- I decided today to take on some controversial topics to stir this blog up a little.  Enjoy!

- Can all of the Espn talking heads stop throwing admiration and adulation on Andy Reid for going to work 3 days following his son's death?  I can't think of a more heartless, gutless reaction to such a tragedy.  Even if he doesn't give a shit, he needs to be home to support the mother (his wife) who just lost her first born son and his other kids who just lost their older brother.  Reid always put coaching ahead of his family.  Even when his kids were busy becoming drug addicts, he barely noticed.  Hey fat fuck, how many of your kids' signature events did you miss over the years? How many times did your players needs come first ahead of your family's needs? 

I'm not saying that coaching a football team in the NFL is easy, but if you are going to spend almost all of your waking hours becoming a mediocre at best coach, then don't have kids!!!!! It is not fair to them.  It is not fair to your wife.  I wish somebody would just call a spade a spade.  Reid is a shitty dad and probably almost feels relief that one of his "embarrassing" kids is gone.  He is not being strong, he is being feeble and weak by going back to coaching so soon. 

- Why do I get a feeling when I watch Barrack Obama's campaign commercials that he sometimes forgets that he IS the incumbant president?  I have only seen one ad (the equal pay for equal work) that actually talks about his accomplishments in office.  All I see are his plans for the next 4 years and his ridiculous rips of Romney.  You would think that such an ambassador of hope and change would be talking about that, but he doesn't.  We are talking about a man who had Democratic control over the House and Senate during his first 2 years in office.  All I hear from the left are 2 things " he inherited the worst economic crisis since the 1940's blah blah blah" and " the tea partiers won't let him do anything now that they have control of the house blah blah blah".  At the end of the day, leaders are judged on their accomplishments, not how many excuses they can make.  When Obama took office, yes, our country was in a bad place, but here we are 4 years later and we are no better off at all.  The unployment rate has been over 8% real and 15% adjusted for every month of his presidency and our debt has risen by over 4 trillion at the same time.  That is what he should be judged on. 

-  The summer olympics have been outstanding so far except for one small thing......THE FACT THAT EVERY NEWS OUTLET THINKS IT IS BREAKING A STORY WHEN AN EVENT HAPPENS AND FEELS THE NEED TO REPORT IT AND BLAST IT AT THE EXPENSE OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO WATCH THE SHOW IN PRIMETIME!  I get it.  There is a 5 hour delay and many of the events are shown on tape delay.  What is wrong with simply putting a spoiler alert tab to click on your website if people want to see the results.  I intentially avoid espn, si, yahoo, and any other sports related website and actually changed my homepage in hopes that I can actually avoid knowing who won an event.  It drives me nuts.  Even the radio does it.

- I think the NFL needs to stand its ground when it comes to the bountygate penalties.  Even though the commissioner might get deposed.  It would set a very clear precedent if they cave and start reducing the penalties.  Either you have evidence or you don't.  If you do, great, bring it on.  The NFL has way deeper pockets than Jonathon Vilma and can easily squash any future litigation by winning and bankrupting the ring leader of this disgusting mess.  If they don't have evidence, look out.  They are fucked.  Settling tells me that there is a lot of interpretation and inuendo in these punishments and very little proof.

- I don't think there has ever been a show on television that I have started out so high on and have dropped so low on as quickly as the HBO show "The Newsroom".  I thought it was curious that such a flaming liberal like Alan Sorkin would write a show about a Republican newscaster.  The first 2 episodes were riveting and well written.  Jeff Daniel's speech at the beginning of episode 1 was stunning.  I was hooked.  Then, starting in episode 3, Sorkin started rearing his ugly liberal head.  Daniels became so liberal (while at the same time always mentioning that he is a "registered Republican") that I thought that POS Bill Maher morphed into his brain.  This combined with the 2 longest running captain obvious subplots in television history (Jim and Maggie will hook up and Will and Mackenzie will get back together), while at the same time inexplicably ignoring the sex appeal of one of the hottest women on the planet (Olivia Munn) make this show almost unwatchable.

- Isn't the point of the 1st amendment to give people the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression?  If that is the basis of our country, then why do people flip out so much when somebody doesn't share their own opinion?  I'm talking about this whole nonsense brewing about Chick fil a.  Let me make this clear.  I believe that people have the right to their own opinions.  That is a right that I take very seriously.  You don't have to have the same opinion as me and I can think you are crazy, but I will fight for your right to think that way regardless.  Just as you have the freedom to support a stance on gay marriage, another person also has the freedom to think that a marriage should be between a man and a woman, as the bible very clearly states.  I personally believe in both rights, but it doesn't seem like the supporters of gay marriage think that people should have the right to think any other way besides the way that they think.