"Why should we be studying (in school) for a future that will soon be no more?" - Greta Thunberg encouraging youths to skip school on Fridays to protest climate change outside their local government buildings Climate activist Greta Thunberg is the latest global media darling. Good for her. The human race needs people from each generation who will further the cause of protecting the earth. Greta's climate message is spot on except for the demonization of prior generations. She is mistaken to think that today's youth are the first young people to take up the cause of environmental activism. "Save the planet" has been a cause celebre for at least 50 years. There is literally nothing new under the sun, just the ferocity
Month: September 2019
The Beasman ain’t skeered when the kids forget to call their Old Kentucky Home
GAMECOCKS. pic.twitter.com/RvnCpIxYud— Terry (@PhillyTeez30) September 29, 2019 THE BEASMAN cats losing streak GO CATS! GO BLUE! US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS AIN’T GIVE UP ON YOU YET! I MEAN, WE DONE LINED THE STREETS FOR FREE BASKETBAW PRACTICE TICKETS BUT THAT DON’T MEAN WE DON’T CARE ABOUT FOOTBAW. STOOPS TROOPS IS SECOND BANANA ONCE COACH CAL’S NEW TEAM STARTS PRACTICIN! GO BLUE! GO CATS! FARDY & OH! POOR OL LARRY MINNER! HIS TEAMS GOT CRUSHED THIS WEEKEND. THEM SAINT X HIGH SCHOOL BOYS DON’T BLONG ON THE SAME FIELD WITH THEM TRINITY MENS! YOUR SAINT X BOYS IS DIVISION 2 AND TRINITY IS LIKE A S.E.C. COLLEGE TEAM, LARRY! Y’ALL CROSS-EYED SAINT X
Cancel Culture is in the eye of the beholder
Is Cancel Culture generated by sensitive millennials or sensitive rich, powerful people? Great topic analysis from this dude. Let's check his old Tweets before we decide if we actually like him. Comedian Sarah Silverman has been pushing back on the cancel culture concept. Silverman WOKE to the cancel culture conundrum after her 2007 anti-racism blackface sketch was recently used to drag her on the internet. It cost her a movie role and limited other opportunities so Silverman pushed back against the "perversion" of "gotcha mining" of dated comedy. The cancel culture people did not understand the nuance of a white woman mocking racism with racism. Silverman says she no longer stands by the sketch. The cancel culture saw only blackface without enough intellectual curiosity
MM JADED — Don’t touch reporters and don’t send them out there alone
Eric Goodman has been identified as the guy who pretended to spank me and kiss me during the live shot Friday. He’s charged with harassment with physical contact. He has written me an apology letter, I’ll read that on @wave3news later today. pic.twitter.com/chgG9tikVp— Sara Rivest (@SRivestWAVE3) September 26, 2019 Sara Rivest of WAVE3 News was the victim of harassment by a passerby as she delivered her live shot at Bourbon and Beyond. She did the right thing in using social media to identify the harasser. All of the publicity spotlighted 42-year-old Eric Goodman as the assailant, who is now learning a harsh lesson about respecting personal space. Read the Twitter comments in the above thread for explosive reactions ranging from people
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Attention, humans! We only have a few years left! Grownups have stolen Greta's childhood! Hysteria! Outrage! Move to higher ground for the end! Here's one of the gentle messages from a Louisville student who ditched classes to participate in the #ClimateStrike on September 20, 2019. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg sailed to New York to deliver harsh words to adults who've not heeded warnings about climate change. Greta fears that human life cannot be sustained on the earth beyond another decade. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
Cats fail to Kash but THE STREAK STARTS NOW
𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗞𝗬𝗟𝗜𝗡 👀#HailState🐶 | @H_Kylin pic.twitter.com/5FguNeL4WY— Mississippi State Football (@HailStateFB) September 21, 2019 THE BEASMAN cats lose again I ALMOST WANNA VOMIT WHEN YOU ANSWER THE PHONE! U OF SMELL AIN’T NOTHIN BUT A BUNCH OF DEMONS! ALL Y’ALL SNAGGLE TOOTH, STINKBREATH CARDINAL FANS WAS A-SQAWKIN BOUT KASH DANIEL TWISTIN THAT FLORIDER GUY’S ANKLE BUT I SEEN SOME U OF SMELL THUG ON SAIRDEE TRYIN TO BREAK A LEG ON A FLORIDER STATE GUY. HOW COME Y’ALL AIN’T ALL HOT-HEADED ABOUT THAT, YOU BUNCH OF HIPPER-CRIT LOSERVILLE LOSERS! What a play by @dezfitz8! 😳#GoCards #MustSeeACC | @UofLFootball pic.twitter.com/nfQYJmE4E1— ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) September 21, 2019 IT’S OK WHEN A U OF SMELLER TRIES TO BREAK A GUY’S LEG BUT
A peculiar twist – did UK twist media arms to scrub video – and is the word LIAR embedded in peculiar?
