{"id":6966,"date":"2022-07-15T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:24:17","slug":"cancel-culture-has-nothing-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldmanstate.com\/2022\/07\/15\/cancel-culture-has-nothing-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"“Cancel Culture” Has Nothing on Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My top 19 choices for immediate elimination<\/h2>\n

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By Ed Goldman<\/h6>\n

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I<\/span>f life were like the TV industry and I were a network executive, these are the 19 things I\u2019d cancel (I had a 20th item but canceled it):<\/p>\n

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  1. All of my dental appointments.<\/li>\n
  2. Every meeting on Zoom involving more than seven people, six of whom have no idea where to look.<\/li>\n
  3. All of my credit cards, especially the ones promising travel points: Why, all I’d have to do is charge $80,000 worth of goods in a four-month period to earn a free one-way flight to corruption-haunted Bellflower, California. Which does not have an airport.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. All nonprofit\u00a0\u201cexecutive committee\u201d\u00a0meetings that are being held so that we can either fire or grant a raise to the nonprofit\u2019s executive director (thou shalt not call one a CEO\u2014that\u2019s reserved for the private sector). Why not just vote by email and send the person a thumbs-up or thumbs-down text?<\/li>\n
    2. Mondays.<\/li>\n
    3. Every meeting on Zoom if even one participant uses a phony backdrop\u2014especially if it’s of a tiki bar or seascape.<\/li>\n
    4. Every focus group I’ve ever been asked to arrange or participate in, even if promised refreshments for showing up.<\/li>\n
    5. Every free lunch that comes with a mandatory presentation on how I can retire like a millionaire to Dhaka, Bangladesh (hailed as the “trashiest city in the world” on the actual website route-fifty.com<\/a>).<\/li>\n
    6. Wednesdays.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. Every TV\/radio yakfest, whether left- or right-leaning. This would include The View, Fox & Friends, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Don Lemon, Laura Ingraham, NFL commentators, NBA commentators, MJB commentators, and Pat Sajak.<\/li>\n
      2. Bob Costa’s “live” Olympics commentary (“Something amazing happened here 17 hours ago, Majorca time, and we taped it for you”).<\/li>\n
      3. Similarly, the verbiage at the beginning of the otherwise great Stephen Colbert’s Late Show that says it’s being beamed to us “live, on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater.” Watch the show closely and see how often there are jump cuts when Colbert’s talking to a guest and, occasionally during his opening monologue. In summary: “live,” my ass.<\/li>\n
      4. The recurrent idiotic posts on Facebook like, “Bet you can’t name a fish with the letter ‘b’ in it.”\u00a0<\/li>\n
      5. LinkedIn, which still features people announcing their availability for jobs long after they’ve found one or died. (True story, sadly.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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