Too sad for cake

This week's Too Sad for Cake was another close race....

Coming in second was Jerry Lewis




How many more celebrities need to use derogatory comments in public before they learn their lesson. I have thick skin, but come one. What you say in the privacy of your own home is your own thing, more power too you. But when you are having a Tele-thon on national TV, I think you should watch what you are saying.

This week's "winner" however goes to Whoopi Goldberg. This was her first week on The View, maybe even her first day, and she goes to defend Michael Vick and say dog fighting is okay in the south. I understand that the south is years behind us yankees, but dog fighting; come on. "He's from the South, from the Deep South ... This is part of his cultural upbringing,"
"For a lot of people, dogs are sport," Goldberg said on the show. "Instead of just saying (Vick) is a beast and he's a monster, this is a kid who comes from a culture where this is not questioned."

A few things to note about her comments. First off Vick grew up in Newport News, VA; which is two miles south of Washingotn DC. I would hardley call that the "Deep South." There are a few other things that used to be excepted in the south that thankfully are no longer socially acceptable (slavery, voodoo, witch hunting, cannibalism too name a few).

I read an interesting blog about this whole Vick thing and the writer pointed out that he wonders if there is anything anyone will ever be able to do that everyone condemns. It seems that nowadays everything you do is defended by someone. Dog-fighting is part of his culture. Bathroom sex between two people is normal. Being pregnant and doing coke because you are misunderstood and your parents never loved you. If you drink, drive, and have coke on you; as long as no one is killed (even if you tried to run someone over) is ok. Come people. Stop defending idiots for their stupid actions.

What next, someone will start defending baby fighting?

I hope this never gets old

First off, what Michael Vick did is horrific, terrible, and one of the worst things I've heard in a while. A buddy of mine put it this way: "Vick should be put into a ring with Randy Couture (current UFC champion) and if he doesn't win, drown him."

With that being said, I hope jokes about this never get old. If they do drown me. At our online Fantasy Football Draft (for recreational purposes only) Snow.man drafted Ray Lewis. Edgrimley then went on to call him a murderer Snow.man then had the line of the day: "At least he had the decency to kill human beings." I also enjoy when someone asks what you are doing later saying, "Drowning a few dogs, maybe go to a dog fight or two." As long as we don't gamble on it, its okay. Gambling is illegal.
A company has jumped on this and is making dog chew toys of Michael Vick for your dogs to chew. Hilarious.

Idiot Athletes Part 1

This whole Michael Vick thing is really getting absurd. Just goes to show that most athletes are idiot, over-paid, man-giants.

First, its funny that for years people defended Michael VIck for not being nearly as big of a screw-up as his brother Marcus Vick. After all the dust settles, Michael is at least as big of a screw-up, maybe bigger. Marcus was never found guilty of a felony, which is what Michael could be looking at here.

Secondly, and most importantly is: dog-fighting, really dogfighting?? Who does this? They had a story on dog-fighting and Michael Vick last night on Sportscenter, and it eventually got too graphic and I could no longer watch it. First they talked to a variety of athletes discussing the allure of dog fighting. Many compared it to watching other incredibly violent sports like boxing and ultimate fighting. First, I can't stand these either. There is no sport about two people beating each other to the point of near death. Secondly, these are dogs they are instinctive animals with no say in the matter. They then showed video of some of these dogs beating and attacking each other to near death, and I'm sure often times to death.

What sane person would do this??? I mean really?? I can't even find the anger-words to describe this adequately. Vick should go down hard for this, especially since now they have an informant who is a police officer says Vick is a "heavyweight" in the dog-fighting underbelly. He's been betting and running games since college.

On the flip-side of competitive sports, the Milwaukee Journal ran story today about the rise of chess, especially for the younger audience. The article explained the appeal of chess; its simple enough yet complex, its safe and non-violent, and is the only sport where a 1st grader can sit across from a high-schooler, and could actually beat them. I think its awesome that more and more people are playing chess. If we could only convince athletes to play chess and run chess leagues instead of watching innocent animals brutalize each other in their basement.