The believers of American Exceptionalism see the country as a "city on the hill," morally above other nations and a force for good in the world. However, when one points to the historical record of our nation waging unjust wars of choice, unseating democratically elected leaders, supporting dictatorships, standing idly by as genocide rages, and the like, the response is to point out that other countries have done the same thing, apparently unaware of how this invalidates their original claim of exceptionalism. Thus, how ironic it was for the so-called president to defend the Russian leader as "a killer" by pointing to our country's history of evil. I'm left wondering whether he has some special insight that his electorate lacks, or if he is just woefully inept at applying their arguments by forgetting which country to defend as exceptional. I can't shake the feeling that it's a mixture of both.
Dallas Mavericks point guard J.J. Barea standing between two very tall people (from: Picassa user photoasisphoto).
Congrats to the Dallas Mavericks, who beat the Miami Heat tonight in game six to win the NBA championship.
Okay, with that out of the way, just how tall is the busy-footed Maverick point guard J.J. Barea? He's listed as 6-foot on NBA.com, but no one, not even the sports casters, believes that he can possibly be that tall. He looks like a super-fast Hobbit out there. But could that just be relative scaling, with him standing next to a bunch of extremely tall people? People on Yahoo! Answers think so---I know because I've been Google searching "J.J. Barea Height" for the past 15 minutes.
So I decided to find a photo and settle the issue once and for all.
I started by downloading a stock photo of J.J. from NBA.com, which I then loaded into OpenOffice Draw:
I then used the basketball as my metric. Wikipedia states that an NBA basketball is 29.5 inches in circumfe…
Congrats to the Dallas Mavericks, who beat the Miami Heat tonight in game six to win the NBA championship.
Okay, with that out of the way, just how tall is the busy-footed Maverick point guard J.J. Barea? He's listed as 6-foot on NBA.com, but no one, not even the sports casters, believes that he can possibly be that tall. He looks like a super-fast Hobbit out there. But could that just be relative scaling, with him standing next to a bunch of extremely tall people? People on Yahoo! Answers think so---I know because I've been Google searching "J.J. Barea Height" for the past 15 minutes.
So I decided to find a photo and settle the issue once and for all.
I started by downloading a stock photo of J.J. from NBA.com, which I then loaded into OpenOffice Draw:
I then used the basketball as my metric. Wikipedia states that an NBA basketball is 29.5 inches in circumfe…
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