Kaepernick sits out the anthem

People take their patriotism very personally; it's more guided by emotion than rational thinking, and so I think that helps explain why this issue shortcuts so quickly to the personal. It's kind of amazing the wide range of people who have chimed in on this. Soon enough there will be another mass shooting and we can shift from doing nothing about this issue to doing nothing about guns.

 

It's also because people have no idea how to argue. There is a PhD I'm Facebook friends with, and whenever he posts a Deadspin link, which is often, I remind him that they peddle plagiarism. Like clockwork, he accuses me of hating Deadspin because they scooped my friends five years ago in something. This is a guy who is smarter than me, I'm guessing. But right away, the short circuit is to an ad hominem return salvo.

 

Shut up, Dick. You don't know what you're talking about.

 

LOL.

 

More like: Colin Kaepernick's act doesn't rise to his cause.

 

Now this is a protest.

 

Worth a click if your on teh Twitterez #veteransforkaepernick

 

Kaepernick has strangled his own career for two years, does that count?

 

Interesting to me how veterans became somehow central to the issue. He isn't protesting anything to do with the military and I don't automatically associate the flag with the military. I associate it with the country as a whole, of which the military is but a part. But people automatically assume he's being disrespectful to veterans by not standing up for the national anthem.

 

I support her right to burn herself up in a fire, but I think she was really stupid to do so.

 

Well if she lights herself on fire, that is OK. But if someone else's office burns as a result, that is usually called arson.

 

Where did you get your law degree, Mr. Smarty Pants?