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Comment Archive 19
The posts below were made from October 12, 2004 to November 13, 2004.
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Name: geoff
Subject: Beer critique [last post]
"No, I don't think the popularity of Bud is all "due to
marketing". I think it's due to the failure of most people to advance beyond
what is handed to them as kids. The same reason they stick with
religion."
Jason, that is one of the most sublimely brilliant things I have ever
read. I'm serious.
Personally, I'm a Yuengling guy.
Editor's Note: I wish I could say that was all me, but I can't. I made the connection with beer, but I think I noticed the general point being made first by Michael Hurd. Whoever it was, the point was that the more complex an issue, the more dependent on one's parents most people are for their ideas. It was stated that people are more likely to make their own decisions about which car to buy than they are about their choice of religion (or lack thereof). In my experience, though, people are influenced by their parents in pretty trivial ways, too. Yueng fucking ling, baby. (JR)
November 13, 2004 at 20:35:58
Name: Rich Goetsch
Subject: Day Fresh Bud
You are an idiot.
Say what you want about the largest selling beer in the world's
taste. You can choose not to like it if you wish...that is your right.
Obviously you are in the minority. Consumers choose to drink it; I am
certian that you believe that is strictly due to marketing. You obviously
have no faith in the human race to think for themselves, but hat is
another issue. As any brewer can tell you, the main contributing factor
to beer spoilage in any beer not plauged with microbiological infection
(there are more out there than you might think) is oxidation. Dissolved
oxygen at any signifigant level will cause a beer to have a dull mouth
feel and a distinct cardboard or papery taste. While it is the goal to
eliminate air inclusion all togehther, it is improbable to achieve no
air inclusion in a modern packaging invironment (impossible for
microbrewers). The time the package will maintain its true flavor is dependant
on the amount of air inclusion and time it is on the shelf. Budweiser
is using it's unparralled resources and distribution network to do what
no other brewer can. What ever beer you do drink has a code that is
tough to break. The point of there packaging is to keep the age of the
product from the consumer while Bud wants you to know how old it is and
why it makes a difference. ..they are trying to educate you about your
product It's up to you to make the chioce.
Editor's Note: This moment of anal, corporate-speak, Anheuser-Busch party line brought to you by Rich Goetsch. You sound like one of Saddam's nuclear scientists, putting your brain to use for evil. No, I don't think the popularity of Bud is all "due to marketing". I think it's due to the failure of most people to advance beyond what is handed to them as kids. The same reason they stick with religion. (JR)
November 12, 2004 at 10:26:03
Name: Doug
E-mail: dhaze048@uottawa.ca
Subject: Music Selections
Jason,
Something you wrote awhile ago introduced me to Aimee Mann, so I went
out and bought "I'm With Stupid" which I throughly enjoyed. Same thing
happened with Longwave.(though their recent EP was a sackfull of crap)
Let me recommend Juliana Hatfield's "Beautiful Creature", and Martina
Sorbara's "The Cure for Bad Deeds", since you like Ms. Mann so much.
I have the Rancid's self-titled album. It's pop-punk gone death metal.
You might not like it.
Finally, I recommend Sloan's "Twice Removed":
"Here's my photo dedicace/one of you would be canon/I worship all your
handsome words, to me you seem giant/" Sloan, "Penpals"
Thanks for having excellent taste in music, my Profs could learn a
thing or too.
Editor's Note: Thanks, I will check those out. I need new sources for music. Hopefully Sirius will have them when I subscribe to hear Howard Stern. (JR)
November 11, 2004 at 21:10:01
Name: Gene Super
E-mail: gene_super@yahoo.com
Subject: One more fun thing to do in a supermarket
Load a cartful of white bread and powdered milk and try to pay
for it in roubles while wearing a ring of toilet paper rolls around
your neck and speaking in Russian. When the cashier refuses to accept
foreign currency, take your shoe off and bang on the cashier counter
yelling Russian obsceneties.
Your 44 Fun Things To Do In A Supermarket bit was awesome. Rock on!
Editor's Note: Hey, only Russians are allowed to make these kind of jokes. Oh, wait, you're excused. (JR)
November 11, 2004 at 09:45:36
Name: Tom D
E-mail: dimpyra@yahoo.com
Subject: Supermakret Fun
Brilliant.
I have been using one similar to number 2 though for sometime. Tell me
what you think.
Walk into a drug store and purchase a plunger, vaseline, rubber gloves,
tabasco sauce, and a lightbulb. Make sure you ask where the nearest
pet store is as well.
