It's Okay

So they NFL has decided it's mostly not okay to kill people, but it's perfectly okay to kill dogs.

Michael Vick gets to play in the NFL again, signing today with the Eagles. He has been forgiven to raising dogs to have them killed in battles for betting purposes. And Dante Stallworth gets kicked out for the season for DUI-manslaughter charges. Presumably he'll be allowed to play again, at which point the NFL will have sent another clear message: it's okay to kill people too.

This because the NFL forgives everything. Let's forget the fact that these people are part of a group looked up to be many young people, as well as a lot of other people. Let's forget the fact that the NFL is based on a reputation business of entertainment. Then again I've forgotten that the Roman Coliseum battles were probably more popular than anything we've seen today, including nude pictures of Paris Hilton. The NFL has become a place for the country's losers to make millions running a ball up and down the field.

Shouldn't there be a limit to who gets in? Shouldn't there be a line drawn? What next, a team made up of pedophiles?

Patrick Kane Punch-Out

So the story goes that Patrick Kane and his cousin punched a cabbie for withholding 20 cents in change. And who are the only ones to get into trouble? Not the cabbie.

Now you've got me started on a rant. Here's the deal. It's a crime for a cabbie to not give you your change, or at least it should be. It doesn't matter that Mr. Kane probably has far more money than the cab driver. The fact of the matter is that you've been taken into this vehicle where you'll be required to pay at the end. If he can't give you change then he has to take the hit. Not you.

If you go into a department store and they don't have change for you, what happens? They give you more than you're due, or you don't buy the product there. But in a cab, they've already given you the product, so you can't decide to not pay the fee afterward.

So why isn't the cabbie losing his license? Or at least being fine? Let's get with the program people.

And I never said it was okay to punch someone. But the cabbie is at least as at fault, he simply should have given over more change than was due.

Now if you're a cab rider and don't want to get short-changed, don't ride with this loser.

Billy Mays a Cokehead?

Billy Mays were you really a cokehead? I say who the hell cares.

He could sell a bathing suit to a native of Alaska. Does it matter that he needed a little something to bring him up? I should say not. Most of the comedians I've heard about take a little juice themselves to keep the funny rolling.

I'm not saying coke is right for you, or that I've done it myself. I haven't. I'm not really the upper type. But if that's what allowed Billy Mays to sell everything he's sold throughout his life, let him have that little crutch. I mean, I can think of one particular musician who has totally sucked since he stopped doing heroin (of course that's different).

At any rate, shouldn't we all be thinking about the wonderful joy he brought us in those short commercials and long infomercials? I'd say we should be praising his ability to sell us crap we didn't and still don't need, and not his inability to be perfect.

We will miss John Hughes

The best way to define Ferris Bueller's Day Off is with gusto. It is unlikely there will ever be a scene again with a kid running through backyards to beat their parents home to the mouth stylings of that wonderful song.

Does that song have a name?

Well I'm sure it does. But I don't know it.

Or what about the poor Ferrari. I don't recall anything about no Ferrari's really being dropped off a cliff during the credits. I hope that was a stunt car.

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