The Angry Fat Man

Okay, I'm tired of people talking about Basketball, mainly because I'm not a big fan of the sport. But there are some issues I'd like to address. Eighteen year-olds, should not really be going to the NBA. Here's a laundry list of issues:

1. Some of them have not grown all they are going to grow. This means that they may get more gangly and need the 4 years in college to grow into their new skin and height.

2. Most of these hot-shots have been the star of their high-school team. They've hot-dogged their way to these accolades and don't understand how to dish the ball, but man can they slam it in your face.....oooooh. How about team play? Did you see those international teams walk all over our hot-shot team in the Olympics? You know why? They were a team, in a team sport. Hmmm.

3. These guys need to get in trouble in college, with booze, women, drugs...you name it, they need to experience it. You're right, if they get in trouble in college maybe they don't get to play. I would rather an idiot get in a fender bender while drunk in college and have to go to prison or at least spend some time in jail and jeapordize a career, rather than have millions of dollars to buy a Hummer (that will kill all the passengers of the other car) and the defense attorney that can get him off.

4. Let them go to school and learn some business sense, or at least try to soak some classes into that blockhead of theirs. That way, when they get thrown out of the NBA or break a leg in 4 years, they may have something to fall back on, or maybe some of that signing bonus left to start their own rap label :-) (Oh....wait)

5. Team players learn fundamentals, and those team players play longer. It's the guys you don't hear about that don't make as much money in one chunk, that end up playing longer, and usually end up making better business choices and have actual "careers".

6. Teams don't end up blowing way too much of the earnings on a short fizzle star, and your price of beer doesn't go up at the coliseum because the owner has to make up that extra 40 million he wasted. (That's our true concern, isn't it?)

7. You get to see your team win, instead of watching that star fade out and take your team with it, or you actually make it to work on monday morning, because the idiot didn't wipe out your car Saturday night or beat up the guy who was car-pool driver this week.

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity" -Samuel Ullman

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 11:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So, I'm reading the TCOMM industry info in magazines and online, etc... When I come across a news story that is interesting yet sorta disturbs me. I always get this wierd question in my head whenever I see a news story about Mr. soandso wins Black award for Engineering, or first African-American to win X award. That question is, where are the white awards? Having heard this question postulated in high school to one of the few black militants in our little inner-city Catholic school, I also know the answer, "ALL THE OTHER AWARDS ARE THE WHITE AWARDS, WE GOTTA MAKE OUR OWN JUST TO WIN SOMETHING!!"

Now, I've seen non-whites win a lot of the top awards that you can name, and have seen non-whites get accolades that EVERYONE can dream of. So, why is it that the "African-American" population of, well, America, has to create their own awards? And another question, who really cares about the Black Award for Advancing Technology except black people? I understand that white folks may hold a majority of tech jobs and that the numbers are starting to slip back into dangerous levels again, but c'mon... If I were to start a White Man's Award for Advancing Technology, wouldn't I be considered racist because I wasn't including minorities? Maybe if we actually had an "Award for Advancing Technology" an african american would win, but we'll never know, because that award would just be considered a mockery of the award that was presented by Black Engineer magazine.

Now you tell me who is clearly re-segregating America?

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 11:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have read yet another story that lowers my faith in humanity even more. In August, 2004, a woman and her boyfriend locked her 7-year-old son in the trunk of their car so they could go into a bar and celebrate her birthday. After the fact, the kid said that he had been put into the trunk of the car at least 10 other times.

A pair of morons that fall into the involuntary sterilized.

Today, the pair pled guilty to felony child abuse and were sentenced to probation and community service. (Story)

Probation and community service? You have to be kidding me? Is that the best that Judge Browder Willis could do? Somehow I doubt it.

Another moron that should never be allowed to make rulings like this again.

Who forgot to put the filter on the gene pool?

"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." - Unknown

Posted by The Angry Fat Man at 04:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Finally, someone had gotten it right...

A family court judge in New York has told a woman that she is no longer supposed to have children. The woman has had seven children by seven different men. Every child has been placed into foster care and the last three children were born addicted to cocaine.

Considering the circumstances, I don't think that the judge went far enough. Not that she could have, but I think this woman should be permanently sterilized. I can't imagine the hell that her children have gone through. Being "raised" by a cocaine addicted mother who has been in and out of court for child neglect for the last five years.

The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting the ruling saying that the mother has the right to procreate. Well, that's true, but come on... If for one second you think that it is a good idea for this woman to have another child, you need to have your head examined. This woman is a drain on the rest of the world and needs to be stopped. If she wants to screw up her own life, that is fine, but don't let her mess up the lives of kids that have nothing to do with it.

This whole situation brings back something that I have always thought. We should make people get a license to breed. We have to be licensed to do everything else, why not making babies? I know, it is difficult to enforce. Hell, almost impossible. And in this case probably wouldn't have changed anything. This woman cares nothing for her children, let alone the law.

I hope that we see more of this type of ruling in the future and that the ACLU falls flat on their faces trying to appeal the rulings.

"Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions." - Spike Milligan

Posted by The Angry Fat Man at 12:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)