Smile!

Smile!
by james bezerra


Every once in a while,
you should smile
at strangers who walk by.
You needn’t say ‘hi’
just your pretty smile will do.
It’s simply a nice way
to brighten their day
and make them like you.

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Must be Nurtured.

Was that last post too obtuse?
Here, try this one:


Dear “Birther”
You’re just a racist.

If you don’t like it here,
feel free to go back to the northern European country that your ancestors left of their own free will.
And stay there.
Because we don’t need you here.

America has a complicated racial past
which we are all still trying to get past.
And just because you don’t call for lynching
and don’t use epithets,
doesn’t mean you aren’t a racist.

Assuming that the black guy isn’t as American as you
is racist; is not patriotic.

And vocally disliking the President doesn’t
somehow make Jefferson proud.
That tree of liberty, watered from time to time by the blood of patriots,
must be nurtured by them too.

And hiding behind the Constitution
doesn’t make it more yours than mine.
Doesn’t make this country more yours than mine.
Doesn’t make America more yours than anybody else’s.
And screaming loudest, just makes you loudest, not most virtuous.

This country is a project.
A massive, huge, too big, too bold, too ambitious project that we all undertake together every day.
And you are not helping. So go away.

Or, at least,
calm your bitter angels.
Read that Constitution that you wave so high.
Please quiet your impassioned pleas and think before you speak.
Or, at least, think about why you speak and what it means and what a wonderful right it is and how and why you abuse it so.

And please calm the hell down about the birth certificate (which has been on the internet for two years already).



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Should Have Called Those Shoes "Air Douche Bags"

Wow, apparently Michael Jordan is a jerk.

Normally I wouldn’t bother you with sports, mostly because I know so little about it (also, I don’t actually care), however I came across this article about the speech that Jordan gave recently when he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. So it turns out that Michael Jordon, the man that inspired a million shoes, is basically just an arrogant prick.

Now this may be old news to people who watch sports, but Michael Jordan has spent more time on my TV whoring for Hanes than he has as a basketball player, so I don’t really know.

Essentially he spent most of his speech in this vicious spiral of arrogance and anger. He called out his high school basketball coach who didn’t bump him up to Varsity as a sophomore, saying, “I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”

What the fuck is that about? Who does that?

Hey Michael Jordon, you are rich and famous because you are really good at putting a ball in basket. Oh, yeah! And you are also good at bouncing it up an down. Rock on asshole, that is quite an accomplishment!

Anyway, I just wanted to warn all of you, apparently this guy sucks at being a person.

Here is the article.
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