Yesterday, the only wrestling show in town, the WWE, suspended 10 as yet unnamed wrestlers for testing positive for steroids. (See this AP story.) Wow! I guess the only surprise here is that it was only 10 wrestlers. Had one of their own not just murdered his wife and child, the surprise would have been that they suspended anybody at all.
I've been watching wrestling off and on for over 20 years. (My wife is glad it's more off than on now.) As I've gotten older the wrestlers have gotten bigger and more physically defineed. I watched a relatively skinny little wrestler by the name of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, go from thin with a big nose, to being humungous, and dare I say, "buff". Is it any wonder that these guys are mad all of the time?
I want to know when they are going to suspend Vince McMahon? He's pretty cut- and he spends all of his time around wrestlers who are getting busted for steroids, and he uses the same doctors that have plead guilty to charges of supplying the steroids. As my mama always said, "If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck..." Okay, so maybe my mom never said that - I might be confusing her with Groucho Marx, but you get my point.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Dear Richard Cranium
Dear Richard Cranium,
I saw you in your car today. You were so cool! You probably didn't notice me because you were thinking cool thoughts. I was the guy in the crosswalk. I just wanted to thank you for pulling your car right in front of me into the crosswalk so that I could see up close how cool it was. And that gesture I made as you pulled away, spinning your wheels so fast that they squealed and left black marks across the white lines, that was my decidedly uncool thumbs up. Being that I am not used to dealing with people as cool as you, I got my digits mixed up and didn't put my thumb up at all.
By the way, and this is rather bold of me to say, I am sure you have a very large penis. I can just tell by how cool you are and by how super-cool your car is.
I'm not worthy,
-Eric
I saw you in your car today. You were so cool! You probably didn't notice me because you were thinking cool thoughts. I was the guy in the crosswalk. I just wanted to thank you for pulling your car right in front of me into the crosswalk so that I could see up close how cool it was. And that gesture I made as you pulled away, spinning your wheels so fast that they squealed and left black marks across the white lines, that was my decidedly uncool thumbs up. Being that I am not used to dealing with people as cool as you, I got my digits mixed up and didn't put my thumb up at all.
By the way, and this is rather bold of me to say, I am sure you have a very large penis. I can just tell by how cool you are and by how super-cool your car is.
I'm not worthy,
-Eric
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Senate non-debate
It seems to me that this whole affair of whether or not to debate a non-binding resolution of disagreement with the President's planned 'Surge' of troops into Iraq is a bunch of hoowey. There, I've said it. Hooey.
The Republicans, love 'em or leave 'em, are very good at framind discussions. They have framed the proposed Senate resolutions announcing displeasure with the President's tactics as an issue of supporting our troops. As long as they continue to do this, they have the upper hand. Who could, or would want to, argue against the troops?
The key Democratic Party players are so caught up with the feeding frenzy that the 2008 Presidential race has already become that they have dropped the ball, pretty much across the board. Clinton, Obama, Byden, they are all too busy saying how they could do a better job to be able to do anything about the horrible situation that we are in. Throw in John Edwards calling for a complete withdrawal by the end of the year and Joe Lieberman (when did he become a Republican?) saying back the President at all costs, and it is one convoluted mess.
Here's an idea, instead of worrying about getting (re)elected, do something about the people dying in Iraq. Seriously. Get over yourselves.
The Republicans, love 'em or leave 'em, are very good at framind discussions. They have framed the proposed Senate resolutions announcing displeasure with the President's tactics as an issue of supporting our troops. As long as they continue to do this, they have the upper hand. Who could, or would want to, argue against the troops?
The key Democratic Party players are so caught up with the feeding frenzy that the 2008 Presidential race has already become that they have dropped the ball, pretty much across the board. Clinton, Obama, Byden, they are all too busy saying how they could do a better job to be able to do anything about the horrible situation that we are in. Throw in John Edwards calling for a complete withdrawal by the end of the year and Joe Lieberman (when did he become a Republican?) saying back the President at all costs, and it is one convoluted mess.
Here's an idea, instead of worrying about getting (re)elected, do something about the people dying in Iraq. Seriously. Get over yourselves.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Nature
The word "nature" is an artificial construct.
Humans are animals, just like beavers and prairie dogs. But, we would never think to call a beaver dam or prairie dog town unnatural. Why do we call a human dam or human town unnatural, a.k.a. technological or civilized or whatever your favorite descriptive term is that humans use to try and forget that they are part of nature.
I am not espousing human "progress", quite the contrary. I think nature is the sum of the earth and everthing on it. Humans tend to excuse their mess by saying it's not part of nature. In doing this, a subconscious hierarchy is established. To follow this theory, due to the development of the human ego, it is implicit that human constructs are superior to nature. But, of course, this is a logical fallacy since humans are a part of nature.
