For What It's Worth

Not much to say today from me, but here are some links for you to look at.


Business and Sports: I told them if anyone even mentioned our win-loss record (we were 9-23 at the time), they were fired on the spot.
- from "How to Win Fans and Influence People" by Mark Cuban, click HERE.

War and Sports: Wartime Super Bowls are always dismal and lame -- if they happen at all -- due to "tragic National Security disasters that we cannot, of course, disclose to you at this time, because of etc, etc, etc."…. Alas, I know that story well.
- from "The last Super Bowl" by Hunter S. Thompson, click HERE.

Media and Sports: Thurman Thomas, playing his fourth straight Super Bowl in 1994, was probably being serious when, to a reporter's query about how he got psyched up for big games, he responded that he "reads the newspaper and looks at the stupid questions you all ask."
- from "Now That's a Stupid Question" by ESPN's Jeff Merron, click HERE.

Sex and Sports: A few days before Super Bowl XXXIII, Dan Le Batard reported in the Miami Herald that Broncos RB Terrell Davis, like many other NFL players, has no trouble picking up women. And these are true groupies. "A woman got out of bed after spending the night with him last year," wrote Le Batard, "and, standing at attention, gave him his trademark end-zone salute."
- from "Sex goes to the Super Bowl" also by Jeff Merron, click HERE.


Business, War, Media, Sex: Again, as Cleckley says, these people are around and do rise. Women are attracted to them. I mean, this is a defect, but women are attracted to them because they are so confident. They really don't give a fuck what happens – not even to themselves. But this is a serious defect and, no, we haven't been invaded and conquered by Martians. We have been conquered by psychopathic personalities who are attractive.
- a must read interview with Kurt Vonnegut, it covers many areas, just click HERE to see it, courtesy of AlterNet.org.