Day: August 24, 2016

Even Jay-Z is drinking the juice. On Khalid’s Major Key album he raps, ‘I perform like Josh Norman; I ain’t normal’ which is possibly more prophetic than he realizes. See, Jay-Z works really well within a certain BPM range and cadence. Within that range he is seen as one of the best–largely because the best are older or straight up out of the game. So we are left with Jay-Z to be the Scion of a budding generation. So too can be said of Norman, but there are other things to be said and other questions still unanswered, enough so that I am extremely suspicious of his ability to be the lockdown player he was professed to be in Carolina.

Here is a question: If Norman is Revis good, then why release him? I get not wanting to pay a player what they believe they are worth–heck the Jets traded Revis–but to let him go without getting anything in exchange points to a larger issue. A Nick Foles-sized issue. Remember Foles? Pro-Bowl offensive MVP Foles who had a ridiculously good season with the Eagles before the world (save for the Rams) realized he was a straight up fluke? That happened. Then the Rams released him and now he is a backup for the Chiefs.

This happens a lot. The media hypes up a player and they turn out to be less-than. I’ve watched the tape. Sorry, Jay-Z. Norman is normal. So are you, BTW.

Earlier today I posted a fairly cryptic facebook message. I said, in sum, that I finally understand the difference between religion and science. It goes like this: Science is about the How. Religion is about the Why. Science tells us to ask the difficult questions about how a thing works, how the universe started and how many times reality has been formed (probably 8) and how it all works. Religion is primarily concerned with why we are here, what our purpose is, and why we are meant to behave in a certain fashion. Religion largely leaves the question of how up to God and Faith.

God made the world. How? Seven days of complex hand movements I suppose. But none of that matters. He did it, we know it, and you ought to move right along. Science responds, ‘Not so fast, my friend. Even if God made the world, it used the complex physics of space time in order to do so, therefore we ought to try and understand how those work in order to gain a better understanding of our reality.’

So there you have the insane collaboration of how and why, which truly ought to be a collaboration and really was at some points in our history. Nowadays we are largely reduced to caricatures and stereotypes to group together large swaths of understanding and separate them from each other in a binary fashion. You are 0 or 1, but never both it seems and if both you are outcast.

Wait, my saddle is making me itch. Let me climb down off this high horse…

Some Thoughts:

1. Forza 6 is visually stunning and I am hooked. Race Night 2 coming this Saturday.
2. I remain thoroughly and utterly in love.
3. No, it isn’t a blonde. That was a typo.