So you claim you are a big Yankee fan?

As the baseball season hits it's third week after both the Yankees and Mets have opened their new stadium and the both David Wright and Derek Jeter have christened the new parks with big homeruns it has come to my attention that baseball fans should be silenced.

I have heard Mets fans for one straight week bitch and moan about Citi Field and how bad the sight-lines are, how long the concession lines are an how much Dodger Blue is out there... The rest of the complaints are mostly legit but only a scum Met fan would complain about a part of the stadium that honors Jackie Robinson. Somebody tell whitebread that the world doesn't revolve around your crappy Long Island town.

But Yankee fans are worse, they board their trains and busses from NJ and Connecticut decked out from head to toe in pinstripes. All talking about the good old days of 1996 and 1998 and claiming they've been die-hards since Roberto Kelly was the next Mickey Mantle. They speak nostalgically about the House that Ruth built and tell you how passionate they are... except one little small thing somebody forgot to tell them that YANKEE JERSEYS DON'T HAVE NAMES ON THE BACK.


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Reading the NY Times

Couple of interesting NYT articles caught my eye today.

Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A

The documents were released with minimal redactions, indicating that President Obama sided against current and former C.I.A. officials who for weeks had pressed the White House to withhold details about specific interrogation techniques. Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, had argued that revealing such information set a dangerous precedent for future disclosures of intelligence sources and methods

...In dozens of pages of dispassionate legal prose, the methods approved by the Bush administration for extracting information from senior operatives of Al Qaeda are spelled out in careful detail — like keeping detainees awake for up to 11 straight days, placing them in a dark, cramped box or putting insects into the box to exploit their fears.

Together, the four memos give an extraordinarily detailed account of the C.I.A.’s methods and the Justice Department’s long struggle, in the face of graphic descriptions of brutal tactics, to square them with international and domestic law. Passages describing forced nudity, the slamming of detainees into walls, prolonged sleep deprivation and the dousing of detainees with water as cold as 41 degrees alternate with elaborate legal arguments concerning the international Convention Against Torture.

TOR's Take:
Panetta's agrues that revealing this information sets a dangerous precedent for future methods. What exactly have they revealed in this which is even remotely new or novel.. We have heard about water-boarding, naked head-stands and rabid dogs a hundred times. From what I can tell, the the only new thing I'm seeing is that they sent a few instects into a room.

If this is the best interogation the CIA has we are trouble, what's next they are going to have the terrorits sit on a plane in between those two twins from the Guiness Book of World Records and a screaming baby on his lap?

funny you mention fat people on planes. The NY Times also reported that 'Obese Airline Passengers Must Purchase an Additional Seat'

United Airlines will start bumping obese passengers from sold-out flights and asking them to buy two tickets or upgrade to business class, the airline announced. United says it received more than 700 complaints last year from passengers who were uncomfortable because the person next to them "infringed on their seat," a spokeswoman for the company said.

I am 100% behind this thought and think that if you ahve a size 48 ass you should need two metrocards


An unrelated NY Times report says

Citigroup reports a profit bank’s reported income of $1.6 billion was helped by an accounting adjustment that allowed a one-time gain of $2.5 billion on its derivative positions

I need to figure out how to make one of those one-time accounting adjusments to my savings account

Hey Homless guy, do you mind not peeing in the subway???

So I know we are in Afghanistan to avoid another 9/11 and I believe we should stay there only out of necessity to police the resurging Taliban because quite frankly Nation Building is not realistic.

The Afghan people are like the NYC homeless, you can hide them away, you can give them treatment, you can kill their squeegee business but you are not going to be able to get rid of the situation in it’s entirety. These are people who have been beaten down for so many years they don’t trust anybody, take an Afghan guy in his thirties and he has probably never lived in a time where he wasn't fighting Soviets, bowing to the Taliban, getting controled byAl Quada or having their lives run by warlords. The Mujahideen has fought so many battles that their scars are scarred and by now they have lost all sense of normal.

They may as well be the homeless guy sitting in a puddle of his own urine on the subway

Just look at these faces as the people who protested yesterday.

Mind you that they were protesting to defend their right to rape their wives. The same wives they force illiteracy upon and refuse to let walk around without being covered head-to-toe.

If this was happening in ‘civilized society’ sociologists would say that there was an epidemic of antisocial behavior but in Afghanistan it’s Wednesday.

But then again in our ‘free’ society people are getting gunned down in schools, immigration centers and old person’s hospitals by gun-wielding psychopaths who feel bad for being outcast cause they don’t speak proper English or are afraid Obama is going to take away their guns.

I'll have some cream and sugar with my Tea Party

So the Conservative Movement is having Tea Parites all across the land to mark tax day and what they say as some kind of taxation without representation.  In the future they should consider having these things around election time when they might be able to get 'representation' elected as opposed to doing it now and just causing a lot of traffic jams across the countries.. but then again who listens to logic?

The one question I had is where were these Tea Parties when Junior Bush was spending money like a drunken sailor?  

