The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

As I said in my previous post, I had a bit of fun on Twitter last night with the (then) trending hashtag #Likely2016Headlines. Well, I came to find out this morning I got mentioned on the UK websites The Telegraph and Independent  for one of my tweet, "Fox News airs a new show called 'What Women Really Want,' hosted by five guys #Likely2016Headlines" The articles can be viewed at the following two links:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12076221/Leo-to-win-an-Oscar-Twitter-predicts-the-headlines-we-could-see-in-2016.html and http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/people-are-predicting-2016-headlines-and-its-a-dystopian-nightmare--WJoiOwdiie If you've yet to check out my Twitter page and/or haven't started "following" me on there, it can be viewed here: https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki

I was quite stunned to see a headline in The Telegraph , which said, "All men watch porn, scientists find," largely because I don't watch porn. I don't necessarily have anything against it, but given the fact I'm a man (last time I checked) and don't watch porn, to say I was puzzled by the headline would have been like to say blue whales are large. So, since the headline couldn't have been accurate, what was it based on exactly? Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse, who was a researcher in the study, said, "We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography. We couldn't find any." So, in other words, since these adult men had viewed pornography at least once in their lifetimes, that obviously means all men view porn. I'm sorry, but that assessment is so ridiculous, I have to double-check to make sure this isn't an article posted on The Onion . ::double-checks:: Nope - it looks like the real deal... ...

I read an article this morning which made me wonder if we were celebrating April Fool's Day and not Labor Day today in this country. The article came by way of conservative political commentator Nile Gardiner of The Telegraph , and was titled, "Barack Obama is proving an embarrassing amateur on the world stage compared to George W. Bush." In the article, Gardiner wrote the following: "George W. Bush was widely mocked by the Left during the Iraq War, with liberals jeering at the 'coalition of the willing,' which included in its ranks some minnows such as Moldova and Kazkhstan. ... But the coalition also contained, as I pointed out in Congressional testimony back in 2007, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, and 16 members of the NATO alliance, as well as Japan and South Korea. In Europe, France and Germany were the only large-scale countries that sat the war out, with 12 of the 25 members of the European Union represented. The coalition, swelled...