Postings from The Pit

Postings from The Pit

Greetings, sports fans, and welcome to another fine entry from PfTP, or My Opinions and Why They Matter.    I won’t bore you all with the details of my life, but I will say that things have been a lot more Interesting (in the Chinese sense) than normal.  However, with a year like this….interesting doesn’t even begin to describe, which raises a whole host of personal questions that I won’t delve into here.

Anyway, enough of that bad jazz, time for the news:

So Long, Eddie…we hardly knew ye.

From the Good People at AP by way of Yahoo News comes a story of the death of a good man and a wonderful performer.

I first saw him, like most people in the south who like wrasslin’, on WCW Monday Nitro back in the early 90s when wrestling had a larger casual fan base.  I’ve always been a wrestling fan, it’s true, but this was exciting for me because all aspects of wrestling were being shown in unlikely places.   And here’s Eddie, from a wrestling family ala The Hart Family or The Von Erichs.   And boy does it show.  

Then I learn that he’s plagued with all sorts of substance abuse problems that are typical of those in that particular lifestyle.   You take meds for the pain, you take meds to help lose weight or to gain muscle, plus a whole host of recreational pharmaceuticals that are available from groupies and other performers.    Eddie became a victim to the worst one:  Alcohol.  So much so, even his own friends publicly admitted that they wanted him to seek help.  Finally in 2001 he did and overcame his demons.   Not long after that, he became the World Champion which is something that every wrestler wants, regardless of if it’s fake….excuse me, pre-determined or not.   It’s an achievement.  It means that you are at the top of the heap and in favor both by fans, by management, and by the boys and girls in the locker room.   In Eddie’s case, it helped that, aside from being a drunk, he was a real stand-up guy.

And now he’s dead.  Pity, because the world could use more guys like him.   RIP Eddie “I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal” Guerrero, you will be missed.

(Un)Intelligent Design

Or: How to dismiss the works of Science using a straw man, a theory that isn’t and theology wrapped in a pseudoscientific candy shell.

Really, I can’t do any better than what this guy said about the whole subject.   Go ahead and read it…I’ll wait.

This whole thing isn’t really new.  Bill Hicks mentioned it during one of his bits on the Arizona Bay CD.  “Doesn’t it creep you out that God might be messing with you.  My nightmare is I go up to the pearly gates and St. Peter asks, “Do you believe in dinosaurs?” “Yes?” BANG!  AHHH! “Off to hell you go, God was just messing with you.”   Frankly, I am glad that those fine folks voted all those bastards out of the school board.  That’s all we need is more morons in public office.

And speaking of morons in public office….

Bush League Tent

From the fine folks at AFP by way of Yahoo News comes the departing Shrub from Mongolia.   I can imagine the conversation now:

Mongol #1:  “So you’re saying you believe that some unknown space alien of some sort created all this?” he says as he motions to everything around him in his tent.
W:  Well, yes.  And We also believe that life is sacred and should be preserved at all costs.
Mongol #2:  “Yeah, but at least we would make sure a dying woman is able to die with dignity instead of taking up her husband’s valuable resources like his health, sanity and money.   And you call *us* barbarians…”
Mongol #3:  “And what about this global warming we read about?  Don’t think it exists?  I have news for you, Bubba,   Many of our families have gone through the dzud more often than before,” he said as he fondled his ritual dagger.
W:  (laughs nervously)

One of these things is not like the others….  China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia.  Of all these countries, how many supported the Invas…..excuse me, the War in Iraq?  China?  Nope.  South Korea?  Not really, too many other problems like a Psycho Dictator at their backdoor.  Japan?  At first, until their people started being kidnapped. Mongolia?  You can lay even money on that one, Bubba.  Which begs the question:   Could it be that this is a prize area sought by both China and the US as a trading partner.   Mongolia has been a central state between the Russians and the Chinese, world powers that have traded back and forth over it.  Don’t think for one moment that Shrub will not use Mongolia as a lever to get China and Japan into the War, and North Korea against South Korea as well.

Bearing this in mind, I don’t see anything worthwhile coming from this.   Poll numbers for Bush Inc. are about at Clinton level during the blowjob non-scandal, which suits me.  Herr Frist has a look on his face that is priceless as he slowly watches his presidential hopes swirl down the drain during his apoplexy viz. The Intelligence Committee closed door hearings, Ah-nuld watches his political future go up in flames as he learns never to mess with nurses, especially nurses unions, and The Hammer gets pinned like the jackass that he is.

It’s all good, but like all good things, it must end.  Just like this column, unfortunately.  Be well, do good work, and keep your powder dry.