Bowl game are BS

I used to be a pseudo-college football fan, like most blokes who attended a proper university are. However, I have found myself boycotting any watching of ANY college football games, even my own alma mater's games. This is not just because I am older, and am too busy, but it's because of the meaningless, nitwit of a system the football people have been using.

Every single bowl game, other than the national championship game, is a glorified exhibition game that means literally...nothing. You get paid whether you win or lose. Your team wins some notoriety just by being in the bowl, but that doesn't mean you will get blue chip recruits because of it. And I find the coverage on ESPN, which has gotten nauseatingly self-serving in the last 4-5 years, to be a colossal annoyance. So much so, I have temporarily stopped watching the ESPN flagship, the program that made it what it is, SportsCenter.

SportsCenter, in and of itself, has become so commercialized it's downright nauseating in it's own right...the "Budweiser Hot Seat??" how retarded???!!...but, to spend hour upon hours devoting time to meaningless football games, is annoying and pathetic.

Okay, so ESPN is about entertainment! I'll give it a free pass, but I still won't be a watching...

Should have listened

Just saw "No Country For Old Men." The radio show I listen too via Podcast said it was a great Cohen Bros. flick, but the ending was just awful. After seeing it...it's bloody, violent, sad, all the things one would expect from the Cohen's...and then ending was indeed a head-scratcher. All, in all tho, a good flick.

Call me cruel if ye wish, but...

Apparently a tiger escaped its pen and killed 2 people at the SF Zoo on Christmas Day. The police ended up killing the tiger. Shouldn't they have freakin' tranquilizer darts or something at the ready for these types of situations?

Look, they're freaking tigers. They see fresh meat, they are going to eat it. There was no reason to shoot the tiger, just like there is never a reason to shoot a wild animal that escapes a zoo and kills people. It's part of the risk ya'll.

Oh yeah, and Merry farkin' Christmas.

Oy! I now remember...

more reasons as to why I am totally for cutting the number of flights, and raising ticket costs:

1. Parents traveling with small kids, and even worse..yes, babies. Much like there should be baby/kids sections in eating establishments, there should be kid/baby only planes.

2. However, while the babies at least have an excuse, they have no reason to know proper airline flying etiquette...stupid people who for SOME reason do not get the simple things.

For example: WHEN GOING THROUGH SECURITY, YOU NEED TO TAKE OFF YOUR FUCKING SHOES!!!! If you don't know this by now, then you should not be permitted to freaking fly.

Finally, to the people who don't stay at their gate and hold up the EN-TIRE freaking plane, get a clue. I saw this happen 3 times...passenger x please come to gate b42, you plane has done been boarded and your ignorant ass ain't on it. Learn how to read a simple board, and if it's within a half and hour within the time you are supposed to leave, perhaps your fat ass should stick around.

7 minutes of a Resident moron

The Resident in Chief...back in 2001, on the date: September 11th, sat on his fat, dumb, ignorant ass, FOR 7 FREAKING MINUTES!!!!, while the Twin Towers were burning. To this day, I cannot imagine another human being being so stupid, as to sit there "pretending" to read (I say pretending, because we know he can't fucking read) a god damn children's story.

THIS was/is the same man who pretends to 'protect' us from the "evil do-ers."

Too bad, he couldn't protect us from the biggest "evil do-er"...himself.

Air-pane!

Something I've been griping about for years. It has become too cheap to fly, there are too many flights. Airlines have needed to slash the number of flights and raise rates. Make seats bigger, allow more leg room, bring back the sexiness to the flight experience. The airlines consistently tried to go on the cheap, lower perks, raise the number of flights to the same god damn destination.

From Boston, there are like, 8-10 different flights per day to of all places...freakin Baltimore. Cut the 8-10 flights to 4 on bigger planes.

Well, looks like NYC may be stepping up to the plate and officially limiting the number of flights that can take off in an hour. I hope this passes, and is strictly enforced. I hearted flying back in the 90s, when it wasn't pure hell to deal with sitting on the tarmac in a runway line of 50 planes.

Continuing Gross Miscarriage of Justice

Around this time 9 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the 42nd President of the United States of America because he got a blowjob or two from a damn intern.

Lo these 9 years later, to see a selected Resident in Chief getting a free pass on war he clearly forged his way into, that he KNEW didn't need to be fought, not be at least impeached...is un-fuckin-believable.

It's a travesty, a sham, and a mockery...it's the most serious travishamockery in recent memory. OY!

Roger and the Clemens' factor

Being a BoSox fan since the late 1980's, I grew up being a fan of Clemens. I even rooted for him when he packed his bags, and was essentially kicked out of the clubhouse by former Sox General Manager, Dan Ducette and Roger signed with Toronto. But, from the moment he was traded, not his fault because being traded meant he had no real say-so, to the MF Yankees, I wanted to see him get smoked anytime the Sox faced him. Moreover, I cheered when he got smacked around in many playoff games.

The baseball world is being rocked right now because of the Mitchell Report on steroids/human growth hormone used by baseball players in the past. Roger was named in said report, and only until a few hours ago, had no comment. He has officially denied using any substance via a written statement.

