This writer, while being a deeply flawed man -- perhaps the most deeply flawed of men -- has always tried to be a gentleman. This has been due to the influence of the late Baron Nib and the still living Baroness Nib.
It was assumed that the actions of those of a lesser moral or legal deign would eventually show themselves to be, by nature, scoundrels or rascals, while those of a higher status (in mein, if not not in finances) would always show themselves to be ladies and gentlemen by their word and action.
The following link shows the difference between the last president and the present:
Bush appears at Fort Worth Christian School fundraiser | Fort Worth | News from Fort Wor...
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
What the Hell?
This past week the odious Los Angeles Time published a piece by one of its sport writer questioning the wisdom of Lindsey Vonn posing for Sports Illustrated in a bikini and whether such photos would advance the cause of slalom skiing in the US.
In the article the man has shown himself to be an idiot.
Professional athletics personalities go into professional athletics for two reasons -- to receive praise and to make money. It is not about being the best, despite what they say. Otherwise they would have careers as engineers, accountants or janitors who participated in sports as a hobby.
Personalities such as Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick are merely making extra money and fame from their physical attributes in fields where men are dominant. Their appealing to their physiques are no more lessening to them as are actresses showing up at the Golden Globe Awards showing their gold globes.
What's the difference between the two? At least the women athletes have put in the work to get their figures instead of paying plastic surgeons.
In the article the man has shown himself to be an idiot.
Professional athletics personalities go into professional athletics for two reasons -- to receive praise and to make money. It is not about being the best, despite what they say. Otherwise they would have careers as engineers, accountants or janitors who participated in sports as a hobby.
Personalities such as Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick are merely making extra money and fame from their physical attributes in fields where men are dominant. Their appealing to their physiques are no more lessening to them as are actresses showing up at the Golden Globe Awards showing their gold globes.
What's the difference between the two? At least the women athletes have put in the work to get their figures instead of paying plastic surgeons.
Golfin'
We here at Nib Manor do not pay much attention to professional athletics, or as they are popularly known, professional sports. We much prefer sports of the amateur variety except for baseball. And truth to tell, we would prefer amateur baseball to the MLB if there were an organized amateur baseball league.
But, life being what it is, we have not been able to avoid the Tiger Woods apology for his moral transgressions. By moral transgressions is meant repeated infidelity to his wife.
Mr. Woods' mea culpa seemed to be a pretty much standard statement of the type written by lawyers and public relations people. Whether or not he was sincere in his statement remains to be seen.
But keep in mind that Mr. Woods, being a pro golfer, will be held up from here on to such examples as Bobby Jones and the British Triumvirate.
Only God knows the sincerity of his statement. And we, here at the Manor, hope that he was being sincere for the sake of his family.
On the other hand, the statement of one of his former mistress (actually, mistress is too nice a word; she was a shack up at the best; no Nell Gwynne here), Jocelyn James (along with her media-whore lawyer Gloria Allred), was surreal for the simple fact that a woman who was a "mistress" would expect her "lover" to be faithful to her instead of his wife or reputation. In other words, she seems to expect a man who cheated with her not to "cheat" on her. And did the reader notice, if the reader saw the video of Ms James' statement on television, that Miss James had shorn her locks to something akin to a bob from long auburn locks? Any man who married a woman while she was wearing long hair can attest that a short hairdo means that the marriage has moved from (in the wife's opinion) from a relationship of companionship and sex to one of only companionship. Miss. James, in her short haircut, is trying to say that her relationship with Woods was more mental than physical. Methinks I see a book coming out by Miss James in about three months.
What the hell has happened to the world?
But, life being what it is, we have not been able to avoid the Tiger Woods apology for his moral transgressions. By moral transgressions is meant repeated infidelity to his wife.
Mr. Woods' mea culpa seemed to be a pretty much standard statement of the type written by lawyers and public relations people. Whether or not he was sincere in his statement remains to be seen.
But keep in mind that Mr. Woods, being a pro golfer, will be held up from here on to such examples as Bobby Jones and the British Triumvirate.
Only God knows the sincerity of his statement. And we, here at the Manor, hope that he was being sincere for the sake of his family.
On the other hand, the statement of one of his former mistress (actually, mistress is too nice a word; she was a shack up at the best; no Nell Gwynne here), Jocelyn James (along with her media-whore lawyer Gloria Allred), was surreal for the simple fact that a woman who was a "mistress" would expect her "lover" to be faithful to her instead of his wife or reputation. In other words, she seems to expect a man who cheated with her not to "cheat" on her. And did the reader notice, if the reader saw the video of Ms James' statement on television, that Miss James had shorn her locks to something akin to a bob from long auburn locks? Any man who married a woman while she was wearing long hair can attest that a short hairdo means that the marriage has moved from (in the wife's opinion) from a relationship of companionship and sex to one of only companionship. Miss. James, in her short haircut, is trying to say that her relationship with Woods was more mental than physical. Methinks I see a book coming out by Miss James in about three months.
What the hell has happened to the world?
Sunday, February 14, 2010
A Good Gotcha
"The French, they are a funny race,
"They fight with their feet and **** with their face."
The above doggerel was popular when this writer was a young lad, and it was meant to express that the French were different than the rest of us; us meaning members of the Anglosphere.
The French, whether right or wrong, seem to value their self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and "philosophers." Consider the fact that the idiotic natterings of Sartre and DeBouvavier were regarded by the average French opinion maker as Gospel, or the fact that a recent foreign minister was appointed to the office because he was a "philosopher" and "poet."
The French, as a nation, seem to have an aversion toward thinkers who are hard-headed realists, and the result is nightly car burnings in Paris and just plain silliness like Johnny Halliday.
In this writer's opinion, the best public thinker in France over the last twenty years has been Brigitte Bardot, who has been repeatedly found guilty of "insulting Islam" for her stance of standing for traditional French culture and preferring hearing church bells on a Sunday morn instead of the caterwauling from a minaret on a Friday afternoon.
Well, this week a French "philosopher" was shown to be a bit of a poseur and dope:
The Associated Press: French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy duped
Life can be sweet.
"They fight with their feet and **** with their face."
The above doggerel was popular when this writer was a young lad, and it was meant to express that the French were different than the rest of us; us meaning members of the Anglosphere.
The French, whether right or wrong, seem to value their self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and "philosophers." Consider the fact that the idiotic natterings of Sartre and DeBouvavier were regarded by the average French opinion maker as Gospel, or the fact that a recent foreign minister was appointed to the office because he was a "philosopher" and "poet."
The French, as a nation, seem to have an aversion toward thinkers who are hard-headed realists, and the result is nightly car burnings in Paris and just plain silliness like Johnny Halliday.
In this writer's opinion, the best public thinker in France over the last twenty years has been Brigitte Bardot, who has been repeatedly found guilty of "insulting Islam" for her stance of standing for traditional French culture and preferring hearing church bells on a Sunday morn instead of the caterwauling from a minaret on a Friday afternoon.
Well, this week a French "philosopher" was shown to be a bit of a poseur and dope:
The Associated Press: French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy duped
Life can be sweet.
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