My opinion about taxes is pretty easy.  I don't like to pay them but understand the government needs it as revenue.  If there is a better system out there (FairTax maybe?) I'm all ears but the concept of cutting taxes when you are raging two wars is about as smart as going to Iraq without an exit strategy.  

What I am not a fan of by the way is NY States Tony Soprano like back-room dealings up in Albany and the new tax increase on the wealthy.  I see NY State as completely disfunctional and if they have proven anything it is that they are all a bunch of crooks.   There has to be some kind of pay-as-you-go thing up in Albany because they keep getting more money and I keep getting less subway trains.


Here is a Relief Bitch from an old Favorite

Bump Bein is 2-3 with a WHIP of 1.04 but he does strike out a batter an inning.

you know how the gov't is now saying that GM is going to declare bankrupcy in June, after taking billions in bailout money. I think it's like going to the city and circling for a spot for like 30 min and then parking in a pay lot. I mean you could have payed to park a half hour ago, and enjoyed more of your evening.

I hate EVITE and everything it stands for..

It should be called E-Spy! ! No not those terrible sports awards they give out in the middle of the summer but instead like a mini E-KGB. See when you log onto EVITE you are immediately flagged for having been there regardless if you responded. It's like fingerprint that you were snooping around and for somebody who loves to snoop this is a death wish.

So you are forced immediately to make a decision of whether you will go or not and then be asked to come up with some witty remark.   So as soon as I get an email saying that I have an Evite, I just cross my fingers and pray it's an UNVITE.

See the fingerprint is only visible to the person who set up the Evite in the first place and it is invasive.
If I wanted this kind of oversight I would have moved to Stalin's Russia

I’m sure that the crap that Facebook throws out there has its flaws, the biggest being that you have to log onto god-damn Facebook

If you want me to come to your shitty party send me a card in the mail.

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the last time three shots hit this hard it was those Jagermeister shots on Thursday Night

You have to pretty impressed with the Navy SEALS and those three snipers taking out the three guys 150 feet away on a bopping boat. The last time I was on a boat, I think I puked from the second I got on until 30 minutes after I got off, to think you can concentrate a sharp-shoot 3 Somalians is pretty impressive.


Not sure how this will affect the next hostage negotiation but something tells me that the next US Captain caught up in one of these Somalian pirate situation won't be afforded the time the last guy was.. But again we'll see.

I'm sure these guys will claim that the US esculated the violence since these pirates never take the hostages out but then again they did have a gun pointed at his head.


by the way when exactly did pirating go from something that kids did with music to something Somalians did with captains?

Somalian Pirates

There is something that isn't clear to me about these pirates.. How the hell are five fishermen in a row boat able to take over some of these huge tankers? At what point do the shipping companies hire a bunch of the same bouncers that patrol the front steps of NYC's shittiest clubs.

Have a couple of these 6'6" 300lb dudes hang out checking ID's on the hulls of these boats and let see how much trouble these row boat pirates are then.

Add a couple of these pit-bulls on the boat and whenever you see a canoe of Somalians approaching start blasting house music from speakers set up on the deck boat and line up a velvet rope around the perimeter.

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The two day hangover

You know you had a big night when the next morning a large black coffee can't get you through the day. Nothing works as you fight the fog built up in the head and the entire feeling is as if your body has been drained of all its energy by those lightning bolts the Emperor shoots

Then there are the days when even the Emperor's bolts seem like child's play.. When the force is so strong that it first wipes you out and then meticulously eats away any piece of hidden energy you have stored away. After a normal night of drinking you can usually rally the next day and at least save face but after an epic night there is no rally anymore it is just a slow death.

The normal cures (grease and water) are no match and even the seemingly fair-proof "start drinking again" can't overcome it. This is the hangover which is so debilitating that it puts you out of commission for two days. When you wake up two days later and still feeling like Hacksaw Jim took a 2x4 to the inside of my head you, you know you are fucked but you also know you had a big night..

Then you vow to never have one like that again.
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Jim Nantzy

There probably isn't a better gig out there than the various events that Jim Nantz  gets to cover for CBS. This guy will have seasons where he'll do the Superbowl in February, the NCAA tournament in March and the Masters in April. Bob Costas used to be the predominant sportscaster in the US but Nantz just seems to fit that role right now. The funny thing is that I think he is god-awful at a lot of what he does, so because you guys care, I decided to rank Jim Nantz's various events


the Masters. This is his best event by far, I think for golf he is fantastic. He has a really gets a good feel for it, has a perfect voice and intonations for the flow of the game. A Master's Sunday without Nantz would not feel right

NCAA tournament. He's pretty awful here and it doesn't help that Clark Kellogg is as dull at a rock but the fact that Nantz gets top billing is unbelievable to me. In my mind there is absolutely no reason why the NCAA doesn't put Gus Johnson on every play-by-play NCAA tournament game he can physically get to.

NFL.. he is completely brutal .

