Too Typical
Headline: Filmmaker Michael Moore coming to Vanderbilt
Of course he is.
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Tell them how the weather was... -- Ernest Hemingway bryce_martin_1@Lycos.com
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Where Politicians Are Concerned, Apathy Is A Good First Step
By Bryce Martin
It would be humorous if not so tragic.
The fact that we can close post offices, parks, train stations, libraries, and numerous other facilities and programs that we actually have a use for and, in some, find joy, all in the name of not having the money to support them.
Yet, all that money it would take for us to keep those items and others operating is being spent a thousand times fold in billions and billions of dollars sent to countries where the money goes directly into the elite and the dictators' pockets and not to the people and the projects they were meant to aid. Billions more on totally useless, political boondoggles and on and on.
Kicking the bums out will do no good. More bums will just take their place, as always. Let's just not show up and vote. None of us. Sure, offices will be filled, by default if no other way. But that would serve as the warning.
The first warning.
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By Bryce Martin
It would be humorous if not so tragic.
The fact that we can close post offices, parks, train stations, libraries, and numerous other facilities and programs that we actually have a use for and, in some, find joy, all in the name of not having the money to support them.
Yet, all that money it would take for us to keep those items and others operating is being spent a thousand times fold in billions and billions of dollars sent to countries where the money goes directly into the elite and the dictators' pockets and not to the people and the projects they were meant to aid. Billions more on totally useless, political boondoggles and on and on.
Kicking the bums out will do no good. More bums will just take their place, as always. Let's just not show up and vote. None of us. Sure, offices will be filled, by default if no other way. But that would serve as the warning.
The first warning.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Vandy Coach Meets Insanity Definition
You've heard the definition of insanity. Making the same mistake over and over, expecting a different result.
By that definition, Vanderbilt head football coach James Franklin is certifiably insane.
His senior quarterback, Larry Smith, has not completed even 50 percent of his passes in the past two seasons. He has thrown more interceptions than he has touchdowns. When Vandy beat a weak Elon eleven in its season opener, Smith was his usual self.
After the game, Franklin did say he would like to have seen Smith have a better completion rate, as if that was something a little more practice could remedy.
That is insanity.
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You've heard the definition of insanity. Making the same mistake over and over, expecting a different result.
By that definition, Vanderbilt head football coach James Franklin is certifiably insane.
His senior quarterback, Larry Smith, has not completed even 50 percent of his passes in the past two seasons. He has thrown more interceptions than he has touchdowns. When Vandy beat a weak Elon eleven in its season opener, Smith was his usual self.
After the game, Franklin did say he would like to have seen Smith have a better completion rate, as if that was something a little more practice could remedy.
That is insanity.
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Friday, September 09, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Same Old Vandy, Same Old Larry Smith
By Bryce Martin
Sure, Vanderbilt romped over Elon. But it means nothing. They should have, even as Vandy they should have.
The most telling thing about the game for Vandy's prospects this season was not the lopsided win, but the "play" of quarterback Larry Smith. Even against a plushpillow like Elon, Smith was his usual inept self.
In 2009 and in 2010, his completion percentage was under 50 percent. It was not uncommon for him to have games where he passed for less than 100 yards. Against Elon, he was his usual self, completing less than half his passes and racking up a piddly 120 yards in the air.
Remember, this was Elon.
I was pretty much on board with new coach James Franklin until I saw he was starting the season with Smith. I can now see I was wrong to expect much, not with a head coach who is no better judge of talent than he has shown in picking Smith to run his offense.
Same old Vandy? Sure, as long as you have the same old Larry Smith as your quarterback.
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Poor Vanderbilt.
A bunch of future lawyers and doctors trying to play football. No wonder they lose all the time. Right?
Wrong, at Vanderbilt, 35 of 59 football scholarship players surveyed major in one subject: human and organizational development.
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By Bryce Martin
Sure, Vanderbilt romped over Elon. But it means nothing. They should have, even as Vandy they should have.
The most telling thing about the game for Vandy's prospects this season was not the lopsided win, but the "play" of quarterback Larry Smith. Even against a plushpillow like Elon, Smith was his usual inept self.
In 2009 and in 2010, his completion percentage was under 50 percent. It was not uncommon for him to have games where he passed for less than 100 yards. Against Elon, he was his usual self, completing less than half his passes and racking up a piddly 120 yards in the air.
Remember, this was Elon.
I was pretty much on board with new coach James Franklin until I saw he was starting the season with Smith. I can now see I was wrong to expect much, not with a head coach who is no better judge of talent than he has shown in picking Smith to run his offense.
Same old Vandy? Sure, as long as you have the same old Larry Smith as your quarterback.
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Poor Vanderbilt.
A bunch of future lawyers and doctors trying to play football. No wonder they lose all the time. Right?
Wrong, at Vanderbilt, 35 of 59 football scholarship players surveyed major in one subject: human and organizational development.
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Saturday, September 03, 2011
Forget Jerry Lewis, Awready
By Bryce Martin
Jerry Lewis was, and is, an ass, and I imagine at this stage late in his life will remain thus.
The namby-pambies in Hollywood -- those crying over his being dumped as the longtime charity telethon host -- want us to overlook that and have us believe that all his good charity work trumps his nasty behavior over the years to those who have had to work with him.
The fact is, if he had anything going for him resembling a career after the 1960s, he would not have been doing the "charity" work, for which he was paid handsomely.
I'll never forget this from a Los Angeles radio man back in the 60s commenting after reading the news about how much money that very first telethon brought in: "If everyone who doesn't like Jerry Lewis would have sent in a quarter, they would have raised twice as much money."
France hasn't even came to his rescue (Drum roll, please).
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By Bryce Martin
Jerry Lewis was, and is, an ass, and I imagine at this stage late in his life will remain thus.
The namby-pambies in Hollywood -- those crying over his being dumped as the longtime charity telethon host -- want us to overlook that and have us believe that all his good charity work trumps his nasty behavior over the years to those who have had to work with him.
The fact is, if he had anything going for him resembling a career after the 1960s, he would not have been doing the "charity" work, for which he was paid handsomely.
I'll never forget this from a Los Angeles radio man back in the 60s commenting after reading the news about how much money that very first telethon brought in: "If everyone who doesn't like Jerry Lewis would have sent in a quarter, they would have raised twice as much money."
France hasn't even came to his rescue (Drum roll, please).
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