Curling Rant

The reason NBC spent two nights covering US men's and women's curling was that, the other US teams had done so poorly in more glamorous events those days. As you know, US networks only cover events where we have a chance to place Gold in. Personally I'd rather than some awesome footage of a bobsled beefing it on a turn regardless of who's country it was.

I don't know what qualifies an event as a sport? Why is Ice Dancing a sport? Why is curling? Me, I define a sport as a physically challenging competition where you risk a serious injury in pursuit of the gold. Even cross country skiing qualifies in my book because the Biathlon involves guns. In curling, the greatest risk seems to be embarrassment...or perhaps broom-handle splinters.

Turns out a friend of mine from High School, Laura Fawcett, is in Torino with the US figure skating team. Which got me thinking about High School and realizing my 20 year reunion is coming up next year! Yikes!

Happy Velentines

I hope you guys had a good Valentines Day! I think Dick Cheney was just trying to play cupid with his shotgun.

They way the news sounds, the they're making it out like the Vice President didn't tell anybody about the accidental shooting (actually the local authorities ie. police, were informed). It's just that the White House press corp was upset because Cheney's people didn't give them a press release immediately after the "incident" citing this as an another example of the administrations secretiveness and lack of disclosure of it's miss-steps (Weapons of Mass Destruction much?). Though it seems to me, the press corp mostly upset because some podunk local newspaper scooped them on the story.

It seems to me that the front page news should be spending more time looking into the fiasco that is government aid for Katrina.

http://www.ktbs.com/news-detail.html?cityid=1&hid=27862

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9369937/

How about we just fire everybody in FEMA and just close that agency? Or make it into a private non-profit charity? Just give us each back a couple hundred dollars from our taxes that would have gone to FEMA and let us donate that to the Red Cross or somebody. That way, if they did something this stupid, I could at least stop donating money to them and send it some other organization that's doing a better job.

Britney Babyseat

In that I publish a cartoon/column every week, people have been asking me about what I think about this absurd situation with riots in some Muslim countries about these cartoons published in a Danish paper. I think much of the riots are politically motivated in the same way Fascists encouraged riots against a minority group to galvanize their political base through unified hate.

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/Mo_Cartoons.jpg

The sad thing is that some of the cartoons aren't even that clever.

I just want to point out that the issue isn't that Muslims don't have a sense of humor (they do, or at least the ones I know). There is a fundamental restriction in Islam against drawing/painting an image of the Prophet Mohammed.

In a related case of absurd Political Correctness, it came to my attention that a British city council has banned Winnie the Pooh's Piglet so as not to offend a Muslim employee.

Happy Chinese New Year

I've had a busy 2 weeks working on radio for Planet Tan and new outdoor billboards. I'm having to work with a rather uptight media buying company in Dallas that has no-sense of humor, which doesn't help. Giselle's parents are coming in town to visit tomorrow for her birthday and we're heading down to Nassau for the weekend (a trip we had to postpone last year due to her father's health).

Happy Chinese New Year.

Gung hay fat choy (Cantonese)
Xin nian yu kuai (Mandarin)

Giselle made an eCard:
http://www.gippydesign.com/2006