You wrap this entire thing together with the fact that he's got the hots for Barbara Bush and defends her idiot son and you get a horrid human being



so I read on CNN.com that the Pet Shop boys have been asked by PETA to change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys.. PETA should stick with pouring blood on people not interfering with terrible pop music.

there is no We in team

when you are watching your favorite team on TV you have to realize something: You are not part of the team, you are not getting paid to play and whether you watch or do not watch has zero influence on how the team plays.

I don't care if you show up with an authentic Robinson Cano jersey, you have season tickets or if Michael Kay is your uncle.  Get it through your thick head you are not on the squad since they don't pay you to play and you don't have any influece on the wins and losses of the team

The only time 'we' is at least somewhat acceptable

1) if you are a member of the team

2) if you own the team

Other than these two reasons you should use "the Yankees", "the team i route for" or "they"!!!

I'll take it a step further.. if you are the 25th man on an American League baseball team or the last guy on the basketball squad your use of 'we' should be limited.

I might conceded that the use of 'We;' when you are talking about the Olympics is OK in some situations but I am not even sure about that..

And I'm sick of people telling me that they use 'we' because they claim they are die-hards and have posters on the walls, tattoos on their arms, and jersey's on their backs.

You can be a huge Tiger Woods fan but you would never say "we won the Masters", why???? BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT TIGER WOODS

You could be a big fan of the Slumdog Millionaire and it wins for best picture you don't stand up and say "we won an oscar" .. you know why you wouldn't? cause you had nothing to do with the movie (unless maybe you are Indian)

And don't give me this bull about paying big money to see your team play.. you pay big money to watch an individual sport, a movie or a play on Broadway but that doesn't make you part of the production (unless I guess you are dating the chick from The Little Mermaid)

stop throwing your trash on my streets!!!!

This blog post is a bit inspired by the blog my buddy Otis put up a few days ago but it's something that has been bugging me for a long time.


Why do people who typically don't live in Manhattan treat Manhattan like a giant frigging garbage dump. A few years ago while I was living in Hell's Kitchen and on my way home some jackass with opens up his car-door as he sat idling in front of my apartment building.  A hand comes out of the care and he throws a bag of McDonalds crap right onto my sidewalk.

In a moment of clarity/stupidity I walk up to the guy

Rigehtti : Hey man, what the hell why are you littering?


Big Italian dude: excuse me?


Righetti: you just threw McDonalds crap on the street for no reason, there is a garbage can 15 feet away.


Big Italian dude: Get the fuck out of my face


RIghetti: I will, as soon as you clean up the garbage you just threw on my stoop


Big Italian dude: go fuck yourself


Righetti: I don't come to your shitty town in Rutherford, Staten Island or Belerose or whereever you live and throw shit on your sidewalk


Big Italian Dude: Get out of my face you piece of shit..

Big Italian Dude flip me the bird and drives off.

I don't understand why people feel like littering is OK in any case but why especially in a big city they feel they have the right to throw shit all over the street as if this city is their own garbage dump.

first of all, get out of my city with your gas guzzler you ungrateful bastard. I hope they bring back that back the transit tax for people who live outside NYC but work in the city and then add that Bloomberg congestion pricing fee for driving cars in the middle of the city. Honestly every ahole from NJ, Long Island, Westchester who uses this city should be forced to pay a payroll tax and then bring any ahole (from NYC or outside) to central booking when they are caught littering.

I'm afraid of the dark.

not really but I'm definitely afraid of some rogue country pointing a nuke right at my ass even if every time the North Korean's shoot a rocket it seems a lot more like a Righetti after a few too many whiskey's and not a Righetti on a full bottle of passion-fruit Snapple.


In the meantime, is it just me or do you get the feeling the Obama administration sees the Automotive and Banking business in two different ways. I know that we're told that we can't afford to let the banks fail while that isn't exactly the same as the automotive industry which should not fail. There is a very small nuanced difference here but it's pretty important.

Is this because they truly don't think the banking industry can fail or because they just don’t understand it?  The banking industry has been hiring mathematicians to run these complex derivatives while the manufacturing plant has been hiring frat boys to run the show.  It's funny if you speak with people since everybody has some kind of opinion of how GM can get fixed but nobody has any idea how AIG should get fixed.

This is where I think the administration is with this right now, they are getting talked in circles by two groups of people and they have decided that although they will not get embarrassed by the blue-color folk they are afraid of the white-color folk cause they don't really believe they can fix the problem.

The AIG thing is so embarrasing because as Jon Stewart has already said, we are giving the banks money to cover their crappy loans and then we are giving AIG money to insure those same crappy loans.. in other words we are insuring the same crappy loans twice.
Not letting AIG fail has come down to one thing.  Obviously all the insurance they have been offering is nothing more than pie-in-the sky, they weren't insuring anything and the 120 billion they've been given was just a way to Ponzi Scheme the money to the Goldman Sacks folk under the table.

As American as Apple Pie P*ssy

Here is my complaint about the New Yankee Stadium and the new Citi Field.