Editor's Note: Do you think asking for "those little round Band-Aids" would be too obvious? (JR)
November 11, 2004 at 09:33:38
Name: Lex
Subject: WTF
I am so angered by the current condition. Maybe I''m flogging
a dead horse, but the perpetuation of class divide, gender inequality
and poverty for the the benefit of a select few is aesphixiating. We
need to stop the bull, we need to reevaluate our priorities, we need to
stop hurting others, we need to care about each other. Morality needs to
become something of value, and coexistence needs to happen, now.
Editor's Note: I recommend that you look at the world and do your own thinking, rather than only thinking about someone else's thinking or regurgitating your emotions. You sound way too rehearsed. (JR)
November 10, 2004 at 23:20:23
Name: Dani
E-mail: danniscorpo@hotmail.com
Subject: reality tv
I am doing a report for college on reality shows and if
people actually do think that these shows are "real." why do people seem to
find these shows so "innately engaging?" do you think this is a
representation of our society? nice article by the way...
Dani
Editor's Note: Amongst reality TV fans, there are the good and the bad. The good ones like to watch people dealing with obstacles (and enjoying seeing the justice of good people succeeding and bad ones failing), and the bad ones probably like seeing that other people have even worse flaws than they do. To say that reality TV itself is entirely good or bad is like saying that all movies are good or bad. Glad you liked the article. (JR)
November 10, 2004 at 16:47:52
Name: Ben
Subject: sexual genetalia
Hey,
I don't really care, but I wanted to mention that your writing is
awesome! Well, not really, but what's the problem with complementing
someone else? Do people have to be so cynical as to get angry over someone
complementing someone else? I know that the statement "that girl has a
nice ass" by another girl is not directed at the girl with the nice
ass, but what's wrong with her saying that? I just wanted to say that.
Oh, also, breasts are not "sexual genetalia", and niether are asses.
Society has put those labels on them, and it's plain to see that you're
just another hop-along follow-monkey doing what the good old vision box
is telling you to do.. dumbass. Think for yourself for once, and
instead of getting angry with the girl making what you would term a "lesbian
comment", simply add your comment or say nothing at all. Who cares?
Editor's Note: I'll try to be tactful. You dumb fuck. By the end of that piece, I showed an understanding of why some women may say those type of comments. Aren't you familiar with the process of thinking? Evidently, not, since you can't seem to comprehend that human beings have discovered an additional utility for breasts beyond being sucked on by infants.(JR)
November 8, 2004 at 19:44:07
Name: Dan G.
Subject: The 45th thing
You forgot the oldie but goodie canned goods bowling. 1
pyramid of cans + 1 can to roll = hours (if uncaught) of fun.
Editor's Note: I feel hurt. Do you really think I forgot that one? (JR)
November 6, 2004 at 17:37:22
Name: Erik
Subject: dmv....
Damn, you must have went to the DMV I go to..... Or maybe they are all operating with the same type of stupid people and require an exam for employment where no one can score higher than a 75% to be eligible to work there. The article made me laugh though. It made my day.
Editor's Note: That's the beauty of the DMV: the universality of the idiocy. Kind of like a poem about love lost. (JR)
November 6, 2004 17:46:17
Name: Raoul Duke
Subject: Reason versus Cunt
It has to be difficult trying to be funny, serious and filty
all at the same time. I think you should use your "reasoning" less, and
used the words fucking cunt more, way more.
Editor's Note: No, actually it comes pretty easy for me. (JR)
November 5, 2004 at 15:22:07
Name: From: The Pussies
Subject: To: Dumbass
Why dont you go to Iraq and then we will talk. Have fun protecting the oil.
Editor's Note: You seem to be confused. You're confusing oil with people standing on the ledges of burning buildings and jumping. I know it's easy to get those things mixed up. (JR)
November 5, 2004 at 12:01:27
Name: Nemo
Subject: no subject
Stop dissing Kerry! What did he ever do to you!!? I for one think many of his ideas are great! and that Bush puts his religion into to many public speeches! God doesn't belong in Politics!!!! Stop the war!! Let gays get married!! And leave God out of it!!! A few other people agree with me, and we all find it offensive to have to here about God in politics!! God belongs in Christian/Catholic churches!!! And what about us Pagans, the Buddhists, the Atheists!!? Don't we matter!? GGRRRRRR!!
Angrily Yours,
~Nemo~ <----(Yes thats my real name!)
Editor's Note: I don't find God offensive, just stupid. (JR)
November 4, 2004 09:19:25
Name: Ryan
Subject: Crap
You are a retard, aren't you?
