For Your Consideration: Entitled Observers

A while back a friend and I were discussing "transparency" and hit upon something I called entitled observers. Entitled Observers are people who essentially go looking for stuff, ideas, topics in real life and online so that they can pass judgement or give their opinions where they have little or no vested interest. The extreme Entitled Observers end up being moralists, bigots and reactionaries. More subtle Entitled Observers are the nosy busy bodies who have to be "in" on all the cool stuff, secrets and/or gossip. The problem is that many of these people do not realize is that not everyone values their opinions as highly as they do nor should people be expected to change their behaviors just because others are uncomfortable or misunderstanding what they are doing. Live and Let Live, I say.

DC does market research.

DC decides to do some market reasearch — let them know how you feel | The Beat

That's so real

"She's not so much a trophy wife as she is a participation ribbon wife:"  - Mike Gelfand (b. 195?); Radio personality; regarding Michaela Salahi, KQ Morning Show (KQRS-FM, 92.5 FM Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN), Sept 15, 2011, ~8:56am

DCpU Reboot: The Flash

The god Mercury, having offended both Hera and Zeus, is banished to Earth. He assumes the identity of Barry Allen, police forensics investigator and fights crime as.... The Flash!  (Coming when monkeys fly out my butt.)

An Open Letter to Bill Smith, Ron Gardenhire and Rick Anderson.

I would like to offer my services to the Minnesota Twins bullpen. I can throw pitches that result in hitters making in-play contact AND I am cheaper than any bullpen pitcher you have. I will take the abuse for losing games which we should have won for league minimum.

I figure using me this season should save you enough money to sign a backup catcher who can call a ballgame half as good as the one with "bilateral leg weakness."

Think about it, because this season is over. Harmon Killebrew must be spinning in his grave as this season begins to resemble the Twins' seasons from 1973 to 1981. C'mon Cuddy, hit a touchdown!

Bummer about The Rapture, Dude.

Well.... it looks like "Christians" have to go back to turning the other cheek and loving thy neighbor as thyself. What a bummer for all the moral bullies.

Dear Ziggy Wilf:

How can you salvage the rest of this year? Well, I have a four step plan.

1. Fire Brad Childress. This guy who poses as the Vikings head coach has questionable judgement at best. He insisted that he could make an NFL quarterback out of Tavaris Jackson in 2006, then in 2009 he stated that Tavaris needed more work and brought in Brett Favre. Now in 2010, he lost the best liason between him and Brett Favre when Sage Rosenfels was traded. Now we have not one, but two backup QBs on the team who he is "developing" in to NFL quarterbacks: Tavaris Jackson and rookie Joe Webb. See a pattern here? He is destroying the quarterback position through experimentation.

2. Make Darryl Bevel interim head coach. Why? Why not. Somebody's gotta do it. You also have an abundance of want-to-be offensive play callers, so one less of these egos micromanaging play calling during a game can't cause any more harm now that we have hit rock bottom.

3. Waive Bryant McKinnie. Your left offensive tackle run blocks on passing plays and pass blocks on running plays. Defenses can line up two players on him and have a 65% certainty that one of them will make the tackle. In my opinion, he has provided a detrimental influence on your second year right offensive tackle, Phil Loadholt. Need I remind you of McKinnie's immature behavior at last year's Pro Bowl?

4. Fire your VP - Player Personnel. Bringing back Randy Moss rests on the head of this "genius." That little act of desperation crushed any respect that existed between the coaching staff and the players. He also spearheaded trading Sage Rosenfels to the Giants. Rosenfels was the tenuous tethercord between Childress, Bevel and Favre. Look at this year and see how well that has worked without Rosenfels.