discovery channel: hypocritical?

Discovery channel? More like shows about ruining the Earth channel. (...that sucked) Before I get into specific shows, let me make it clear that no matter what is said in the following lines, DC might be the best station on TV. Unfortunately, like many other endeavors we partake in, our indulgence in it may not always be the best for the world we live in.

Show numero uno that ruins the environment: Deadliest Catch (and all other large-scale fishing-related shows). I have to be honest, like most of the others, I've spent some serious time kicking back to this. Here's the problem though: it's a show about fishing... really overfishing. This has become a giant problem for biodiversity and environmental health. Though fishermen will never admit it, the populations of the species sought after are dropping rapidly. Any time you start messing around with nature, it's going to start to have issues. It's kind of like the overly sensitive kid who sobs every time you throw his housekeys into the sewer drain. (nevermind...) OK not really but when we F with nature, it never has a positive outcome.

Second, and maybe the most obvious: American Loggers. Are you kidding me? What happened to all the jibba-jabba about saving the Earth? Probably 70-90% of shows on Discovery support saving the environment, but then you glorify professions like fucking LOGGING, the WORST THING IMAGINABLE for the Earth on the same channel!!! This is a pretty sick thing in my eyes. I've said enough.

Third, Dirty Jobs. Mike Rowe is not superhuman, he's actually kind of a douche. Don't get me wrong, he's entertaining, even attractive for a middle-aged dude. (yep, that comfortable with being straight) But half of these jobs he glorifies (again, and for lack of a better alternative), they are destroying the Earth. OK fine, it's not even close to half. But it's another example of how at times, a DC show can make ruining the world look good.

Four, Howe and Howe Tech. A stretch perhaps, but this crap certainly isn't doing anything positive.

Five, and I don't like admitting it. Man Vs. Wild. The only reason Bear eats all of the animals on the show (salmon, frog, snakes, OTTER, etc etc) is to sell the show. Yeah, he's supposedly showing you how to survive, but let's be honest it's just a sales pitch in the commercials. I really like this show, so this one hurts a little bit, but when you're sleeping in a hotel half the night (rumors perhaps, but after  this: I don't know) you don't need to kill that many animals unnecessarily.

As a side note, I'd like to add that Ghost Trackers should also get off Discovery. I thought this was a science-oriented channel, not a superstition-driven one. C'mon.

All in all, the Discovery Channel and its programming probably does more good than bad for the Earth. Look, I'm sure there is no argument as to who is increasing awareness and whatnot about environmental degradation and general issues when DC is compared with other stations. I just want to point out that if you are going to have a channel whose mission statement seems to involve environmental awareness and protection, you can't be glorifying professions that do quite the opposite. That's my opinion. Stay classy San Diego.

keep the change ya filthy animal

The break is over, christmas lights are coming down and menorahs are being put away. Holiday season is done. Haven't checked the radio yet, but hopefully gleeful music has died down for the year and we can listen to more overtly racist conservative radio. Don't get me wrong though, the holidays aren't terrible, they just last a bit long. I hope people celebrate my birthday for this long after I die- and I wasn't made up by bronze age scribes.

You know what doesn't make any sense? Pennies. With inflation at its current rate, nothing should ever have a price outside of multiples of 5 cents. When's the last time anybody carried around pennies intentionally? Pennies are virtually worthless. Let's remove the 'virtually' and move on.

Another mind-boggler: The numerous strings that allow you to open and close your blinds. On a standard venetian blind set, you've got one set of strings that flop around before they come together at the bottom. Put some fucking clamp or some shit on them in the middle at least! So when you attempt to use these worthless white pieces of shit, you end up pulling 2 out of 3 and the blinds end up all sideways and sh*t! Without a clamp they're about as useless as how-to-do-heroine pamphlets for drug addicts.

How about, since we can walk around on the moon and invent a thousand ways to control birth (...?), invent some fucking blinds with one string! If nothing else, put a couple of those little plastic things that are on the ends of shoelaces onto the damn strings to keep them together! It is honestly set up to fuck you over.

BTW, do ppl rly py ovr $1k fr hndbgs? Insanity. If I ever hear the words 'eghh, can you please buy me a coach bag for 9 grand this xmas eghhhhhh eghh egh hggh egh', I might go on an almost-killing spree (where you beat people just within an inch of their lives: of course). And yes, they'd obviously be making random 'egh' sounds throughout their speech. This is a characteristic that is consistently comorbid with the desire to pay for/own incredibly expensive BAGS . They are BAGS . Go to the grocery store, they're FREE . Go to your local nyc knock-off retailer, they're NOT A THOUSAND DOLLARS .

Oh yeah, and abbreviating everything simply because you are too lazy to type... it's not that bad. Just means you're a fuckface. And by fuckface, I mean when I do it it's OK (though it still looks ridiculous, particularly because presumably I actually have the time to type things out), but not overall. That brings us to another point-

Time to get deep. That's pretty common isn't it. Everybody makes exceptions for themselves. It's all ego defense, but either way a reality. When we hear something that someone did that seems wrong/stupid/embarrassing, we often are the first critics. But for ourselves, the opposite is true. Our excuses are relentless, and the humiliation unequivocally lands on us. Why can't we just handle it better when we make mistakes? Because we haven't yet matured enough as a species? Because somehow this characteristic helped us survive in evolutionary terms? Maybe it just isn't as common as it seems. But regardless- those of us, myself included, need to get better at being wrong.

But I'm right.100% of the time.