The Karma Blog

Every once in a while karma comes back and bites you (or rewards you). Whatever the case karma or in Bible terms, sowing, can be good or bad. You do good things, you'll get rewarded. Do not so good things, you'll get rewarded with negative consequences. The aim of this blog is to reward good guys (and gals) for good deeds, and people (or companies) I think have done wrong, constructive criticism. The most karma points one can have is 1000 either positive or negative. Points can be given or taken on any criteria. These five people/companies are in the inaugural list of karma

Positive Karma

Ed Schultz

Big Eddie gets 1000 karma points with me because he and I share the same exact beliefs. Healthcare for everybody, wages to be increased, and calling out those who are greedy. One of his fellow MSNBC hosts, Keith Olbermann, also believes in most of these things as well. (Also Keith gets kudos for taking on ClusterFox News for the past 5 years or more). The main reason Ed Schultz gets 1000 karma points is that in disguise he's a black guy. He went to a black high school, presents African-Americans on his show, and he doesn't take crap from anyone. Watch his show at 6et/5ct on MSNBC.

Dylan Ratigan

Dylan gets 1000 karma points because he, like me, hates spin. He breaks down anything financial related into bits that even a junior high person can understand. He may have a few conservative tendencies but I can live with that. Here's a video of Dylan taking on 'Birther Queen' Orly Taitz.



Here's another of him taking on "idiot' Brad Blakeman.

Versuz2 of Youtube

Another one of the good guys. He gets 1000 karma points for his dedication of wanting a better and more realistic game of football. Any post he makes about Madden football is automatically deleted and he keeps making the videos so people can see through the rose tinted glasses. He makes valid points about many things and here's a sample.




Those are the three with good karma by me. To balance good you must have bad or negative.

Negative Karma

ESPN gets -995 karma because they still have yet to fire Dana Jacobson for her remarks about Notre Dame and Jesus. If anyone in the world said that they would be fired on the spot and be demonized in public. They also get negative karma for three of the worst shows on television, (even worse than the O'Reilly Factor and Campbell Brown: No Brains No Clue), even worse than them. SportsNation, Mike Greenberg, and Dana Jacobson. SportsNation first: I knew the idea of user generated content would be dumb. It only works if the users have some creativity. Instead the "idiots" at ESPN go the ClusterFox route and regurgitate talking points. Another reason to steer clear of that show is the mindless Colin Coward. If you google search him, I think anyone could beat him in a fight.

Next Dana Jacobson. She has no brains and no clue what she's talking about. So what that she covered the Sacramento Queens (they haven't been relevant since I was in high school, back in 2003) and she went to Michigan (though I feel the state's pain during the recession). Other than her, everything else I can deal with. Skip Bayless used to get on my nerves, now after 6 years of watching Cold Pizza/First Take, I overstand where he comes from. Fire Dana now ESPN or your product will suffer.

Finally Mike Greenberg (or as I like to call him Mike Foolish): This "dummy" disrespected Guitar Hero (even though Rock Band is the better of the two). That's a no-no. The moment he laughed at GH was the moment I stopped watching their show. (For three years my sanity was been restored since not watching that crap.) If you do a google search of him, anyone could beat this clown in a fight, even a wet paper bag.

The only reason why ESPN doesn't get the full negative karma because of shows like Rome is Burning, Around the Horn, Pardon the Interruption, Baseball Tonight, NFL Live (to an extent), and the Scott Van Pelt show.

Gametrailers.com

They used to be on my good karma list until about early 2008 when they changed their system of getting points. It used to be when you gave thumbs up, commented on anything, posted videos, or write blogs, you'd get GameTrailer Dollars. Once they changed that, I lost any incentive to post blogs on their site. My account's still active and I don't have the reason to log in, because some of the people probably deleted me as a user. Add to the fact they disrespected Uncharted 2, but said that you should buy the game anyway, -1000 karma for you gametrailers.

Originally there were six but, I forgot the last thing with negative karma (thanks sleep for ruining a great idea). Remember the golden rule: "Do unto others, as you would do to yourself."