Monday, May 5, 2008

Fleeing Thoughts: Blood Sports

In this booking mug released by the Austin Police Dept., Chicago Bears running back Cedric Benson is shown after he was arrested Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Austin, Texas. Benson allegedly failed a sobriety test while operating a 30-foot boat, then resisting arrest before being hit with pepper spray and dragged ashore by officers.  Benson faces charges of boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest after the incident Saturday night on Lake Travis, Travis County Sheriff's Department spokesman Rog
-Cedric Benson says he wasn't intoxicated when he was arrested for drunken boating the other day in Texas. Dude, look at your mug shot. If this is your sober face, that explains your lack of production on the football field.

-Sports guy Mike North on Cedric and his water craft: "His boat only goes two yards, then stalls."

-Barack Obama says the gas tax holiday proposed by Hilary Clinton and John McCain would only save consumers about $25 over the summer. Yeah, well, that's 25 bucks I wouldn't have otherwise, Senator. And yes, the proposal is pandering, but it's the kind of pandering I like. Who says you can't have a short-term pandering solution while you go about figuring out a long-term solution? Go ahead and pander a little, Senator Obama. You might actually win the election then.

-It's all about legitimacy, who has it and who doesn't. Clinton and Obama both appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox recently. Why would they choose to legitimize someone who is nothing more than an angry liar? Neither of them are going to win over the average Fox News viewer. Bad move. Don't they realize how it makes their candidacies less legitimate? Ralph Nader is looking better all the time.

-Might it be time to start a serious conversation about the end of horse racing? With the death of another horse after a Kentucky Derby, it might be a time to re-evaluate whether this "sport" is really just another way of inflicting cruelty on animals. Dick Duchossois, who runs Arlington Park Race Track, referred to horses in a radio interview with WGN's Spike O'Dell as "athletes." Athletes they may be, but Kerry Wood never got euthanized after any one of his physical break downs.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe they should put Kerry down...might be better for your cubbies.