First of all, the prices are astronomical which take the opportunity for most kids to see a game right out of the park. Secondly I'm never thrilled when a city has to be on the hook for the cost of one of these parks, especially not in a recession but most importantly what bothers me is that I'm reading the Daily News special section about the stadiums and they all rave about the great food you can get. Steaks, Sushi, gourmet sandwiches from restaurants as eclectic as the NYY steak at Yankee Stadium to the Daruma of Toyko play at Citi .


WTF are you talking about people. Baseball is not a sushi eating game, it's a game for a $4.50 hot-dog a bag of $5 peanuts and a $8 Miller Lites. This is America and in America we should eat American food at American sporting events and pay American prices as we watch teams of a mix of American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Japanese and Korean players.

first time I hear some chick order a Cosmopolitan at Yankee Stadium, is the day I take a dump in her unAmerican drink.

Economic downturn my ass

Saturday Night in Brooklyn and there isn't a decent restaurant without at least a 45 minute wait.  We are told by everyone that Americans have put themselves on a financial diet but apparently not in Park Slope!!!  It's unbelievable to think that you can't get a pizza, piece of sushi or Steak without feeling like i'm waiting on the kind of line you usually get at TGI Fridays.   


Maybe everybody forgot it was 2009 and thought it was 1999 for just long enough to not allow me to get a table, it is really embarrassing to see these people spend money like they're on an AIG bender, then again i'm the guy who is dying to try those BK Bites, if they ever made the Little Big Mac's I'd buy stock in McDonalds knowing  how much business I'd bring in myself


What is more miserable that "I wish this game went into overtime" Buffalo Wild Wings commercial or the food at Buffalo Wild Wings?   


There is also not a less athletic big-time college athlete than Tyler Hansbrough,.  This dude is built like a bit-time athlete like i'm built like a porn star. it's hard to tell what's more miserable his personality or his athleticism


then again the rest of the UNC white basketball players look like outcasts from the Jonas Brothers

WTF

So in the last three months or so there have been 4 separate mass shootings which is scary because they all have the same kind of feel to it.  Some guy (always a dude usually white or Asian) who is some kind of unmarried loner decides one day to get back at anybody who has ever wished him harm and proceeds to walk into some kind of public setting in the middle of the day fully armed and goes Rambo.
I'm not exactly sure what prompts all of this but honestly this is one of these things that somehow only seems to get worse as the economy takes a down turn.  

What actually annoys me the most about these situations is that the coward always takes himself out at the end.   See I'm a psychologist at heart and need to know what gets into people's heads to do this, why would they barricade in a school teaching immigrants to speak English and then go on a rampage taking out everybody in your path and then taking yourself along with it.  There is almost never a clear motive, very often the victims are selected at random and almost always it happens at a place where the gunman has some vague history which always seems to have had only a minimal influence in him.

First of all the murder is almost never of the people who may have provoked the guy but instead some delusions come over a guy that this is the way to get back at the world for all that's its wrongs like the psychopaths walks into who shot up the nursing home, the kid in VA Tech or this one in Binghamton.

I'm of the mentality that if you don't want to live you should go find yourself a tree and a rope somewhere in the woods and take yourself down, I don't even advocate jumping out of a building as there could be people walking underneath you.

Play that funky music White Girl

Standing on the subway today it really bugged me that people have very little respect for the sanctity of the commute. Not only do people ot let others off the train before getting on themselves but in general people intrude my few moments of quiet I have in my life.


Why do some people not have the ability to use some kind of inside voice when on the train especially on a 7:45Am train. I don't care about how "my man Jermain not taking care of my kids" or about "Stacey's new outfit which is soooo 1996".   Leave the chit-chat to your personal life; keep it out of my commute.

This is almost as irritating as feeling I’m at a No Doubt concert when I have to hear some white-chick blast her shit music from her shitty IPOD's through her shitty earphones at volume level 10. The most embarrassing thing about this is that these people are rocking out to the worst crap; it's not uncommon to hear some idiot blasting Chumbawamba, Coldplay or Nickelback

At what point will they invent a way to just input the speakers directly into the subway rider’s head?

I'd hate to be stuck in a burning building with the subway crowd. you'd have some a bunch of rude-ass fat chick shoving all the thermos dipping hipsters out of their way while half the people couldn’t even hear the commotion cause they are blasting 'hit me baby one more time' at 10000 decibels.

what is up with all the awful tatoos?

I got a couple of rules that I think make sense

- a straight dude should never have a tattoo in the small of his back unless he's planning on using it as part of his road-map for directions to his five hole.

- a tattoo can't be worse looking than the human wearing it. I have seen so many people (male and female) who have the obviously gone shopping at the $0.99 store for tattoos and have come back with the the kind of body art which looks like a piccasso. If your tattoo artist has the artistic ability of a Righetti you probably don't want him stabbing you with needles.

I see so many dudes and chicks with terrible tattoos and wonder every day what the hell came over them at the point of getting this permanently imbedded into their skin. What i'm seeing more and more of is tattoos that come up on people's necks and shaved head. Now this looks idiotic if you are lets say Stephon Marbury but then again you wear a tank-top jersey for your career so who gives a F but the guy that decides to get 'maria' on his neck or some dragon on his head and then hopes to ever get a normal paying job is completely out of his tits in my opinion.

