Once again, it has been awhile. Quikstop has been really busy moving down to Va. Tech and starting my new job, so hopefully you can excuse me. Well I'm back because there is just so much going on right now, I just couldn't resist blogging it up.
Let's see, what should I talk about? Well, in honor of my being at VT, I think I will discuss the Michael Vick dog fighting investigation. It looks as if Michael Vick may never play for the Atlanta Falcons again because his house in Virginia was the center of a huge illegal dog fighting ring. As the former owner of an awesome German Shepherd, the fact that innocent dogs were electrocuted, hung and killed is nauseating. PETA has threatened to protest the NFL if Commissioner Roger Goodell does not severely punish Vick for his alleged actions (if I recall people were innocent until proven guilty in this country, but oh well). This brings me to my major problem with this "scandal" and PETA people in general. Michael Vick's actions were certainly questionable at best and deplorable at worst, but at least he didn't harm any PEOPLE. Should the FBI really be investigating dog fighting instead of terrorism or organized crime?
I'm not at all a fan of cruelty to any animals, (excepts cows and calves, they are just too tasty) but seriously people. Considering the deplorable things happening to actual human beings these days, should Michael Vick be a front-page story or the subject of a federal investigation? I don't think so. Almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, people in New Orleans are still living in a 3rd World situation (but it's cool because the Saints drafted Reggie Bush). Thousands are meaninglessly slaughtered in Dar Fur on a daily basis. Jews are still murdering Palestinians and vice versa. 190,000 American Veterans are homeless on the streets. These are real problems that mean the death of millions of innocent people every year, and yet Michael Vick's dead dogs are what everyone seems to care about.
What sickens me most about Vick-gate '07 is that if Michael Vick wasn't a $100 million athlete and the starting Quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, no one would give a damn about the dead dogs. Have we become such star fuckers in this country that crime only matters if done by or to the famous? Dog fights go one everyday somewhere in America, but when Michael Vick runs it it becomes a national scandal. People don't give a shit about the dogs, they care about getting their faces on television. So PETA, the FBI, the NFL, ESPN are all dogs, because a dog likes nothing more than getting attention.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
It's Been A While
Hello all. Sorry it has been so long since I last blogged but it's been a busy month and a half. I graduated from the University of Maryland after enduring possibly the longest, most boring, worst commencement speech of all time. In short, the speech discussed how progress wasn't real, it was merely an idea. Shortly thereafter, I went to Europe for a month. Here are some things I learned:
1. ALL Spanish guys walk around like they are the shit, yet many of them have not yet gotten the 1993 memo that the mullet is not and has never been fashionable.
2. Paris is the most overrated city on Earth and there is certainly nothing romantic about it. Furthermore, the Mona Lisa is the most overrated painting on Earth.
3. Amsterdam is the shit.
4. The Heineken Factory tour is the best 11 Euros one can spend on the continent.
5. NOBODY in Europe likes immigrants.
6. EVERYBODY hates George W. Bush. Literally every time I told people I was from the United States, the response was, "Well, you didn't vote for Bush did you?"
It was really an awesome trip. I was in Madrid when Real Madrid won La Liga which was out of control and I got to see Cannavaro, Beckham, Sergio Ramos, Casillas and all those dudes up close and personal which was certainly a once in a lifetime experience. Anybody who would like to go back with me, please let me know.
When I returned from Europe, there was one thing that I had been looking forward to since I left: the last 2 episodes of The Sopranos. So, regardless of my fatigue and jetlag, I stayed up until 2 in the morning the night I got back to watch the final two. The second to last one was undoubtedly one of the best hours in television history. The finale was a good episode right up until the end. The killing off of Phil Leotardo (btw, Frank Vincent always plays the douche bag Guinea wise guy in everything) was classic. But to end The Sopranos, one of the best shows ever on television with fucking "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is just pitiful. To end a fine television show with an played out song that people only listen to because it's so bad is despicable. We the viewers were all left with so many questions. What ends up happening to Tony? Will A.J. finally get his ass kicked as we've been hoping for since he grew that stupid as chin strap? What ever happened to Meadow's fiance "Yanks in 4, I was there" Finn? To just cut to black and make me think that my On Demand was broken was just terrible, so terrible. Instead of having some balls and making something, anything happen to Tony Sopranos, David Chase decided to have him eat Funions. I've always said that the show should have ended after Season 5; Season 6 was a whole lot of nothing. Ever since they killed off Aidriana and got rid of the only hot girl on the show just has not been the same, by which I mean good. I feel bad that I chose to watch The Sopranos instead of Family Guy Sundays at 9pm.
Happy 231st Birthday America!
1. ALL Spanish guys walk around like they are the shit, yet many of them have not yet gotten the 1993 memo that the mullet is not and has never been fashionable.
2. Paris is the most overrated city on Earth and there is certainly nothing romantic about it. Furthermore, the Mona Lisa is the most overrated painting on Earth.
3. Amsterdam is the shit.
4. The Heineken Factory tour is the best 11 Euros one can spend on the continent.
5. NOBODY in Europe likes immigrants.
6. EVERYBODY hates George W. Bush. Literally every time I told people I was from the United States, the response was, "Well, you didn't vote for Bush did you?"
It was really an awesome trip. I was in Madrid when Real Madrid won La Liga which was out of control and I got to see Cannavaro, Beckham, Sergio Ramos, Casillas and all those dudes up close and personal which was certainly a once in a lifetime experience. Anybody who would like to go back with me, please let me know.
When I returned from Europe, there was one thing that I had been looking forward to since I left: the last 2 episodes of The Sopranos. So, regardless of my fatigue and jetlag, I stayed up until 2 in the morning the night I got back to watch the final two. The second to last one was undoubtedly one of the best hours in television history. The finale was a good episode right up until the end. The killing off of Phil Leotardo (btw, Frank Vincent always plays the douche bag Guinea wise guy in everything) was classic. But to end The Sopranos, one of the best shows ever on television with fucking "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is just pitiful. To end a fine television show with an played out song that people only listen to because it's so bad is despicable. We the viewers were all left with so many questions. What ends up happening to Tony? Will A.J. finally get his ass kicked as we've been hoping for since he grew that stupid as chin strap? What ever happened to Meadow's fiance "Yanks in 4, I was there" Finn? To just cut to black and make me think that my On Demand was broken was just terrible, so terrible. Instead of having some balls and making something, anything happen to Tony Sopranos, David Chase decided to have him eat Funions. I've always said that the show should have ended after Season 5; Season 6 was a whole lot of nothing. Ever since they killed off Aidriana and got rid of the only hot girl on the show just has not been the same, by which I mean good. I feel bad that I chose to watch The Sopranos instead of Family Guy Sundays at 9pm.
Happy 231st Birthday America!
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