Baseball is going through a rough time, and as a fan of the game, this will be hard to watch. But, there's an old saying that goes something like, you gotta crawl, dig through the shit to reach the light. Baseball has just begun this ugly, ugly, nasty, journey, and I whole-heartedly support it. Baseball will be better for it, and if that causes some of my then favorite players, or even now players to go down with the ship...then so be it.

By denying it, in the face of mounds of circumstantial evidence (including his personal trainer testifying under oath that he injected Roger in the ass with something), Roger risks looking even more like the arrogant, bulldog, ass he has always been loved for. (He once threw the ball at his pregnant wife as they were playing, and when she actually hit the ball he pitched, the guy hit her with the next pitch...this is the bulldog, competitor we've seen these last 20 years.)

But, now he will be hated for it. Perhaps the greatest pitcher we have seen pitcher in my generation, may turn out to have been a total fraud...is tough thing to swallow. And, deep down I still respect Roger, but this will wipe away that respect, and leave total sadness and humiliation in my heart.

Is it possible that Oprah...is a racist?

This is probably the first post that could cause a nuclear explosion on my being.

I'm just pontificating a bit here...but, is it possible that Oprah is showing some racism here? After over a good 14 years? of being on top of the television world (she made her big resurgence around '93), she NOW starts campaigning for a Presidential candidate? She didn't think it was important enough to support John Kerry, didn't feel it necessary to help campaign for Al Gore in 2000? Has no need to support her fellow female, Hillary Clinton?

Hmmm...it's just a postulation, I'm starting to think that if Obama wasn't black, she would not be doing all that she is for him. No matter how much she believed in him, no way would she stick out her neck for a white man who had the same message as Obama. I think Oprah is being a racist here, by only giving Obama help because he happens to be a black man who is incredibly impressive.

The Odd Psysiology of Global Warming

At work last week, during a day after we got a whopping 2 inches of snow (it's the northeast people, grow a pair will ya?!) someone made the snarky comment to me while passing in the hall, "So, much for that global warming." Now this person doesn't know me well enough to know my politics, or have any idea that I'd be one who logically looks at the empirical evidence and says that global warming is clearly, not a fucking myth.

So, with no previous history to go on, I'm guessing this person really felt that way, and I took at such. Which, caused me to stop dead in my tracks and shake my head at the apparent supreme stupidity of the majority of this moron-cracy.

Face it people, even if global warming is in fact the fraud that dumbfucks like Sen. Ted Stevens thinks it is, it's still generally a good fucking idea to cut back on using gas and find better ways to fuel our automobiles.

More, to the point though...this latest ice storm that is sweeping across the country, there's a reason it's ice and not snow. Yeah, it's still fucking cold out there, but I'd be willing to bet the smallest up tick in overall temperatures led that precipitation to be water/ice as opposed to a good, ol' fashion snow storm.

The freakish weather that has been happening recently, tsunami's, hurricanes galore, wicked long droughts, and the large water dumpage on areas like New Orleans, is happening because the weather patterns are slowly changing. Ice shelfs are disappearing, which not only causes the water to get a fraction warmer in the long-term, but also perhaps affects the wind dynamics and how the jet streams and all that shit happens. Despite what your local or national fuckwit weather jackass says, they know shit about the weather in truth. We know very little about how to control, or really how to predict weather changes on a grand scale.

But, then how can I be so vigilant about the global warming? Because if they can't predict a simple weather front, how can we predict global seismic weather changes? Isn't that a bit of a leap to make? Sure it is, but I'd have 2 simple rebuttals: 1. The data is there, go look at the numbers. Numbers when screwed with by lawyers and accountants, can indeed lie like a whore addicted to crack. But, still... 2. If were wrong, fine. But, what is we are right? Then hell will be exactly one place...here, on earth.

On Foundations & Non-Profits

I really admire people who start foundations for research and the like, I really do. However...

I think we have too many. A good chunk of money donated to small foundations are tied-up in administrative costs or costs related to marketing to make more money and get more donations.

In all honesty, I have not looked for the research to see if smaller foundations are more cost-effective than the big giant ones. But, the big one I know of around these parts, which I have given money to, is the Jimmy Fund. They have a massive telethon every year, and they have been the major charity of the local nine (The Boston Red Sox) for decades. I know they now have managed to offset all administrative costs through interest they make, i assume this is how they are doing it. So, i wonder if this is a common thing amongst the bigger non-profits.

All smaller, much-less known foundation around these parts is the Sean McDonough foundation that has only managed to raise $2 million in the roughly 6 years it has been in existence. While $2 million is a good chunk of money, it has to be largely eaten up by administrative costs. Even if it has not, a charity that can only raise about $500k per year seems to be almost a waste of time and energy.

We need less non-profits pooling their funds.

Suck it: J.A. Bank

If I ever find out who the jackass is that records the voice overs for those god damn Joesph A. Bank adverts on tv, I will shove a baseball bat encrusted with barbed wire up his rectum. Fuckin' hate that guy.

Good Night, and Good Luck

Every six months since the movie came out on DVD, I pop in the movie. It reminds me why I love Olbermann, tho the insufferable fuck he is. I'd love to get a newsreel of all Murrow's reports on DVD during this time. Murrow is a god, and he is what one can only hope for.