The gym locker-room is where you see the worst ones, dudes have tatoos all over their heinous looking bodies and I'm left to wonder why nobody slapped some sense into them.

It's almost become a game now, who can get the most idiotic looking tattoo out there. Grand Prize is hopefully a lifetime of shame

I hate my Black Suit

I bought a black suit last summer for the wedding of my BFF and although the suit treated me well (including an unfortunate Bon Jovi under-shirt rendition) it has hung in my closet since that day. Well to say it's hung there isn't exactly accurate as it's seen exactly two days of sunlight and neither for good or Bon Jovi reasons.
See there are only two reasons in the world to wear a black suit, a formal (non black-tie wedding) and a funeral and sadly I don't have enough of the former and way too many of the latter recently.

See black suits look good on pasty white guys because most other colored suits make me look terminally ill. A tan suit on an untannned Dutch guy looks like the untanned Dutch guy's impersonating the Emperor in his new clothes, brown suits work too but that would involved brown shoes which always make my feet look like I am skiing.

But I don't have enough of the good reasons to wear my black suit and way too many bad ones and I starting to resent the suit for it!!

RIP Uncle Johnny
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The list of the world's biggest scams go something like this.

The muti-vitamin-

Why a perfectly healthy 33 year old needs 550% of the recommended daily intake of magnesium is beyond ridiculous. This is why my piss is fluorescent yellow whenever I pop a Centrum.



The blind blind-date.
There is no way to blow this chick off after the first date goes shitty as it would only invite accusations of unwarranted heartlessness.



The slow-play all you can eat restaurant.

There is nothing that scream communistic fascist like the slow-play all you can eat restaurant which stalls you with cheap rice and beans while you watch the hour tick away on the clock. You go into this prepared to gorge yourself forsaking taste and quality but when they don't allow you the American indulgence of gluttony I demand a recount!!!

Everybody knows that it takes the stomach about 30 minutes to realize its full, thus the stalling will ensure you don't overstuff yourself (good) while making sure you do not take full advantage of the all-you-can-eat portion (bad).

The NewYears Eve all you can drink bars have perfected this by basically throwing a bunch of mentally handicap people behind the bar to take orders. My suggestion, they should be forced to employ a 24 second clock

there is a reason there is no food-car in the subway

I'm as addicted to caffeine as anybody you'd ever met, I drink 5 cups of coffee per day from the high-end coffee shop to the pot that's been sitting at a gas-station for 5 hours and is more oil-gunk than liquid. I don’t care what it tastes like and I don’t add anything in to it to dull the taste.


But I can't stand when some person (inevitably some prissy white chick) gets onto the subway with their large coffee in one of those ridiculous thermos things. This is the kind of pomposity I do not want to deal with; these are the same stick-up-the ass chicks who give you an attitude if you accidently put your hand on their ass and squeeze. They need their private space to put on their makeup and drink their large $4 coffee in their stainless steel thermos.

Give me a break; what exactly are you trying to prove?

that a subway ride won’t cramp your caffeine style?

That by drinking your high-end coffee you can convince yourself that you are not travelling like a sardine in a rat-infested subway line?

That you can afford the $20 thermos?

That the coffee at the office isn’t' good enough for you?

squeeze onto the subway with your head buried in a newspaper like the rest of the free world and stop trying to make the subway your breakfast bar.

I'm sorry Mr. Vegan guy

I go running this morning like I do most weekend days, just under 5 miles up and through Prospect Park at a pretty decent clip. But today was a bit different than usual, first of all the nasty weather made the track pretty slippery and obviously meant having a lot of gunk kicked up onto your legs, shirt and face. I like running in weather like this as it keeps your on your toes and also separates the men from the boys as many people will use any excuse to not brave this weather.

But as I had gotten up about 30 minutes later than I would have ideally and because I had to run a number of errands before the in-laws showed up, I decided to combine it all together. I first run, then stop by Party City to pick up some birthday balloons and other party stuff and walk down the street to pick up a couple of vegan raw-food dishes for one of the party goers.

Problem is that after I run 5 miles, I always feel so famished that I need to replenish by stuffing as much food in my face in as little time as possible. I knew that with all the errands, I wouldn't have time for a real breakfast so decided to stop at the hot-dog vendor on the corner. This guy is set up perfectly, he's offers exactly three items: hot-dogs, beef sausages and pretels, all for about $2.50 and less. I scarf down not one but two beef sausages with ketchup, mustard, relish and slaw and make it on my way down the street to the vegan place.

Well it was a cold day, and I was pretty soaked after my run but make it inside the V-Spot pretty quickly. I go to pay and as I reach into my pocked to pay him when a huge sneeze comes over me.

