Survivor

So I watch Survivor every once in a while, and I must say that this season is not as interesting as the last one.

However, I think it's interesting that once again, almost all of the white contestants are gone, while the general favorite competitor is an old and shriveled up (but still appealing in that cute-grandfather way) Asian man named Yao Man, who's in an alliance with a strong African-American guy named Earl. This officially proves that race really doesn't matter in forming relationships. In fact, the contestants that chose to segregate themselves last season (they were white, sorry) were picked off by the racially diverse team.

Final verdict (according to Survivor): Diversity= stronger team (different skills and perspectives, perhaps?) while a homogenous team= weaker team

So Nestle Bought Gerber

The title says it all----
WHAT IS THIS??? Baby food plus Gerber equals bad.
This makes me feel like in about ten years there will only be ten companies because they'll all have bought everybody else.
I'm betting on Google, Viacom, AT&T, Proctor and Gamble, and Starbucks to make it.

unfairness

Why do guys get to be funny? It's so NOT FAIR.

Perhaps it's a confidence issue- guys get up on stage and talk, and they're pretty much automatically funny (unless they're sucky guys), whereas girls get up on stage to talk, and they're worried the whole time about how they look, or what their friends will say about them.
There are very few naturally funny girls that can be funny in front of people, not just with their friends. I mean, the only female comedians I can think of right now are Rosie O'Donnell (shoot me) and Margaret Cho (quasi-shoot me).

Maybe that's why guys typically get the leadership positions in co-ed schools. We all know that we pretty much vote for the person with the funniest speech unless our friend is running against him/her (usually him). I mean, I was at USN and I was looking at the officer board, and almost all of the officers were guys.

I guess all-girls schools might actually have a point....

Delusional People

Why is it that people that no one likes are mean?

Why do people kill themselves in the name of their peaceful, loving god?

Most importantly, why do people who are obviously tone deaf audition for American Idol?

These are oxymorons that are yet to be solved- and they continue to vex the American populace day after day.

Scenario 1:
Okay, let's say that no one likes you because you are annoying/smell/or are just very strange. You don't notice that people don't like you because you are socially challenged. However, because you think that you're really cool, you make snotty remarks all the time to prove your superiority, and thus people dislike you even more.

Scenario 2:
Ok same thing, no one likes you because _______(fill in the blank, that's what it's for). You know that people don't like you and you don't know what to do about it. Therefore you make snotty remarks all the time because you are insecure.

So chicken or egg, do people dislike mean people because they were mean to begin with, or do people become mean because people don't like them?
To me, Scenario 1 makes a lot more sense; a person is mean, therefore people do not like him/her.
Scenario 2 just makes no sense whatsoever. What makes people think that being mean to others will remedy their sad situation? But it happens all the time. Maybe they've given up hope; or maybe they just have issues.

I guess you could turn this into a philosophical discussion- are people inherently evil (Scen. 1) or inherently good (Scen. 2)?

*peace out*