implicit Imperialist April 16, 2007

I’ve always considered myself to be somewhat intelligent. If nothing more, certainly less simple than your average sheep. I wish I could respect the following subject or the institution from which it came. Any sort of test like this leaves so much to the author’s imagination of the way the world is from his/her broad… or grossly limited perspective. Liken it to the Stanford IQ test. Useless to all – period!

On that test I scored “superior to average” in 10 minutes time on a 30 minute test. I’m impatient and do not “go back” to questions that I didn’t know the answers to.  So, with that – and $9.75 I could get a Starbuck’s Latte.

I took this absurd racial test three times. They all three placed me in the “slight preference to white people to black people”.

Duh!! I’m Kilz primer white inside and out. At one point while taking the test – I was making a dry martini stirred not bruised with one Queen olive and one Holland onion served straight up poured from a fabulous 1930’s art deco shaker … simultaneously scratching my balls and just simply picked what I was forced to pick to keep the nonsensical test moving forward.

Still, I rated the same as if I were paying close attention. This ignorant sort of bull shit always surfaces when there is any sort of scandalous firestorm of Ho’s and nappyness – like with Imus, created by some… well, several… Malcolm X wannabies coke headed hate mongering racist perpetuatin’ cheatin’, outa wedlock breedin’ & sinnin’ with filthy assed nappy headed Ho’s posing as good ol’ boy God fearing reverends of the church of what the fuck B happenin’ now!

Anyway, take the fatuous test if you have five minutes to burn. Drunk & disorderly, at church Sunday morn, on your Blackberry, eating blackberry pie, whatever… the results shall be the same. And therefore is as useless as any other test based on chance. A spin at the roulette table is sure to hold a better return. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html 

later Nappys

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She’s not nearly as filthy as she looks. 

Chronic Chronicle April 12, 2007

I recently read an article on the “top 30” daily news papers in the country. I was disappointed to see that our Houston Chronicle was on the list at all. Since the Houston Post bellied up years ago after being bought by a New York company and lost many of its readers, it was sold to the Chronicle. So since there is no competition, why the hell bother with publishing a decent quality, interesting daily rag… in the true sense of the word. The National Inquirer offers better edited content.

And for the home delivery of this or any paper, what’s the point. I mean, the young men cold sale soliciting the paper have resorted to literally begging me to buy a six month subscription or any of their packages. I’ve been told “I’m a struggling college student”, I need one more six month sale today to win a trip to Tahiti”, even “please man, I have a baby and we’ve been really hungry”. I get less harassment at the corner of ‘walk and don’t walk’ by the panhandlers.  He seemed like I was from Mars when I simply said that I read the Chronicle when I feel like it – when I’m bored – for free on my computer screen.

I did mention that the only disadvantage to not receiving the physical paper version is that I have nothing else to pick up the dog shit in my yard with; my car’s windows have been ridden with lint since having to use paper towels for cleaning them and my local fish monger has nothing to wrap his fish in. My second to last suggestion I offered the young man was to find a new profession. I simply said to him that life has changed in the home delivery business unless he had a pizza or Sesame Chicken; and that perhaps he’d bode a better paycheck in that arena. As he left my stoop, I lastly recommended that he not major in business marketing – then I promptly dug out and posted that NO SCOLICITING sign by my door bell. Not that that will help.

Here’s the top 30 list, for what it’s worth:

Brand or Channel, Unique Audience (000), Web Page Views (000), Time per Person (hh:mm:ss) NYTimes.com: 12,960 — 455,527 — 0:37:09
USATODAY.com: 9,050 — 169,517 — 0:22:08
Washingtonpost.com: 8,030 — 154,836 — 0:20:28
LA Times: 4,546 — 50,986 — 0:12:08
Wall Street Journal Online: 3,436 — 42,067 — 0:15:50
The Houston Chronicle: 3,292 — 93,737 — 0:20:44
SFGate.com: 3,236 — 51,617 — 0:14:56
Boston.com: 3,197 — 57,154 — 0:20:56
Chicago Tribune: 2,973 — 45,283 — 0:13:44
New York Post: 2,684 — 31,335 — 0:09:01
Daily News Online Edition: 2,555 — 9,754 — 0:05:04
Chicago Sun-Times: 2,142 — 14,804 — 0:08:13
Orlando Sentinel: 2,049 — 16,914 — 0:06:21
Newsday: 2,047 — 20,336 — 0:05:13
MercuryNews.com: 1,950 — 9,577 — 0:04:42
Azcentral.com: 1,858 — 19,587 — 0:08:48
The Seattle Times: 1,810 — 18,649 — 0:09:19
The San Diego Union-Tribune: 1,699 — 8,869 — 0:04:58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 1,698 — 13,006 — 0:06:48
International Herald Tribune: 1,685 — 3,201 — 0:02:23
MiamiHerald.com: 1,644 — 16,476 — 0:11:54
Sun-Sentinel: 1,630 — 23,437 — 0:10:52
The Washington Times: 1,607 — 6,224 — 0:04:15
Ottaway Newspapers: 1,557 — 12,862 — 0:06:00
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 1,429 — 54,994 — 0:31:29
Star Tribune: 1,385 — 24,944 — 0:23:32
Village Voice Media: 1,377 — 5,205 — 0:04:07
DallasNews.com: 1,358 — 17,174 — 0:08:10
The Detroit News: 1,273 — 16,839 — 0:12:34
Philly.com: 1,243 — 21,785 — 0:17:32E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)

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