Lattice of Coincidence: Mike Downey

Monday, May 7, 2007

Mike Downey

What a fucking moron. He gets paid how much to write crap like this?

4 comments:

k-mad said...: This actually comes as a relief. His Sunday column on the Kentucky Derby was vaguely affecting. I was afraid I was getting soft.

Speaking of the Derby, why are we giving SMIFF a free ride for his AWFUL showing?; May 7, 2007 at 11:44 AM
smiff said...: Kentucky Derby? Did a horse win again?

As for Downey, i believe he is a major award winner. Dat's all i need to know.; May 7, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Smiff said...: Doh i would point out dat Dallas was in the finals last year...uh, when was the last time the Cubs were in the World Series, or had the best record in baseball (like Dallas this year).; May 7, 2007 at 12:56 PM
Sarge said...: Wow...that was totally stupid...just like you said.

Look, he's terrible because in a random sample size of seven game series his teams have never made it all the way. They just win a lot of games all the time and give themselves a chance every year...and that's not good enough for the Cubs!

And that phokk! is just so damn arrogant about what he wrote. It's like he took a turd and points at it to people passing by..."look what I did!!!"

Look, indeed.; May 7, 2007 at 11:42 PM

A lotta people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a buncha unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give ya an example, show ya what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, "plate" -- or "shrimp" -- or "plate of shrimp" -- out of the blue, no explanation. No point looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda Triangles, UFOs, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine.... People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: hmmm? the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really... yeah, you got it! Time machines!"

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Monday, May 7, 2007

Mike Downey

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