The Problem With “The Problem With Apu” The Simpsons recently released a clip responding to the controversy surrounding one of their main characters Apu. An Indian store clerk who is voiced by an white american voice over specialist and actor Hank Azaria. Hari Kondabolu a comedian of Indian decent, wrote and starred in a documentary film…
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Blowing It Scenario #67-Bill Cosby, 40 Plus Years Of Blowing It.
40 Plus Years An Alleged Rapist Has Walked Free. All the while hiding behind the veil of good wholesome family man and comedian. Ridiculing and deriding other comedians that used dirty language in their act. This is the worst kind of predator. The most unassuming, and easy to trust. We were all sold the lie, and…
Blowing It Scenario #66-Set Values And Fixed Mindsets.
Is it egotistical or self righteousness to have standards that are too high for anyone to meet? Even if it is, we never the less should own it, if that is where we place our values. Don’t compromise if you don’t have too. Just know in doing so you’ll be alienating half the people around…
Blowing It Scenario #65-Our Failure To Value Our Time Properly.
Time Is Our Most Valuable Resource We Control. Yet we squander it as if there is a never ending abundance of it. We’ll take on unfulfilling jobs that pay us barely enough to get by and in doing so, we let someone else put a price tag on our time. We’ll think we’re making money…
Blowing It Scenario #64-Believing Your Own Hype.
Don’t Believe The Hype. In the age where everything is posted on the internet, we can find information on just about every subject matter that will either fully support our beliefs or fully disprove them. Yet we buy into these beliefs so fervently that we sometimes refuse to see other people’s truths. Doesn’t matter what…
Blowing It Scenario #63-Chastising Tattle Tales.
We Should Encourage Children To Tattle More. We have all heard it so many times, parents will tell their children don’t be a tattle tale. No one likes a tattle tale. Or we’ll have fun colloquial phrases like, “snitches get stitches,” or “don’t be rat.” These ideas are reinforced in our mind through movies and television….
Blowing It Scenario #62-Devil’s Advocating.
Or As I Like To Call It, Just Being An Asshole. First off why would you want to advocate for the Devil? In mythological terms the Devil is the personification of pure evil. And to advocate is to publicly recommend or support actions. So in playing devil’s advocate you are publicly recommending and or supporting acts…
Blowing It Scenario #61-Condom Snorting Challenge, Kids Are Blowing It.
The Follow Up To The Tide Pods Challenge. Kids are dumb sometimes and although they want you to think they have all the answers they do not always know how to assemble that knowledge in a cohesive way. This is why I think ninety percent of the internet should be off limits to children under…
Blowing It Scenario #60-California Cancer Labeling Laws Adding Coffee To The Possible Cancer Risk List.
California’s Law About Labeling Possible Cancer Risk Is Good In Theory. It just seems a little bias at times. How are you going to label one of the most popular drinks in the world as a possible cancer risk, and not every single processed food items on the shelf of a grocery store? Chips, cancerous,…
Blowing It Scenario #59-Watching Other People Play And Stream Video Games Online.
Blowing It By Wasting Time Watching Another Waste There Time. I recently came across an article about a gentlemen who makes $500,000 a month streaming himself playing video games on the platform twitch. The fact that such a platform exist where people just play video games and upload the videos of them playing is a…