Reality Check!

It has been some time since I spoke about the news, or lack there of, and the state of our culture. This is probably because it is as high brow as ever. O.J.'s downgraded his criminal enterprises to armed theft. The media is catching on the the fact Britney Spears might not be a good singer/entertainer. Iraq is the same as it ever was and diet soda may be bad for you. Television game shows are becoming laughably rediculous. The wheels are falling off for the Red Sox and Mets, but surprisingly the Redskins are 2-0.

I generally try not to pay attention to television news. Not because I feel they have a liberal or conservative slant (and if you think any news source doesn't have any slant, I have a bridge to sell you in Arizona), but because they generally report the most retarded happenings as if they have some important impact upon our lives. O.J.'s adventures are a great example. Who nationally gives a shit if O.J. flips his lid and tries to recover his memorabilia? At least he didn't stab anyone. And is it really big news that Britney Spears sucks? I could have told you this 6 years ago. The only thing she ever did worth a shit was when she dressed up as a catholic school girl in her debut video. Trust me, no guy was listening to a word she said. I wasn't.

Guess what people. Diet soda might be hazardous to your health. This wonderful bit of news was released by CBS in a nightly report almost a month ago. You know what else is bad for you? Food. That's right, everything is bad for you. Wine is bad for your liver, but good for your arteries. I think to solve this problem we should all live on rice cakes and water. We'd all be so healthy. Screw that. I drink diet soda because I don't want to be a fat ass.....THIS JUST IN!!!! BEING A FAT ASS IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH! Sure these things may cause cancer, but then again, almost everything causes cancer. Please media news, stop trying to panic the public about something as retarded as drinking an occasional soda. If I don't drop dead after one gulp, I'd just assume it isn't as big a deal as you make it out to be. If it was, you'd force someone to put a warning label on it like cigarettes or sweet and low packets.

Iraq seems to be a happy place now. We're making progress. I know because I've been shown about a million bar graphs and pie charts along with tons of statistics that prove it is. I'm not a complete pacifist. I was all for Afghanistan. We had an objective, and a cause. Iraq was different. We had a cause, but it wasn't ours. Sure, Saddam was a bastard, but it isn't our place to take care of the world's problems and bring democracy to everyone. It if were, we'd be all over Africa right now. If it were, we'd make our friend's the Saudis remove their kingdom and replace it with a democracy. So why aren't we in Africa? No oil. So why aren't we making the Saudis adopt democracy? They control the oil. People want to make it seem like we're the force of righteousness in the region. We're there to help. No we're not. We are there for favorable oil prices. If people, if the government, would just admit this fact, maybe we could make some real progress. Note to readers...I am not aginst our troops. Have em kick ass and take names. Just be aware, many Iraqiis think we're the ones wearing the black hat.

On to lighter subjects...Is it just me, or are television game shows becomming more and more rediculous? First we have Deal or No Deal. You do realize it takes no real skill to play this game. I mean seriously, why not just have a TV game show called Coin Flip. It would essentially be the same thing. Then we have some new karaoke game show with people who can't sing for shit. Real entertainment awaits there. About the only winner I see among the prime time game shows is Are You Smarter Than a 5h Grader. The reason I say it is a winner is, It seems no one is smarter than a 5th grader.

This is season for great sports. Baseball is winding up and the races are tight. Football is 2 weeks into another WTF season. MLSoccer still sucks even with the addition of Beckham. Some women's team won another WNBA title recently. I'd know more about it if anyone gave two shits about women's basketball. My Red Sox are doing what they do best and losing in the clutch, while the evil empire (yanks) has just about the easiest schedule left until the end of the season. The Mets are aflling apart at the seams, and Ken Griffey Jr. proves to us that he is indeed made of balsa wood held together with bubblegum. The Redskins have won their first 2 games, while Donovan McNabb believes he is booed because he's a black quarterback. He plays in Philly folks. This is the city that booed Santa. I don't think color has anything to do with it.

All in all, I'd say everything is normal. Our country as a whole is full of idiots.