HAAAAAAAAAACHOOOOOO ,

there I shot chunks of beef sausage all over the vegan guy's shirt and topped it off by handing him a pile of sweat covered bills and then wiping my dirt covered shirt up against his counter.

sorry dude

Take on HealthCare

I've been thinking a lot about health-care and how it seems to be crippling our country.   I've heard a million answers and reasons (none of them any good or very convincing) why health-care is broke or why it's working right, why it needs just some tweaking or must be totally overhauled, why it must be nationalized or left alone etc.   

I’ll begin this entire thing with the following disclaimer..  Healthcare is one of those things I know very little about, it's the one item that as soon as a columnist takes it on is as soon as I zone out.   I’m not sure why I can’t get into it but it’s just not something I have the stomach for I guess. And I'm sure I’m going to get shot down by the left, right and middle for this blog item.  I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks and  it's apparent to me that we need to do something about it and I can't get the thought out of my mind that the way most people get their healthcare (through their employer) is a gigantic mistake for many reasons.

But my biggest issue is that we are misguided if we think that you can ask a company who by design should be based on generating revenue and maintaining margin should carry  the weight of health-care and continue to compete in a global market.

As a philosophical model , Health Care is not a burden employers should have to carry, it is crippling our employers and hurting our employees; health-care for individuals is not the responsibility of the employer in my eyes this goes against the principle of capitalism.  We have to let business be business not an entitlement center.   If you go back to the basics,  principle of business is to produce and sell widgets, generate revenue and maintain margin.   Business should be run to make money, do well for its shareholders, build product they are not in the health-care industry (unless your business happens to be called Blue Cross Blue Shield or Aetna or something).  In the 50's when there was a push to change health-care and take the cost and decision out of the hands of business but it got derailed by big business (GM and  Ford) when they decided that because they were doing so well they wanted to use health-care as part of their compensation package to attract better workers.   Ironically one of the reasons that Detroit is bankrupt (or should be allowed to go bankrupt) today is because of the immense costs of health-care for their present and past employees.   Recruitment of employees should be strictly in the form of cash, stocks, hours, vacation time etc. health-care and insurance should never get confused in this issue.

But past the inherent conflict of a capitalistic business model, this entitlement has become a forced expense since companies cannot properly recruit in these markets without offering health-care, in 2009 health care is a staple of any 'good' job.

There is a second  issue which is arguably more important, it is unfair for an employee to be forced into a plan that the owner's, CEO's or Board's of their companies decide to go with.  The health and well being of people is too important to have it be a line-item in a corporate budget which can be slashed or cut-up in back-rooms or board-rooms. The cost of health-care has forced companies to jump from insurance to insurance with obvious effects on long-term continuity which can obviously lead to inadequate care.  A typical employee in the US is forced to scramble to find new doctors and hospitals within the health-care’s network every few years as their companies make decisions to switch health-care providers.   Just like people will make the argument that congresspeople should not be making these decisions for individuals , the should also not be made by suits with red-ink pens as they try to compete worldwide against other companies who do not have these burdens..

Health-care should not be a business issue or government issue , it should be an individual issue, one decided by people and not something funded (directly) by companies.  I think Health Care is something that should be responsibility mainly of the individual with a safety net of the state but the concept that a business pays for the cost of insuring a nation is ludicrous.

a man and his can

So having been without a bathroom for the about a week as they gut-renovated it has been a bit of a pain in the ass. But I got home yesterday and after writing out a check big enough to make an AIG executive cry got my first chance to use the new equipment.

There is nothing more pleasant than a man sitting on his own throne in the comfort of his own home, doing what a man does best...stink up the joint.

Well the new setup did NOT disappoint, the sleek design, the environmentally conscious low water flush and the wide face was enough to bring tears to my eyes (and hopefully not dribbles to the new floor). honestly if the bathroom was any bigger I would have installed a urinal but being it's a NYC tenment the only way to install a urinal would be if we installed it right in the sink.

But all-in-all I am a happy man, although a buddy of mine suggested we get some good reading material in there as a nice finishing touch.

This is an absolute NO-GO in my mind and you will find no reading materials in the can at the Righetti estate. I don't want anybody hanging out in there for any longer than they have to, and really don't want anybody touching any of my fine-reading materials while they have their ass planted on my porcelain.

I'm putting a rule down now. There is no time when a man should pick up another man's reading material if said man's ass is planted on the second man's bowl.

the New York syncronized dance

What amazes me about New York City is considering how busy it is and how busy the people are that most of the time people on the street move like a well oiled machine in perfect motion with nobody ever bumping into anybody else. For a city which gets this rap of rudeness, i personally think the fact that people do anything in their power to not touch other people is pretty remarkable. People dart across streets, over sidewalks, up and down subway stairs and there is almost never a collission as it almost appears to be a syncronized dance.  The sidewalk is the most impressive sight, especially at about 8:30AM when people are fresh and aware, it's the antithesis of bumper-cars.   What thisalways reminds me of is that VISA commercial where all those people are moving in perfect syncronization until the one guy wants to pay with cash and before you know it two chicks are spilling coffee on each-other, some dog gets its tail stepped on and some dude bumps into another guys ass with his crotch and both have one of those weird looks on their faces.


