Kevin Smith, author (of comic books &c.) - comedian - script writer - director (and,
blogger ,
twitterer) and probable a pretty nice guy (John Candy comes to mind) was kicked off a flight because he was considered too wide to fit in a single seat (measured by his ability to lower both arm rests comfortably and still be able to, you know, breathe). Judge for yourself; this image of Kevin Smith at the Hollywood release of
The Simpsons (three years and quite a few Big Macs ago, I'm thinking, so add some mental poundage to this image).
Yeah, I'd just love to sit down in my seat on a long flight to Vegas and have to hear this guy wheezing and moaning because he can't breathe, his ass is becoming numb from being levered into one of those 17" seats, not to mention the duffel bag of Doritos spilling out of his prodigious lap...
Now, I normally wouldn't bring this sort of thing up, but I'm tired of poking fun at politicos right now, and Mr. Obama is beginning to seem a bit more pathetic than usual (a Drudge report headline proclaims a "Shock"
CNN Poll saying a majority of Americans don't think he'll deserve a 2nd term as US President...who knew?), and that, along with this ironic photo of Barack Hussein Obama...
...says to me that I can afford to take some precious blog time to post something different.
Oh, that, and Kevin Smith, instead of slinking back in shame and embarrassment and hitting the treadmill,
runs his mouth at being booted from the flight and brings the wrath of many of his followers down on Southwest (unfairly I think; is it Southwest's fault he stuffed himself with every food item in sight that couldn't crawl away and hide?).
Maybe Southwest feared Smith would eat the pilot.
Well, imagine that! Lefty Professor Surber wants more cash for his mostly self-congratulatory 'profession', and has this huge butthurt that he’s perceived as less useful to a modern, supposedly more 'progressive' society. News Flash! Your are less useful to humanity than any physicist, medical doctor, most scientists, and all astronauts. (Notice I didn't mention lawyers; that profession I think is the lesser of even a weakly-thinking Professor of Guitar... )
Let’s see any of these Liberal Arts academicians do a thing to, say, improve any human’s lifespan or get us closer to Mars. Best they can do is slow us down, as Obama’s done by slashing away at NASA, with demands for socialistic equivalences.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Liberal Arts studies, mind you. Prof. Surber's argument is that he and his oh-so-almighty liberal ilk should be worth more on the open market (is he getting in line for another Obama 'bailout'?). Well, Prof, hard science academes (producers of the ‘good stuff’) vs. you of the fluttery (softer) liberal arts (consumers, mostly) deserve exactly what you are getting: less than those who produce and improve the physical aspects of our market society.
I find you next to useless, Prof. Surber. And worth much less to me than is, say, my dentist.
(Be sure to visit and read Jeff’s first linky to David Thompson, for more.)