To me, that means to truly be superior, humans must elevate all of nature. Do we still get to have cities and cars and computers? You betcha. But, we need to make sure that we are not breaking the system and if we are, to fix it.
I've always thought the real shame of humanity is to be intelligent enough to see the harm that we are creating, but not wise enough to stop it.
Humans are animals, just like beavers and prairie dogs. But, we would never think to call a beaver dam or prairie dog town unnatural. Why do we call a human dam or human town unnatural, a.k.a. technological or civilized or whatever your favorite descriptive term is that humans use to try and forget that they are part of nature.
I am not espousing human "progress", quite the contrary. I think nature is the sum of the earth and everthing on it. Humans tend to excuse their mess by saying it's not part of nature. In doing this, a subconscious hierarchy is established. To follow this theory, due to the development of the human ego, it is implicit that human constructs are superior to nature. But, of course, this is a logical fallacy since humans are a part of nature.
To me, that means to truly be superior, humans must elevate all of nature. Do we still get to have cities and cars and computers? You betcha. But, we need to make sure that we are not breaking the system and if we are, to fix it.
I've always thought the real shame of humanity is to be intelligent enough to see the harm that we are creating, but not wise enough to stop it.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Weapons of Mass Destruction
I am very disturbed by the latest happenings in world politics, namely, North Korea's testing of a nuclear device. I find it disturbing on many levels.
I am disturbed that another nuclear weapon has been made, with rumors that N. Korea has enough plutonium for 9 bombs. We already have enough nuclear weaopns on the planet to completely eradicate all life and actually crack the planet into pieces. It just seems that the more weapons that are made, the higher the likelihood that they will be used.
I am disturbed that the United States foreign policy seems to be "Do the opposite of whatever we should do" when it comes to N. Korea. N. Korea wants to talk, the U.S. doesn't want to. S. Korea sets up multilateral talks a week before the nuclear testing and Secretary Rice decides to skip the meeting to spend an extra day in Kurdish held Iraq on her 'surprise' visit to Iraq, which causes the talks to be cancelled completely. Hadn't the President been saying that the only reason we were not in a discussion with N. Korea was because they needed to multilateral and not bilateral?
I am disturbed that a President can tell us to never forget September 11, 2001 and that we must be vigilant and fight terror throughout the world; AND yet, go to war on fabricated charges of Weapons of Mass Destruction, while not even talking with the emissaries of a power, whom he deemed part of the Axis of Evil, that openly admits that it has Weapons of Mass Destruntion asd is creating more. How can you forget, Mr. President?
I am disturbed that after six years in office, "the most powerful man in the free world" can still not pronounce the word "nuclear".
I am disturbed most of all by the fact that the vast majority of people don't seem to care at all. As election day quickly approaches, I know that 85% of eligible voters are not going to vote, and no matter how many phone calls I make, or emails I write, that this is not going to change. More people seem to care about Paris Hilton's latest sexploits than how or if the U.S. is going to deal with a man they have proclaimed a 'madman', who has become a madman with nuclear strike capability.
I am disturbed that another nuclear weapon has been made, with rumors that N. Korea has enough plutonium for 9 bombs. We already have enough nuclear weaopns on the planet to completely eradicate all life and actually crack the planet into pieces. It just seems that the more weapons that are made, the higher the likelihood that they will be used.
I am disturbed that the United States foreign policy seems to be "Do the opposite of whatever we should do" when it comes to N. Korea. N. Korea wants to talk, the U.S. doesn't want to. S. Korea sets up multilateral talks a week before the nuclear testing and Secretary Rice decides to skip the meeting to spend an extra day in Kurdish held Iraq on her 'surprise' visit to Iraq, which causes the talks to be cancelled completely. Hadn't the President been saying that the only reason we were not in a discussion with N. Korea was because they needed to multilateral and not bilateral?
I am disturbed that a President can tell us to never forget September 11, 2001 and that we must be vigilant and fight terror throughout the world; AND yet, go to war on fabricated charges of Weapons of Mass Destruction, while not even talking with the emissaries of a power, whom he deemed part of the Axis of Evil, that openly admits that it has Weapons of Mass Destruntion asd is creating more. How can you forget, Mr. President?
I am disturbed that after six years in office, "the most powerful man in the free world" can still not pronounce the word "nuclear".
I am disturbed most of all by the fact that the vast majority of people don't seem to care at all. As election day quickly approaches, I know that 85% of eligible voters are not going to vote, and no matter how many phone calls I make, or emails I write, that this is not going to change. More people seem to care about Paris Hilton's latest sexploits than how or if the U.S. is going to deal with a man they have proclaimed a 'madman', who has become a madman with nuclear strike capability.
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