Well this is what happens in NYC all the time when some hot chicks walks down in a mini-skirts and hell breaks loose. Before you know it Bike Messengers are running into pot-holes, chicks are getting their heels stuck in the sidewalk and dudes are walking face-first into telephone lamps.

The only thing worse than this is when some camera toting tourist decides to venture onto the busy sidewalk and then the entire machine breaks.  It's not that I hate tourist or tourism but I hate when people get in front of me and slow me down, I feel like we need a handicap lane for people with a Missouri, Hawaii or Oregon driver's license.

I'm on a Subway to Hell

So let me get this straight. The NYC MTA is going to raise our fares and also cut our service, man what a deal!!!


I get that we are in an economic Tsunami and I know we all will have to share the burden but somehow the NYC mass transit which is probably the most used. Public transit system in the world (I have nothing to back up that claim by the way) offers none of the perks, lavishes or reliability of other methods of mass transit.

Why in hell Sheldon 'the criminal' Silver and his Albany buddies have refused to properly fund the MTA is beyond me. I thought Bloomberg’s congestion pricing was a great idea until a couple of well connected dudes in Queens and Staten Island put some pressure on Albany and that fell through the cracks including billions of dollars in Federal funding.

Well, I filled out one of those Subway Report Cards last month and they asked me to rank my top 5 or 10 complaints from a list which included

Unreliable

Dirty platforms

Dirty subways

Hard to hear announcement on platform

Hard to hear announcement in subway

Delays /Trains no being on time

Track work delays and rerouting

Weekend and Nighttime Schedule interruptions

Rats

Etc etc

I have never looked at a list and felt that the option 'all of the above' was the only proper one


Now if that list had included undesirables, fat chicks who get on the subway without letting others off first and people whose fat asses take up 2 seats and you would have had a clean sweep.

Get a name and stick with it.

I hate when people rename well known things or places for no good reason. I hate how they cloak it in patriotism or national pride when it has nothing to do with it especially if the ‘honor’ they are trying to give a dead guy actually just winds up becoming a name that people will curse.


Why rename the triborough RFK Bridge? Is there any honor in having a crossway with $5 tolls and crawling traffic named after you? Plus it cost $4 million dollars to replace all the signs

Adding 'Liberty' to a place as miserable as Newark Airport does nothing to spread the love of Democracy. There isn’t a more miserable place on earth than Newark Airport and the last thing I think about is Liberty as I get strip-searched to make sure that my tube of toothpaste isn’t over 10 ounces.

What honor did a great man like Jackie Robinson get by getting some 5 mile stretch of garbage-covered Interboro Highway get? Some kids will associate a great man only with traffic because local TV and Radio reporting from a helicopter will just say things like “the Jackie Robinson is backed up for 4 miles”

The next thing they are going to do is change the name of the Holland tunnel to the Freedom Tunnel when the entire experience feels claustrophobic or they will rename the Big-Dig the Henry Paulson experience.

I did appreciate that California voted on changing a garbage dump to the George W. Bush Garbage Dump or something.

When it rains, it pours

So I read all weekend about how the market's were going to shit a brick after details of Geitners plan were leaked.   I can honestly say that I had no idea what the market was going to do, so this is not a 'I told you so' moment but instead a 'whoa what the hell was that' moment. 

It seems like his message is working as the market is holding steady at about +275 since 9:30AM this morning.

I do have one thing to say which isn't a novel concept by any stretch but it might be time to tune out the 24 hour news-cycle, between Keith Olberman, Sean Hannity, that chick with the shitty haircut after Olberman, Lou Dobbs. I keep hoping for a Hardball meltdown when Chris Matthews goes Falling Down and takes out the entire crew over at CNBC. The amount of airtime that these guys have to cover is incredible and it can't be surprising that they are nonsensical most of the time.

The last president who got this much air-time was Reagan and that was when he was an actor. I for one wasn't crazy about Obama going on Leno, not because I don't think the forum is correct or that he isn't taking this crisis seriously enough. I am not one of these people who thinks that Obama must work on the economic crisis 24 hours per day and should not even fill out an NCAA bracket but what bothered me is that it just doesn't feel Presidential. In the same way I wasn't a big fan of Bush going on Deal or No Deal or whatever, it just felt a bit weird to me. I guess I would have preferred him to go on Meet the Press or Face the Nation and answer all questions.


by the way here is another example of a self-serving letter to the Metropolitan Diary:

Dear Diary:



This happened on the day I brought my kitten, now an elderly cat, home to my apartment in Chelsea from the A.S.P.C.A. shelter on East 92nd Street.



They gave me a cardboard travel crate to carry her, and I took her on the 6 train downtown. Almost as soon as the train started moving, she began to cry and wail. I was self-conscious then, but when a huge and rather intimidating man — dressed like a biker, with chains and a neck tattoo — sat down across from me and began to stare, I couldn’t wait for the ride to end.


