Wow. I need some Geritol or something. I played catch with an 11-year-old kid today and my freakin hamstring is killing me. The kid did have me running all over the place and it was the first exercise I've had in 2 months (!) but Jeez...

But on to the real world...

My state representatives have been virtually making out with each other over the fact that they passed a state budget on time for the first time in 20 years! In the words of Chris Rock: "You're supposed to, you low expectation-having-mother-f(ers)!" Damn!

And semi-connected to that is the fact that locally, some wankers are going to the state government for MORE money to build a freakin soccer stadium. Now, let's just forget for a second how much soccer sucks. It ranks up there with tennis. Both suck, but if you're going to force me to watch either, at least it better be women playing...yes, because they're women, not because I like the sport...that's my point.

Anyway, it must have been 10-12 years ago, some folks came to our local government and asked for money to build a new (minor league) baseball stadium. There was the promise that once was built the government...I mean the taxpayers...wouldn't have to pay a dime to run it...yeah...now it costs us about 2 million bucks a year. Now comes along this freakin soccer stadium. These wankers already got somewhere around 12 million in state money and that was supposed to be it, now they want another 9 mil. Man...if I were a state rep I'd put my foot up someone's soccer-loving ass. Make those no-hands-using jamokes play at a city rec center...amongst the broken glass, syringes & used condoms.

Washington DC ALMOST had it right. They got manhandled into agreeing to build a stadium for the baseball team formerly known as the Montreal Expos. Then at the last minute the city council told them to stick it - they weren't paying for it. All these new jerseys & hats were going to be obsolete because the Expos weren't going to move there if they didn't get they're free stadium. But someone got to somebody and the city backed down or took some lame-ass compromise. Now the Washington Nationals are playing in an old stadium until the poverty-stricken city can put themselves into hock for a stadium where the only black folks will be the ones working in the stands - same as the baseball stadium here in Rochester.

Now there's commercials on TV both for and against some new arena to be built in Manhattan somewhere. There's funky contract shenanigans going on. Unions are being unions to get temporary construction jobs. The whole thing smells bad.

I guess that's the way things are done in the seedy world of government.

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I need to find a way to reconcile my deep conviction to non-violence and my desire to beat the living hell out of some people. I just want to bitch slap some folks as I try to figure out what the hell they are thinking.

Because of the school shooting in Minnesota, these NRA losers actually want teachers to have guns.. I've seen teachers get confused at the copy machine, you're gonna give 'em guns? Once, I worked at a school where they actually sent out a memo reminding teachers not to let students put their heads in the paper cutter. I swear it's true. Thank god I had that reminder.

Of course the next logical conclusion is the teacher who caresses his Barretta to "motivate" his little test-takers.