A First Time For Everything
Today is the first time that your friendly neighborhood Super Fly is posting on 29th February. The last 29th February was in 2004, several months before this outstanding blog came into existence. Leave it to Caesar and Gregory to give us a calendar that left an extra day in the year on a Friday. Why not a Saturday? Why not make it an automatic weekend day? So much for Saint Gregory being "wise". He should have taken lessons in wisdom from Father Time.
Today, I'm posting a video that I find hilarious. Don't think of it so much as "Why did Fly post a Mandy Moore video?" Think of it more along the lines of "Sweet! Fly posted a spoof of VH1 Pop Up Video!"
In other news, I'd like to once again criticize the media - I know, something new and different for me. Why? Because they leaked Prince Harry's mission in Afghanistan. Now, although I'm an Anglophile, I have mixed feelings about the continued existence of the royal family. Prince Harry in particular has been a real wanker in the past, particularly with his Nazi arm band stunt back in 2005. That having been said, it doesn't come easily for those who have been raised in both the public eye and relative luxury to go to war and fight for their country. Both Prince Harry and his older brother Prince William have made that commitment, and worked hard over the last couple of years. Threats from insurgent groups put his unit in jeopardy if he'd deployed to Iraq, so a quiet deployment to Afghanistan was a good alternative.
Even the filthy hippies at the BBC had kept it quiet. So who leaked it? An Australian paper a while ago, and now the Drudge Report. I'm all for media openness, but having worked in journalism in various forms since I was fifteen, and currently writing as a journalist for an undisclosed media outlet, I can say from experience that there needs to be responsibility in reporting. This isn't smearing some politician who's done something stupid or immoral; it's jeopardizing the lives of coalition soldiers by revealing strategic and operational information. The people who leaked this should be ashamed of themselves, and they should be shunned by the few responsible journalists who are still floating around out there.
Right then, time to get ready for work. Have a great weekend, folks!
Today, I'm posting a video that I find hilarious. Don't think of it so much as "Why did Fly post a Mandy Moore video?" Think of it more along the lines of "Sweet! Fly posted a spoof of VH1 Pop Up Video!"
In other news, I'd like to once again criticize the media - I know, something new and different for me. Why? Because they leaked Prince Harry's mission in Afghanistan. Now, although I'm an Anglophile, I have mixed feelings about the continued existence of the royal family. Prince Harry in particular has been a real wanker in the past, particularly with his Nazi arm band stunt back in 2005. That having been said, it doesn't come easily for those who have been raised in both the public eye and relative luxury to go to war and fight for their country. Both Prince Harry and his older brother Prince William have made that commitment, and worked hard over the last couple of years. Threats from insurgent groups put his unit in jeopardy if he'd deployed to Iraq, so a quiet deployment to Afghanistan was a good alternative.
Even the filthy hippies at the BBC had kept it quiet. So who leaked it? An Australian paper a while ago, and now the Drudge Report. I'm all for media openness, but having worked in journalism in various forms since I was fifteen, and currently writing as a journalist for an undisclosed media outlet, I can say from experience that there needs to be responsibility in reporting. This isn't smearing some politician who's done something stupid or immoral; it's jeopardizing the lives of coalition soldiers by revealing strategic and operational information. The people who leaked this should be ashamed of themselves, and they should be shunned by the few responsible journalists who are still floating around out there.
Right then, time to get ready for work. Have a great weekend, folks!
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