First Blog in August of 2012
This week we are going to talk about The Olympics and Mitt Romney's questionable tax practices.
Welcome to another fun week in Bogworld. You got three new cartoons last week. I have not been able to do that in a long time. I love drawing toons. I hope you know if I had my druthers I would be drawing cartoons and writing books all day long. But instead I sell computers and run projectors most hours of any given day. Maybe someday this will start paying some bills and I can be a full time creative person. Someday.
I’ve been watching a lot of the Olympics lately. And there is one message that seems to keep creeping through all the hype and the hubbub. America is so much better when we shut up and work together towards our goals.
What’s more, every time one of the annoying NBC sports commentators says something stupid like “America has this one won before the match even begins.” You can almost bet that’s when the Olympian is going to falter or some other upstart competitor comes out of nowhere to win the race, or the match or the game.
Why is that? Well in my opinion its a symptom of what’s wrong with America. Or at least some of our attitudes. Its the expectation that we will win simply because we’re America or simply because we have won this particular competition in the past.
Lets use the US girls gymnastic team as an example. On the first night of the competition we were all focused on Jordyn Wieber not making the individual all around part of the competition. She was in tears while NBCs cameras waited for her to regain composure. Oh the outrage over how she deserved to be in that part of the competition and how the rules were keeping one of the best gymnasts from competing. The rules. If it were not for that rule. Umm. Its a rule. She did not make it. Its a shame, but the whole debate about how that rule should be changed was nonsense. Someone on that team was going to be cut. We knew that before the meet. But NBC had to make a big stink about it. Blah blah blah.
The next night, working as a perfect little team, Jordyn led the American girls to team gold. It was a wonderful moment. Probably one of the best moments of the games so far. Why? Because it was unselfish. It was a young woman putting her own emotions aside to help her teammates become the best team of gymnasts in the Olympics. Not taking anything away from Gabby Douglas who won overall individual gold later. But the team gold was a perfect moment we as a county can all learn from.
Americans are better when we put our shit aside and work together. In fact we can do anything if we actually figured this out more often.
In other news there is a controversy brewing over Mitt Romney’s refusal to release his tax records from the last ten years. Senator Harry Reid came out of nowhere this past week to claim he has inside information that says Romney did not pay taxes during those ten missing years and that’s why he is not releasing his tax returns. Even I thought this was probably an odd bit of unsubstantiated bluster coming from Reid until I saw this report coming from Rachel Maddow who put the whole thing in a new perspective... maybe there is fire where there is smoke. Check out Maddows report here...
CLICKL HERE
I’ve been watching a lot of the Olympics lately. And there is one message that seems to keep creeping through all the hype and the hubbub. America is so much better when we shut up and work together towards our goals.
What’s more, every time one of the annoying NBC sports commentators says something stupid like “America has this one won before the match even begins.” You can almost bet that’s when the Olympian is going to falter or some other upstart competitor comes out of nowhere to win the race, or the match or the game.
Why is that? Well in my opinion its a symptom of what’s wrong with America. Or at least some of our attitudes. Its the expectation that we will win simply because we’re America or simply because we have won this particular competition in the past.
Lets use the US girls gymnastic team as an example. On the first night of the competition we were all focused on Jordyn Wieber not making the individual all around part of the competition. She was in tears while NBCs cameras waited for her to regain composure. Oh the outrage over how she deserved to be in that part of the competition and how the rules were keeping one of the best gymnasts from competing. The rules. If it were not for that rule. Umm. Its a rule. She did not make it. Its a shame, but the whole debate about how that rule should be changed was nonsense. Someone on that team was going to be cut. We knew that before the meet. But NBC had to make a big stink about it. Blah blah blah.
The next night, working as a perfect little team, Jordyn led the American girls to team gold. It was a wonderful moment. Probably one of the best moments of the games so far. Why? Because it was unselfish. It was a young woman putting her own emotions aside to help her teammates become the best team of gymnasts in the Olympics. Not taking anything away from Gabby Douglas who won overall individual gold later. But the team gold was a perfect moment we as a county can all learn from.
Americans are better when we put our shit aside and work together. In fact we can do anything if we actually figured this out more often.
In other news there is a controversy brewing over Mitt Romney’s refusal to release his tax records from the last ten years. Senator Harry Reid came out of nowhere this past week to claim he has inside information that says Romney did not pay taxes during those ten missing years and that’s why he is not releasing his tax returns. Even I thought this was probably an odd bit of unsubstantiated bluster coming from Reid until I saw this report coming from Rachel Maddow who put the whole thing in a new perspective... maybe there is fire where there is smoke. Check out Maddows report here...
CLICKL HERE