Editor's Note: Hey, I'm not the one searching all over the Web for crap. (JR)
November 4, 2004 at 06:28:44
Name: Aisha Syed
E-mail: hotsxyelbow@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: The Inevitable Fahrenheit 9/11
[Long, boring post]
November 3, 2004 at 22:51:51
Name: fartherfuther
E-mail: krillingbird@yahoo.com
Subject: to the obvious kerry hater
Read your idiot "Kerry Concession Speech" thing, found no use
in it at all, if it had been a newspaper, I'd have used it for the
bottom of a birdcage.
It is obvious that you are one of the good old Repub suck-up dips out
there who would prefer to have a LIAR like Bush as president and who
can't make a public speech without making STUPID faces...damn, his
expressions are far worse than good old Ronnie any day.
Apparently there were plenty of people who believed in what Kerry stood
for, so I do suppose you are calling all of us a bunch of damned morons
too, right? The ones that voted for Kerry did so with courage and
honesty, feeling that what we had, in Bush and his ilk was bullshit. Tired
of the lies, tied of the double-talk and the whole falseness of what
Bush stands for.
Four more years of Bush? I'd prefer to have Reagon crawl out of the
grave and give us four more years of his own numbnut style of government,
than to have a liar like Bush in office for four more years.
Editor's Note: I can take facial expressions and lies. It's bending over and taking hijacked airplanes up the ass that I have a problem with. (JR)
November 3, 2004 at 20:02:04
Name: Dan Falls
E-mail: ldfalls@msn.com
Subject: Scoreboard
Hey Jason,
Looks like you weren't able to vote Bush out of office after all. Look at the scoreboard dude. A 4 million point popular vote margin is pretty substantial.
It fortunate that fringe voices like yourself and Michael Moore weren't able to influence the sound thinking people of this nation.
Enjoy the next four years of your life big guy.
Sincerely,
Your worst nightmare
Editor's Note: Don't you know that the best thing you could say to fringe voices like myself is to accuse me of doing the opposite of what I did? And by the way, I've had much worse nightmares. The all-time worst might have been when a retarded child teleported himself into my stomach. (JR)
November 3, 2004 17:22:36
Name: Robert
Subject: Kerry article
whoever wrote this is a goddamned motherfucking bush-loving bastard!
Editor's Note: Maybe. Or maybe just a goddamned motherfucking Kerry-hating bastard. (JR)
November 3, 2004 at 13:57:24
Name: Scoop
E-mail: vze326p4@verizon.net
Subject: your column on the 816 words
You have great passion and great talent--a great combination
that you have used effectively to highlight the incongruities of
Kerry's heated and often incomprehensible rhetoric. In Greek mythology,
Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy with a twist: even though she
correctly predicted coming events, the twist was that no one would believe
her and by corrollary no one would care. I say, thank you for making me
want to care. God Bless the Republic!!
Editor's Note: Thank you, but I believe John Kerry deserves your praise. (JR)
November 3, 2004 at 11:35:15
Name: unknown
Subject: stupid
you are stupid to even think that
Editor's Note: Someone ought to do a study of people who take the time to voice opinions that are completely absent of thought. It's an interesting phenomenon. Actually, no, it isn't. (JR)
November 1, 2004 at 15:46:52
Name: J.
Subject: Depravity Rankings
What if you support dictatorship, organize gulags, and direct
the slaughter thousands of political dissenters while engaging in
martyrdom fantasies? I guess then you'd have your portrait printed on
T-shirts sported by 1000s of Americans who claim to be for peace and
freedom. Viva la Che Guevara!
People fucking suck.
Editor's Note: "I love mankind. It's people I can't stand." I just heard this one quoted by Gill Grissom on CSI. "Einstein?" he was asked. Nope, Linus of the Peanuts characters. By the way, I'm completely hooked on this show. The DVDs, that is. I guess I'm only a few years behind the times. (JR)
October 25, 2004 at 05:32:50
Name: Michael Spitler
Subject: Taco Bell
As a Taco Bell employee (hopefully not for much longer) I
have to say that was funny as hell. If only people at my taco bell would
do their jobs, let alone work together. There is this one chick who
flirts with guys all the time and stands around doing nothing when the
managers aren't looking, there is this fat guy who screws around and
fucks orders up, and like 80 percent of the employees are hmong and gossip
about people in their language constantly, and seem to be having
another baby every other week or so.
And the customers, well, more than half are ok, but we get so much
white trash it's beyond belief, and none of them bother to flush the damn
toilets. I have become the designated toilet flusher/declogger. One
day some stupid brat from one of the local schools shit on the mens room
floor. Good thing I wasn't working at that time, however I did once
have to clean a urinal that some guy shit in. I swear if I have to do
that ever again I am going to blow up a fucking building.
