The Cowtown Chronicles

Yep, that’s General David Petraeus (captured via iPhone on my TV) right here in Fort Worth. Sorry you missed the game now?

I HIGHLY encourage everyone who is interested to go to the Cowtown Rugby Tournament.

The Flying Saucer will also be hosting their annual Beerfest, featuring the best of the best from around the world (that they can get here in Texas). This event last year was so good I don’t remember half of it!

If you’ve never been to a rugby match before and would like some play-by-play, make a comment or e-mail me, and we’ll meet up at the pitch (it’s a pitch, not a field - you’ll be lost without me)!

Bernie, you should totally come out to the tournament so you can see just how different this level of rugby is than what you’ve probably experienced before.

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Even if I didn’t have a dog, I couldn’t imagine doing the things that Michael Vick has admitted he’s done to them by pleading guilty to the charges against him.

Now this representative of the NAACP wants us to forgive Vick for his behaviour and says that he thinks he’s gotten more negative press than he would have gotten had he murdered a person, and that he should be allowed to go back to the NFL and earn millions as if he hadn’t committed this HENIOUS crime.

Here’s the thing: He’s gotten bad publicity about this not because the whole world is full of “dog lovers” (since Mr. White seems to think that only dog lovers could be upset about Vick’s disgusting behaviour), but because he DELIBERATELY victimized another living thing that is weaker than him FOR FUN!!! FOR THE PURPOSES OF HIS OWN SICK ENTERTAINMENT! Trying to spin Michael Vick as the victim in this situation debases everything the NAACP has stood for over the years, as they’ve always worked to protect people who are in a position of weakness, (do I really have to remind people that for a LONG TIME people of color were considered “animals”?) can’t Mr. White and his associates have some sympathy for the animals who were brutally abused and killed for nothing more than entertainment?

Mr. White, dogfighting is different than deer hunting because it pits two animals which have been abused and traumatized in a fight to the death for nothing more than the entertainment of people. I’m not a hunter, and even I know that most hunters not only use what they kill for food, but they also choose more humane methods of killing their prey than slamming them into a concrete floor, strangling them, hanging them, drowning them, or wetting them down and electrocuting them. Providing even an HINT of defense of this kind of action seriously calls into question your ability to see a difference between right and wrong, Mr. White.

Even more troubling and disgusting about Michael Vick’s behaviour is the fact that he obviously found nothing at all wrong with it until he faced jail time and the loss of his exalted status as a star in the NFL. Now he’s all sorry and contrite and you, Mr. White, expect the rest of the world to forgive him “because he’s redeemable?” Deliberately killing animals because they’re not good enough to participate in bloodsport for entertainment is just about the LEAST forgiveable crime I can think of. The only thing I can think of that would be worse would be if it were people instead of dogs.

Michael Vick should have stayed in college so at least he’d have a degree to fall back on when the NFL (or hopefully, the fans) tell him he’s not welcome back.

If I choose a side in a contest where I have no opinion either way of the outcome, I generally lose. In other words, if I don’t care who is playing in a given football/baseball/basketball game, but I choose to root for one team over another, it seems to me that the team I choose nearly always loses.

I’ll be accepting money to root *against* your team in the next important game, post in the comments how much you’re willing to pay!

I guess since my Bengals aren’t in it, I’m pulling for da Bears. I don’t really care either way, but I’m confident that several people will ask me today. I generally dislike most things from Indiana, and I’ve enjoyed my time in Chicago, so they get my backing.

Of course now I’ve doomed them to lose, just like the Buckeyes.