At first I found this David Frum article on gun control and thought David Frum just keeps getting more and more retarded.  Them I found something else and thought is Frum that retarded?  You decide, I just don’t have it today.

This is my Review of Coors in the Original Yellow Can:

What could possibly be more retarded than David Frum in the Atlantic appealing to statistics with limited context, meaningless comparisons to “other” countries, and underhanded infantilization of women and minorities?

A rock.

The University of Wisconsin removed a 70-ton boulder from their campus after minority students expressed their viewpoint the rock was a symbol of racism.

The University of Wisconsin has removed a 70-ton boulder from its Madison campus at the request of minority students who viewed the rock — which was referred to by a slur for blacks — as a symbol of racism.

Chamberlin Rock atop Observatory Hill — named after Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a 19th-century geologist and former university president — was at least once referred to as a “n—–head” rock in a 1925 article in the Wisconsin State Journal.

Wait, a what?

A type of marine rope winch used for nautical applications invented by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 1300s. When full off rope it resembled a type of tree known as negro cabeca or darkhead or blackhead or literally niggerhead in English. Named 300 years before the word nigger was ever used to describe someone of African descent in any form of literature. Also known as a capstan, windlass, gypsy or a bollard with rope on it

That can’t be right, let’s continue the search.

In several English-speaking countries, niggerhead or nigger head is a former name for several things thought to resemble the head of a black person (cf. “nigger“).[1][2] The name is now taboo in normal usage.

The term was once widely used for all sorts of things, including nautical bollards[3][4] and consumer products including soap, chewing tobacco, stove polish, canned oysters and shrimp, golf tees, and toy cap pistols, among others. It was often used for geographic features such as hills and rocks and geological objects such as geodes.[5][6] The term appears in several US patents for mechanical devices prior to about 1950.[7][8] Languages other than English have used similar terms to describe chocolate-coated marshmallow treats.

So they referred to the rock with a racial slur once nearly a century ago when the slur wasn’t taboo, to describe the shape of a rock resembling a human head.  This was only done once, and there is no other record.  So surely it resembles a human head?

Nope.  Its a giant rock.  We’re living in a bad sitcom.

 

 

Didn’t I already review Coors?  No…that was Coors light.  I got it because of its history of be available only in the west and being the plot device for Smokey and the Bandit.  On some level it occurred to me in the near future smuggling goods across state lines might become a lucrative and entertaining profession. Does that change its bland, watery taste?  Not really, but it works great as a liquid to cook brats and it was a 2 for $5.  Quite frankly they never claimed to be anything other than what they are so I can respect it.   Coors in the Original Yellow Can: 2.0/5