Things that do and do not rule

Okay, this will be a little lengthy. Consider it my post for the rest of the week. You may want to read it in installments. Warning: some of it is a bit vitriolic and possibly offensive.

I) A new segment: Things that do and do not rule.
Things that rule:
The ad hominem
Jalapeno cheddar hickory links from Kuby's sausage house

Things that do not rule:
SUVs without luggage racks (they look naked, like they showed up for the daily bump and grind with no pants)

i. An expatiation on why the ad hominem rules:
You know, in any debate or intellectual conversation, the ad hominem attack is not recognized as a legitimate response to anything. But it should be. See exhibit A:

Exhibit A: ( a conversation occuring in a room with several people, an "intellectual" conversation, in which Johnson has just presented an argument which may or may not be a bit dubious or have holes in it)

Steve Holt:
Well Johnson, the syllogism you just presented contains two premises. One is completely and inherently apocryphal, the other a circuitous, babbly brook of nonsense. Yes, your dog only has three legs. Yes your dog is animal. But all animals do not therefore have three legs.

(Johnson looks around at everyone and speaks without out looking at Steve, as if for a jury"
Johson:
Gentelemen, Steve Holt is a bastard. He doesn't even know who his father is. What else do we not know about Steve Holt?... False accusations of involvement in the Hitler Youth, the KKK, and Al Quaeda follow.
Does anyone respect Johnson? No. Is everyone laughing? Probably. Did everyone stop thinking about Johnson's untenable position? YES. Victory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

II) A continuation of my last post
In another chapter of Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa puffs, he presents the following idea, which I take no credit for, but which helps prove my point.
A part of us died when the world converted from cassette tapes to CDs. Why? You ask. Well, we started focusing on the small and immediate, and not the artistic whole. You see, with a tape, while theoretically you can fast forward it, you have idea where the next track starts, so you pretty much have to listen to the whole thing. You get a greater sense of the whole. With a CD, you NEVER have to listen to the whole thing. You just (by you I mean many of us, I'm guilty) get hooked on the catchy ones first and then you may go back and listen to the whole thing.
But an album is a lot like a life. You have your parts that are catchy, you have your slow and melodic parts, you have your soporific, weak parts, you have your epic, watershed parts, but it's all part of a whole. And that whole says a definite something. Are lives are spent with some end in mind. This brings me to my next point:

III)to be continued due to it being my bed time and your eyes being tired. More manana.

Nords