Editor's Note: On the positive (and admittedly, unfunny) side, have you ever been to a fast food restaurant and seen someone who takes their job very seriously? At that moment, every stereotype goes down the drain and you (at least, I) think: this is America, goddammit. We fucking rule. I don't care if you clean toilets or design rockets. If you take pride in yourself and your job, you're ok in my book. (JR)
October 22, 2004 at 01:42:54
Name: Jennifer
E-mail: iflucyfell2@aol.com
Subject: Your sense of humor
Jason Roth, feel free to marry or e-mail me anytime (or
both). Your sense of humor is esoterically great.
Editor's Note: And your marriage proposal is arcanely cool. (JR)
October 21, 2004 at 21:16:55
Name: David Buchner
E-mail: buchner@wcta.net
Website: customer.wcta.net/buchner
Subject: Fahrenheit 9/11
Hey, speaking of ripping the title off from Ray Bradbury --
did you catch any of old Ray's response? He was great: he was really
pissed off, and he kept refusing to comment on the politics, and kept just
insisting that Moore had stolen his property (the title), and he wanted
his property back.
Editor's Note: Yep, saw him on Dennis Miller's show. Maybe it was just the particular appearance, but I felt bad that he had to be the lone voice defending his title. (JR)
October 15, 2004 at 15:13:11
Name: Jonathan Rickner
E-mail: jrickner@gmail.com
Subject: The Inevitable Fahrenheit 9/11 Review
First off, let me say that I totally agree with your
assessment of F 9/11. I just wanted to discuss and perhaps clarify one issue
you might have. You wrote:
"It always bothered me that the bin Laden family members were allowed
to leave the country so soon after September 11."
I can understand why people may question this. As a former military
intelligence soldier in the US Army, I had to learn a lot about Osama bin
Laden while stationed in Dharan immediately after the Khobar Towers
were bombed.
Here are the facts that would cause the people that the US government
hires to protect us to let Osama's family go.
1. The bin Laden family owns the largest construction company in the
Middle East. They developed their huge fortune by gaining favor with the
Saudi royal family and being granted contracts for the restoration of
Mecca. From there, they gained a lot of prestige. All the rich sheiks
wanted their buildings to be built by the company that re-built Mecca. A
corporation of this size and influence is bound to have business in the
US and arabic peoples are known for their nepotism.
2. The bin Laden family is HUGE. Osama has 53 brothers and sisters, and
this family has the wealth to afford multiple wives for each of its
sons. "Family members" could mean people who have never seen Osama in
their lives.
3. The bin Laden family publicly disowned Osama bin Laden in 1994,
shortly before the Saudi Arabian government revoked his citizenship, and
several years before the September 11, 2001 attacks. While there are some
relatives that maintain ties with Osama (his mother is one), it is
frowned upon and the Saudi government watches those relatives very closely.
4. The vast majority of the bin Laden family did not have the same
religious schooling as Osama and do not share his political and
philosophical views. Most are more westernized than the rest of the Saudi
population.
In my opinion, letting them go was for their safety. The average
American wouldn't have understood that a nephew, cousin, or half-brother of
Osama has very little to do with terrorism.
Editor's Note: Interesting, and thanks for the information. I have to say, though, that it still sounds suspicious. I don't know why they weren't at least interviewed. (JR)
October 13, 2004 at 14:15:36
Name: Doug
E-mail: dhaze048@uottawa.ca
Subject: Recent Election Article
Have you read, "Opposing Platonic Conservatism: A Matter of
Values" by John Lewis?
It's an excellent read and more compelling than Craig Biddle's
emotionalist outburst on why he will vote for Kerry.
Anyway, I'm not convinced of Lewis's gloom and doom concept-switching
idea. His points are valid, but I don't see how four more years of Bush
are going to change America's sense of life into a package deal of
freedom and slavery. It would take longer than that.
By the way, Orangina doesn't taste like piss. It's an acquired taste,
much like baking soda toothpaste or dog biscuits. So what if it tastes
more like rinds than the actual orange?! I'll even drink some right
now...
...
...
*vomits*
Editor's Note: I just read it. It seems like essentially the same argument, only more intellectual. The problem with the argument is that you can't have arguments about principle if you're dead. Bush will likely take action against terrorism which Kerry won't. No one's saying Bush is great (no one rational, anyway), we're just saying he will provide tangible benefits to American security that Kerry will not. Harry Binswanger makes an excellent case that I agree with. (JR)
October 12, 2004 at 17:45:40
Name: uppedmod
Subject: good to see you back
Good to see you back. I've been checking the site every day
for over a week. Keep it up.
Editor's Note: I guess it's ironic that I'm posting your comment 10 days late. Thanks, that's good to hear. (JR)
October 12, 2004 at 07:01:52
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