Repossessed

In a new What The Fuck are they thinking moment I was watching Spike (A Few Good Men was on) and saw a commercial for a new game show.  It’s called Repo Games, where two big imposing men go around and prepare to reposes someones car but in the TV twist if the person can answer five questions then they will pay off their car.  Now seeing as the show hasn’t been aired yet I cannot say how hard the questions will be, they could be Jeopardy level questions, though I highly doubt that level of sophistication as we are talking about people on the verge of getting their vehicles repossessed, so I’m guessing Celebrity Jeopardy.  While I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the rest of my hedonistic brethren and I know this is the best reality show since Cheaters.  Why you ask, well that is because instead of the host getting stabbed

Who would have suspected?

someone is going to pull a gun on these guys.  This isn’t going to be a celebrity rehab, biggest loser thing where terrible, but harmless people are subject to situations to see how they will lose it these are people who are losing their car, and likely have nothing to lose.  There will be no gracious losers “Oh I’m sorry Ole Bean, guess my driver will have to take the Bently now”

Or perhaps I'll have the butlers carry me

In short I’m going to watch this show not for the trivia, or the despair on the faces of the losers but because one of these guys is totally getting shot.

 

Being a Christian Doesn’t make you a good person, Being a Liberal Atheist doesn’t make you a open minded person

Now I know what you’re thinking, “Well duh Ben, everyone knows that.  Clearly those (insert other group) people aren’t as great as they think they are and need to realize how bad of people they actually are.”  Odds are you know someone who fits the description in the title, who uses some ideological argument to prove a point about their personality the problem is recognizing the hypocrisy in your own group.  It speaks to a larger gap in logic because we surround ourselves with people who think like us, you join the College Dems, start going to a Life Group, go to the Open Grove, or whatever the hell they are calling the Atheist club nowadays.  We enjoy these intellectual circle jerks where we only place ourselves around ideas that we agree with, or the ideas we don’t like presented  as foolish in a “Today lets discuss X, now we all know (people we disagree with) dont like X, so lets talk about why X is great.”  I’ve encountered that format dozens of times, and I’m sure you have too, though you may have never thought about it as a bad thing.

I’ve enjoyed listening to conversations for a long time and one thing I love is sitting down and observing while groups meet.  I’ve seen this issue with my conservative friends, at a very interesting lunch where I was ambushed by the college dems, at parties, at church.  Listening to people you agree with make slight variations on your own beliefs doesn’t make you open minded.  Arguing against people who pretend to disagree with you so you can all see how smart you collectively are is absurd.  So please take a moment and think about the last time you had an adult conversation about something you feel strongly about with someone you disagree with that didn’t devolve into name calling, both of you bringing up an argument the other had no good counter for and you both walked away thinking you won, or making a girl cry.  Because let’s be honest, most people have no idea what they are talking about.

 

It Starts

So I was recently reading CMLife, a terrifying prospect I know, and I came across an article that was too funny to keep to myself. http://www.cm-life.com/2011/04/13/increase-in-marijuana-alcohol-violations-at-central-michigan-university/ To sum this article up there have been more minors caught in possession of Marijuana so far this year than all of last year.  The blame is lain on the ambiguity of the Michigan Medical Marijuana law, but in reality I’m willing to guess that most of these people never bothered to actually read the law, ambiguous or no, as was the case when I spoke to people at the election when the law was made.  Only myself and one other guy had read the actual bill and we were surrounded by 18 year olds one of whom actually replied to my question about who’d read Prop 2 with “Marijuana, YEAH!” and I’m assuming these are the people the article is about.  If you look at what the people interviewed are saying it seems like they can’t understand how stupid these people are.  My roommate has a medical marijuana license is about as convincing an argument as saying i can get drunk because my roommate is 21.  And while I by no means have any pity for these kids who are getting caught I feel this is exactly what happens when 18 year olds are allowed to vote, they don’t read and don’t understand and are now getting into trouble for breaking.  Ignorance begets more ignorance.