modern life vs. human nature

A good video that will scare you but also give you some good information. It is about chemicals like Bisphenol A that are present in most of the products we use everyday.  The video discusses how these chemicals lower the sperm count of males, and the birthrate of males into the population. In one section they talk about the first legitmate case of dwindling male numbers in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.  I grew up in Sarnia, Ontario Canada in the middle in of one of the largest chemical refinery valleys in the world.  I remember swimming in the St. Clair until they discovered the Sarnia blob that was an underground river of pollution.

On the positive side, it looks like we won’t have to worry about over population.

Enjoy!

So year end is a time to mull through the last year and think about what you liked and didn’t before you go out and ring in the new year to forget about what happened. I had started to compile some sort of list about the past year and the biggest single event for me is still the end of George Bush as president and the fact that the Republicans won’t have a person in office for the next few years.  I have also heard a few people suggest that “Obama isn’t going to save the world!”. Really? Well, I thought he was the second coming of Jesus Christ! No. What I would like to say to those people is STFU! Of course, Obama isn’t going to save the world but there are millions of reasons why having a president that isn’t a complete moron is a good thing.  For those of you who don’t understand politics just watch what happens in the next few years. Sure, the economy is going to tank for awhile and America has lost its dominance in the world but the average person is going to have a chance to survive the next great economic shift; which by the way is from industrialization to technocracy. Just to give you a hint this monkey is trying to figure out how to make money on the internet…

Anyway, here is a short list.

Worst Person of the Year.

The easy winner for Worst Person of the Year is George Bush but he has been the worst of every year of the last eight years and we are going to feel the sting of his idiocy for the next 2-5 years or more so he deserves all the credit.  If there was an “UN-Man of the Year” it would be him.

Best Person of the Year:

On the other hand the easy winner for Best Person of the Year is Barack Obama! He(and his campaign) did it. He organized the most powerful campaign in the history of campaigns in a country that couldn’t decide if it hated women more than black men. I don’t think there needs to be much else said about it except- Good luck!

Character Flaw of the Year:

I have to give it to Greed for an explosive showing in 2008! Greed was happy as a clam in early 2008… but of course it is Greed!… so it had to mess with our heads to the point of a massive economic recession. But really, this has been a work in progress. We’ve been “greeding” ourselves into a fallout for the last 10-15 years, ignoring all signs of collapse by trying to spend our way into Shangri-la.  If our business leaders, politicians, elite CEO’s and stock brokers weren’t so fixed on short term gain we might have had an economy to fall back on in recessionary times. Now because of the massive outsourcing of everything from manufacturing to food we have become a tourist and service economy with fewer tourists and bad services.  Hmmm..don’t you just love capitalism now? The chinese do. There the ones who have government sponsored capitalism(which isn’t really capitalism) but it’s just enough of it to give business owners reason to fire their local workers and buy offshore.  The only problem with the theory is that when all your customers have lost their jobs due to outsourcing then they have no money to buy your products or services. Greed doesn’t like this type of thinking so Greed wins for sin of the year…or decade…you can decide..after you lay off your stock broker.

Application of the Year:

Facebook wins for application of the year and not just because millions of people joined and it crushed MySpace but because it is a really good social tool for one simple reason; it cut my phone bill into little pieces and still kept me in touch with more people than ever.

Fight of the Year:

The Economy vs. The Environment. In the end, the economy won by collapsing so hard and faking us all out, then changing all the rules in mid fight. I mean how many fights are won by an opponent falling down after only a few jabs? The only thing the environment didn’t expect was that almost everyone in the audience found out late in the game that the mafia was outside waiting to break everyone’s legs if the environment won. Lucky for us a whole bunch of stock brokers went through the audience warning everyone mid fight so that we all meekly agreed when they pulled the environment from the fight to save us from our own fear. It’s too bad we still don’t understand that there are more of us in the audience then there are mafiosos outside.

Drug of the Year:

Viagra. I don’t even own a television and I am tired of the ads. “Erectile dysfunction” is the smartest, most ingenius marketing and debilitating affliction to hit mankind since..ahh…well, since the “war on terror”. Fear of a limp member is a serious blow to a baby boomer ego!

Album of the Year:

Santogold (self titled). Realistically how can anyone claim that there is a best album of the year. Music is so subjective that saying any one artist had the best album is pointless. Regardless, I am going to do it because there is so much “crap” out there that some of us need to give the good musicians a few words of encouragement; especially when most of us are downloading music for free these days. Here’s the rub; I don’t listen to the radio or watch tv so my choices have nothing to do with what is popular in the mainstream. Ok,Ok..ok..so i picked Santogold because her songs are good…really good! Good pop songs, good electro songs, good dance songs and the album is new, interesting, funky and takes a few chances; all things I appreciate in an artist. Plus, I think that a lot of people would like this(girls and open minded guys) so I’m really trying to be objective. Case in point, the Raconteurs had a great album as well but I grew up on blues driven rock so it’s a very personal choice. Santogold is a really good listen from start to finish; and she’s no Britney.

Action of the Year:

Downloading. Ummm..due to copyright infringement I can’t really say anything here except… sharing is caring!

Fluid of the Year:

Oil. It’s up. It’s power. It’s polluting. It’s down. It’s money. It’s war. It’s out. It’s peak.

Movie of the Year:

Even though James Bond made a miraculous comeback as a watchable, real character and Iron Man was saved by Robert Downey from being a crappy sci-fi borefest I am going to give the nod to Tropic Thunder. Robert Downey did an amazing job of acting like a messed up hollywood actor that pulls off a great roll and doesn’t know who he is. Jack Black actually lived up to being sort of funny as a supporting actor and Ben Stiller..well, he still acts like himself..a bloated ego, putz who sacrifices cool for retarded. What then put Tropic Thunder over the top was that Tom Cruise saved his career from dropping off a cliff with his performance as a scumbag, movie producer douchbag(oops… two “bags” in one sentence is a grammatical error?)  Tropic Thunder was a hollywood blockbuster that made fun of hollywood blockbusters. In the end, it made us laugh at ourselves and our retarded pop culture.

That’s all folks. Let’s hope 2009 isn’t the depression that the rich, people who own all the money predict it will be. If so, love your loved ones and the fact that we still live on the richest continent in the world…we’ve got to give the others a chance to catch up.

Enjoy!