Philosophy
If you've been working in an office for a while, getting fat off the corporate hog, chances are you've let yourself go. Sure, the paycheck may be nice, but at this point it looks more like you're just desperately compensating for the lack of energy and good looks you once had... yes, that time of your life when you could get chicks without having to flaunt your sports car or your power suit.
At the end of the day, there's a pretty good chance you're watching sports and yelling at the athletes on the TV screen, telling them how to do their jobs. Yes, apparently you've also become a sports analyst. But what if you were to compete against an Olympic athlete? Here is what you would look like:
At least you'd make the rest of us laugh :)
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- Olympic Unease: A Phenomenology Of Fandom
I have long watched televised sports without the sound because commentators drive me nuts with their vacuous mumblings. Half the time you can say exactly what they are going to say when they say it and the other half of the time you are glad you would...
- Reclaiming Sports
A number of sports stories in the news lately. Today, the trial began for a football coach from Louisville, Kentucky charged with reckless homocide for running his team so hard in the heat and depriving them of water that two of the kids ended up in the...
- Age Limits And The Olympics
If the Chinese gymnasts were underage (and there seems little to suggest they were not), then that would be problematic because China would have knowingly broken the rules to give themselves an advantage. But should that advantage be given to all? If...
- Sex Segregation In Sport
Richard over at Philosophy, etc. has an interesting post questioning sex segregation in sports. Is there a principled reason why men and women compete separately in sports? Presumably it allows women to compete who wouldn't stand a chance otherwise....
- Bullshit Or Not: Chomsky Edition
There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, In Search Of... called, Bullshit or Not? with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." So I've stolen it for what is seeming...
Philosophy
Do You Know How Slow You Are?
If you've been working in an office for a while, getting fat off the corporate hog, chances are you've let yourself go. Sure, the paycheck may be nice, but at this point it looks more like you're just desperately compensating for the lack of energy and good looks you once had... yes, that time of your life when you could get chicks without having to flaunt your sports car or your power suit.At the end of the day, there's a pretty good chance you're watching sports and yelling at the athletes on the TV screen, telling them how to do their jobs. Yes, apparently you've also become a sports analyst. But what if you were to compete against an Olympic athlete? Here is what you would look like:
At least you'd make the rest of us laugh :)
.
- Olympic Unease: A Phenomenology Of Fandom
I have long watched televised sports without the sound because commentators drive me nuts with their vacuous mumblings. Half the time you can say exactly what they are going to say when they say it and the other half of the time you are glad you would...
- Reclaiming Sports
A number of sports stories in the news lately. Today, the trial began for a football coach from Louisville, Kentucky charged with reckless homocide for running his team so hard in the heat and depriving them of water that two of the kids ended up in the...
- Age Limits And The Olympics
If the Chinese gymnasts were underage (and there seems little to suggest they were not), then that would be problematic because China would have knowingly broken the rules to give themselves an advantage. But should that advantage be given to all? If...
- Sex Segregation In Sport
Richard over at Philosophy, etc. has an interesting post questioning sex segregation in sports. Is there a principled reason why men and women compete separately in sports? Presumably it allows women to compete who wouldn't stand a chance otherwise....
- Bullshit Or Not: Chomsky Edition
There's an old sketch film called Amazon Women on the Moon and one of the bits is a parody of the old Leonard Nimoy show, In Search Of... called, Bullshit or Not? with the tagline "Bullshit or not? You decide." So I've stolen it for what is seeming...