The University of Kentucky's football series with the University of Florida has taken on a peculiar twist. Last year in Gainesville, the Kentucky Wildcats snapped a 31 game losing streak to the Florida Gators. UK linebacker Kash Daniel celebrated on the visitors' field. AND THATS THE BOTTOM LINE! @steveaustinBSR pic.twitter.com/eq3cfstfNZ— Kash Daniel (@KashDaniel15) September 9, 2018 This year in Lexington, the Gators won a dramatic contest over UK and a Florida player returned the gesture. pic.twitter.com/l12LTtRb5M— Alex Huelsman (@alex_huelsman) September 15, 2019 Beyond Florida's victory came an outpouring of angry Gator fans who saw Kentucky's Kash Daniel twist the ankle of their quarterback Kyle Trask. Daniel denied any wrongdoing, but further video angles affirm Florida claims that the UK player
Never mind!
Inadvertent media errors are understandable. Punctuation and camera angles sometimes get the short shrift by media workers. No one gets hurt by minor mistakes in media. However, lives are ruined when media manipulation is in play. This adds to the burning tire fire that is fake news. Ouch! We report tonight the real bombshell: Christine Ford’s close HS friend (who Ford says was at the party when Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her) said Ford’s story is not believable and told the FBI Ford’s allies pressured her, threatened her with a smear campaign to say otherwise https://t.co/GQhBTXHcze— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) September 17, 2019 This is really helpful to our media business. Thanks for the punch in the face, New York Times. So the New York
For Kentucky football, targeting is triggering
THE BEASMAN florida curse I HATE YOU AND EVERTHANG YOU STAND FOR, LARRY MINNER. “CHANCE POOR” THAT ANY TRUE BLUE WILDCAT FAN EVER WANNA LISSEN AT YOU…ON THAT RADIO GIGGLIN LIKE A SCHOOL GIRL ABOUT LAY-MAR JACKSON AND TEDDY DIRTY WATER PLAYIN N.F.L. INSTEAD OF SOUNDIN SAD ABOUT OUR BELOVED CATS LOSIN TO THEM FLORI-DER PHONIES AGAIN! (cry) ALL US GOOD AND CLASSY KENTUCKY WILDCATS FANS IS LICKIN OUR WOUNDS AND Y’ALL WH&S PEOPLE JUST ON THERE TODAY HOLLERIN AND CUTTIN UP LIKE YOU’S AT A CARDINAL HOOTENANY. (cry) DADGUMMIT, Y’ALL POSED TO BE GRIEVIN LIKE THE REST OF US, YOU CROSS-EYED, PENCIL NECK, TWO-BIT, DRUNK FOR BREAKFAST, WELFARE STAMP, CHAIN GANG, NOBODY LOSERVILLE WILDCAT WANNABES! WE GOT A FIELD GOAL
In Kentucky, basketball stardom overrides terroristic threatening
.@boogiecousins: @UKAthletics Hall of Famer.Congratulations to DeMarcus on joining the elite club. pic.twitter.com/LIpMi5I7Wg— Kentucky Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) September 14, 2019 Congratulations to Kentucky one-and-done star DeMarcus Cousins. He helped the Cats get to the Elite Eight a decade ago and has made the NBA all-star team multiple times. He just got married two weeks ago, threatened to murder his baby mama, and is now in the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Wait, what? Yeah, he got a bit steamed when his ex wouldn't allow their child to attend "Boogie" Cousins' wedding to another woman so the NBA star allegedly threatened her over the phone. She recorded it and released it to TMZ. There's been no legal update since the