NOT OFFENSIVE ENOUGH? WELL HOW'S THIS?

Amongst the deluge of feedback I get, a recent comment really offended me (get it?).  The feed backer felt I had lost some of my offensiveness.  So, let's hope I got my mojo back and offend a few of you in this post.

The New Yorker, with exquisite timing, had a profile of Paul Ryan two weeks before he became the Vice Presidential nominee.  The guy lives in the same town he was born in with other Ryans all over the place.  Jaynesville, Wisconsin.  Never has won a state wide office let alone a national one.  Now we have two very wealthy white Midwesterners running against Mr. Obama and the conservatives could not be happier.  Both opposed gay marriage and Ryan at least is a right to lifer.  He is bright and at the least his budget proposals are specific as opposed to Romney's who just opposes everything and proposes nothing.  Ryan opposes everything about government (one wonders why he wants to run and oversee it) and proposes things which would push us back to the glory days of the 40's and 50's.  If it were up to him, the USA women's success at the Olympics would never have happened because Title IX never would have happened and all the women would be at home, not working, and having babies.  He is more dangerous in many ways than Romney.  On the other hand, he gives the Dems something hard to punch as opposed to the jello that is the Mitter. 

Then we have Tommy Menino who continues to fix my sidewalks and my potholes but still has not found it in his soul to endorse Elizabeth Warren.  It is unfathomable--is it her gender, her Hahvahd connections, her lack of insider status?  Whatever, Scottie is running free and needs to be kicked to the curb.  Elizabeth is doing her part but Tommy needs to get off his fat ass and do something else beside pouring cement onto crumbling pavement.

I promise myself to look at my boy Nate's blog once a week and then find myself looking at it daily.  He is still forecasting that the Prez will end up with close to 300 electoral votes but only has a 4% lead in the popular vote.  This currently includes Obama wins in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa, and Wisconsin; but Colorado just moved into the toss up category.  I worry despite Nate's massive data analysis.

And then we have neither candidate daring to say a word about recent murders in Colorado and at the Sikh temple.  They just want to send flowers and lower flags which I guess is all well and good but the NRA has them scared from even suggesting that perhaps we should ban automatic weapons.  Even with very strict laws in this fair state, 3 women ended up being murdered just this week sitting in a car.  More flowers and memorials; more ministers bemoaning the violence like they always do; and the guns keep coming. One of Neil Young's songs written after 9/11 quotes the comedian Chris Rock who more or less said:  no more flowers and memorials; we need to do something.  Ditto.

Then we have a city in Texas (McAllen, I think) which just built its High School a $60 million dollar football stadium.  So fucked up--only irony is that Barbara and I just began watching old episodes of Friday Night Lights which of course is about High School football in Texas and while it might be good tv, it represents some sort of skewed value system.


SPORTS TALK

Bob Ryan covered the Olympics for the Globe and then semi retired.  He was THE best Globe writer and one of the best in the country. The field is now open for that fool Shaughnessy to take charge.  The only good news is that Chris Gasper who is very good has become the new columnist  The bad news is that the Globe actually had 3 reporters in Baltimore for this series with Orioles--kind of like a death watch or something.  Waiting for the smoke to come out of the Vatican chimney.

Let's be clear that the women outshone the men at the Olympics especially in the team sports.  All due to the explosion of collegiate level women's athletics which in turn (as I mentioned before) is due to Title IX.  Without it, you think the U.S. women would have won gold in basketball or water polo?  Come on and then think about the Mitter and Mr. Ryan.

I hate Lebron but I will now grudgingly admit two things.  The Heat beat the Celtics in game 6 (and then game 7) due to him and then he absolutely carried the men's Olympic team on his back on the way to gold.  He is absolutely at the top of his game.

No more softball at the games but we do have Equestrian and Rhythmic Gymnastics--both pathetic excuses for sport.  Has anyone seen those folks with their ribbons and beach balls doing god knows what.  Oh my.  But guess who is a member of my tribe?  That would be Aly Reisman who actually had her Rabbi quoted in the paper talking about her Bat Mitzvah.

Mr Brady and the boys are back which is good for all fans of all local teams cuz the red flops are both flopping and fighting and will not recover.  Gonzalez may be a good hitter but he is an undermining fool leading a clubhouse uprising.  My boys down in NYC hit a few bumps but when Eric
Chavez is hitting .300 and Freddy Garcia can pitch 6 or more innings, they will be ok.  Please check out what Jeter is doing.

Back to you all in mid September after a Rocky Mountain high.

Hope I offended someone.

Sayonara