The Apocalypse

Yet other signs that the Apocalypse is nearly upon us:

I read today that the Olympic Village was passing out condoms to the athletes. Great, just great! And we hold these athletes up as some sorts of paragons. Ha Ha!

A Detroit Free Press columnist suggested that maybe the elected DC are competent enough to give us health care. Is this guy nuts? How did he get his job? Does he have something on someone in high places? Is it nepotism? Again and again, the Bozos in DC are fouling up things. This columnist even suggested that the President handled himself well at the recent health summit. I guess this guys bias is showing--pretty clearly. I heard some of it on the radio, driving back and forth to class, and the President surely didn't seem very, ahem, "statesmanlike." Rather, he sounded like a, well, Chicago politician.

The Olympic hockey gold medal game, between the US and Canada, goes into OT. So, what goes on the television in our house? Yep, you guessed it--reruns of Deal or No Deal. And, what makes this worse, Olympic skating, luge, skiing, racing, etc. are watched.

An article profiles a couple of successful schools and the headmaster/principal notes all the programs and policies of the school, but notes they are not nearly as important as quality teachers. Now, who's going to listen to that one? Or, more likely, who's going to admit that there are far too many teachers out there who are of poor quality. Again, note the easiest curricula and the lowest GPAs belong to whom???? Yep, our graduating teachers.

I just finished a book the other day on the Leo Frank case. Frank was a Northern Jew who ran a pencil factory in Atlanta, GA in the 1910s. A 13-year old girl was murdered and he was tried and convicted of the crime, sentenced to be electrocuted. He received a commutation to life in prison, but, somehow, was kidnapped from jail and lynched. As terrible as that seems, the book's most sordid, chilling parts were those that showed the gov't--police, prosecutor, judge, elected officials--as biased, dishonest, incompetent. Evidence was fixed, witnesses coerced or bribed, "facts" changed, etc. The book, in addition to the light it shined on anti-Semitism, was a reminder of just how dangerous gov't can be in the hands of the wrong people.

Can there be any more disingenuous utterance than some professional (or, I suppose college) athlete who says, "I just want to contribute," "I just want to help my team," "I want to put my team in a position to win," or some other such nonsense. Then why can't more players bunt or hit behind the runner? OK, Polanco could and did do those things, oh, but he left. Can you say "play out option," "millions of dollars," "transfer," etc.???? Who believes this crap? I don't care what they make--I don't have to watch or go to games (and I don't). But don't say this silly stuff and expect not to be laughed at.