When The Simpsons Started Sucking

I don't know what prompted this, probably some random link I followed somewhere, but I found a website that clearly indicates when The Simpsons started sucking. I pretty much stopped watching regularly during season 10 and did not watch it at all after season 13, so I am not able to comment adequately about its continued slump, but I agree with this summary from a brilliant site:

Seasons 1-6 – The Simpsons
Season 7 – One Bad Episode
Seasons 8-11 – Mayday, Mayday, we’re going down!
Season 12+ – Zombie Simpsons. It has no pulse and no intelligence but it just won’t fucking die.

Zombie Simpsons ManifestoI have the first 5 seasons ingrained in my head pretty well and seasons 6-9 decently because I watched them when they came out and caught them in syndication over and over in my youth. They were on at 5 and later both 5 and 5:30 and I didn't have much to do in that time slot between my paper route and dinner - this was before the internets.

Somebody posited that the peak was the Monorail episode. That sounds plausible. It was season 4. I dare say the Monorail episode is one of the best things that has ever been on TV.

This reflection only makes me more mad that the "Jurassic Bark" episode of Futurama lost to an episode of The Simpsons.

Communism

Communism is bad: http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/musframe.htm

God Bless America

I was at an event, a conference of sorts, with some interesting speakers, including Colin Powell. At the start of the event, they played the national anthem, and I stood up, hand over heart, looking for a flag (didn't look around like a yokel for too long, didn't see one, so I looked at the singer, found it later), in accordance with the suggestions put forth by Congress in the Flag Code. In the afternoon, they sang "God Bless America" and I did not stand. There are a number of reasons, but here's the one relevant to one of the purposes of this blog: the panheresy of ecumenism. The song indicates that it is a prayer, and I don't engage in acts of public prayer with heretics in accordance with canon law under threat of excommunication.

Apologetics

I read some boring apologetic article from some Catholic about why he didn't convert to Orthodoxy, and this got me thinking about the silly futility of apologetics. The only evidence I need to prove that Catholicism is wrong is that they do not commune infants. No bombardment of ratiocination can overcome that fact which conclusively proves they are wrong.

Goal Progress

1. Still not crushing enemies.
2. Battling a little cosmic evil.
3. Some progress on justice.
4. I forget what I was at when I wrote this. I'm around 114kg right now.
5. Not really doing well on this. Not taking an exam this spring, which pushes things back. I am taking a class though and doing decently. I'll take another, maybe 2, in the fall. And maybe do an exam, but I'm not sure. The classes will be relatively low impact, so I might. But they take time...
6. Not playing much chess. I did look over some puzzles recently.
7. I competed at a powerlifting meet and totaled 475kg. 500 should be very easy this year. I might be able to hit it right now, actually. I'm competing in a weightlifting meet in July. I don't think I'll hit 225kg, but I might make it by the end of the year.

"Look at me!"

"Look at me! I'm being critical of the people choosing a new bishop!"

Seriously, man. Come on. There's nothing wrong with being openly critical of a process, mind you, especially as important as this. I think he's being a little silly, that's all.