This blog is intended to both poke fun at, and shed light on, the confluence of a couple of phenomena of the internet age: the level of discourse one finds on “comment” areas of newspapers, magazines, blogs, etc., and the polarization of the nation into just two camps (liberal or conservative, pepsi or coke, tastes great or less filling).

I've called it “Be Reasonable” to bring focus to what is out of focus: that people don’t seem to be able to engage in reasonable discussion or reasonable disagreement, but instead act in disrespectful ways to feel like they’ve made their point. Of course, this does nothing of the sort. So, I am here to implore people to please, take a look at the items I post here…see yourself in them…and “Be Reasonable” for once.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Mugly Dog


I am a dog lover.  Dogs are empathic, intelligent creatures while at the same time being just dumb enough to provide truly unconditional love.  There’s a country song by Billy Currington (yeah, I’m a country music lover, so sue me!) in which the key lyric is “I want you to love me like my dog does baby.”  I think everyone can relate to that kind of love.  Dogs feel for you, even at the expense of themselves.  I begin the blog this way today because of this guy, Mugly, who recently won the “World’s Ugliest Dog” contest.




I gotta say…I think they got that one right.  Let the arguments begin!




Hey now!  That’s not what I really meant by ‘arguments.’  What?  Oh, no argument there…




Really “WilliamR”?  The last thing?  You just named two things right before that which are infinitely worse than an ugly dog contest.  And, not for nothing, but Mugly “won” $1000 and a year’s worth of treats.  Not a bad haul, if you ask me.




Interesting.  I mean, I am assuming that you have never met Mugly, amirite?  What if Mugly is a dick?  Would it be okay with you then?




Well “Sean”…you might be an early frontrunner.




Oh, “Ronald.”  I just…I really…I have no idea where to go with this one.  It’s a little creepy that you’re so enamored with Mugly’s sex life, but a million dollars on whether Mugly is the canine equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain?




Hey “Wake Up”…it’s a grand okay?  Get a grip.  This contest is not the reason for the country’s economic problems and it certainly wouldn’t do much for the “millions” of other dogs.




Geezus “Dottie” you’re givin’ me whiplash here!  He’s ugly, he’s cute, he’s ugly, please invite me.  WTF?  Do you really think there are talent scouts scouring the country and “inviting” people to this contest?  How ‘bout you use that there google machine and find out how to enter you and your cute but ugly dog next year?




Well good, we all agree that people suck.  Especially people who type things like “so haven’t I”…tragic.




Get it?!?  See, Mitt Romney is famous for strapping the family dog to the roof of the car for a vacation trip to Canada.  And President Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, where he ate dog meat as part of the culture.  Sooooo effin funny…now that we’ve given equal time to offend both presidential candidates in this election year (to say nothing of offending poor Mugly), I will leave it at that.

Happy Independence Day everyone!

Be Reasonable.

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