything to do with it, would be called Bricker's Fries Field...
Anyway, they've given us a choice of four amazingly unspectacular names. THIS JUST IN: Reader Don Coho of West Manchester Township suggested a great name. The stadium will be by the Codorus and that means, mosquitoes. So the team should be named the Creek Skeeters. Coolest mascot on the planet, I'm telling you.
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You're not an angry jerk.
You have a medical disorder.
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Danielle Suppa, an English teacher at Red Lion Area High School, will swim the Chesapeake Bay this weekend.
That's a lot of swimming!
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