Then he spoke — “My kitty does the same thing” — and gave a sympathetic nod and grin.

Lara Bergen

Thanks Lara for giving us the details how you adopted the cat from the shelter, it wasn't specifically relevant to the story other than to give yourself some glory for your humane kindness.  I for one was hoping the story ended with the cat running onto the platform and fighthing a huge Manhattan subway rat.
I hate people, I really do.

the V-Neck

Am I the only one who noticed that when you buy a undershirt they always show a white dude on the packaging of a crew-neck or v-neck undershirt but always a black dude on the packaging of a tanktop undershir?.  

Then again, I'm about to start a 15k New York Road Runners race in Central Park, which is about the largest collection of white-people this side of a Hanes crew-neck convention.  And the only thing whiter than a crew-neck convention would be a GOP convention.  Except in the running case all the white-people are in that 25 to 45 age range and all love recycling, Obama and running.  

But back to the undershirt thing, when putting on a work-shirt any man will have to choice his poison, the tank-top, the crew-neck, the v-neck or no undershirt at all.
It is obvious that my options are limited since Hanes had made it abundantly clear that the tank-top is not suited for me or my fair-skinner brothers.  Since we are told not to see color, maybe the only way to tell if the dude is black, white or other is what kind of Hanes undershirts he is sporting.


Now I have some buddies who just will go sans undershirt all together but anybody who knows how sweaty I am will realize that this is not an option for me.  
This leave me with two option one of which is completely unacceptable:the crew-shirt neck underneath the dress shirt.  There isn't a worse look that seeing yourself dressed for an occassion with a nicely pressed button-down and a white ring around your neck, like you are wearing a cotton turtle neck.   If you are going to go the crew-neck route you may as well put on a purple undershirt with a dinosaur on it cause you are going to look like a dipshit either way.

So since I’ve decided that the crew-neck under the dress-shirt is the official look for a white-guy who’s given up, I'm not black enough for the tank-top and since I cannot go sans-shirt like some of my European friends I wear the v-neck.

The V-neck offers a great look, it wears comfortably and picks up like 99% of the sweat, it's almost 100% perfect except  when you have a bear-rug on your chest you can almost get strangled by your own chest hair.

Righetti Just wants to have an icepick jabbed into his...

Somehow I got swindled into the worst 2 hours of my life when my TV got stuck on ABC Family and some terrible movie called 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' came on.     This was basically 2 hours of some of the most un-attractive female actresses of our time dressed in some really bad 80's clothes with a stolen Flashdance storyline which I can only imagine was a straight to BetaMax release.

It was obviously miserable but here is the full review:

The storyline is basically about some high-school chick who looks like she's 45, who gets moved across the country by her strict father and finds herself in the town where her favorite dance show is being taped.
I was only half paying attention but apparently she goes to some kind of Catholic School and befriends the chick who was married to Paul Reiser in that terrible NBC show.   
As if this doesn’t sound terrible enough, she meets some guy who looks like a taller Marky Mark without the huge crank.  Of course neither her father or the nuns at the Catholic School are happy about this situation and when the bad boy punches out some guy at the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance who looked like Biff and the the two new love-birds bust out on his motorcycle.  This is when you would expect to find the chick with the horse face and Dirk Diggler getting wasted and screwing in the parking lot but instead they try out for some terrible dance competition, which makes you wish for a Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze reunion.

What is most impressive about this movie is how they tried to convince the audience that Sarica Jessica Parker and Helen's Hunt could possible by high-school girls, I have no idea how old these two chicks were in 1985 but they already looked like martini drinking cougars.  The Marky Mark dude is in desperate need for a Funky Bunch and the fact that SJP’s dad looks like Mike Dunleavy is very distracting.

DMV

So I decided to take a vacation day to take care of some pressing issues including getting some keys made, renewing my license and watching the tournament. Well the DMV experience has not improved much since I was last here about 10 years ago.

The collection of people at the DMV is a sorry cross-section of NYC with a combination of businessmen, illegals, housewives and guys with long arrest records, as they crawl through the serving numbers I cannot avoid feeling like that scene in Beetlejuice.

The numbers pass slowly as I pass the time staring at the way people come dressed. It is like they don't realize that people will actually be seeing them today.. Some chick is rocking leg warmers over jeans to clash with her Sally Jessie glasses another dude is wearing skin tight jeans, a lime green shirt and one of those Hassidic hats.
People have just given up but I guess if you have what better place to be then at the DMV.

Everybody is miserable in here, the customers, the customer service reps, even some guide-dog I just saw walk past looks sad

Then the most important realization of the day dawned on me...
Why would somebody with a guide dog be at the DMV?

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if you think we live in a scary time now, just look at what we use to have to deal with

The above picture has nothing to do with today’s blog but really it was a pretty good find on the innerwebs by an avid TOR reader Zeke the Creep who said

“Yep, that's a disguised Vlad Putin in his carefree KGB days, ready to pop the Gipper if necessary with what is surely a camera gun of some kind.”

Although sadly my first thought was that this was one of those pictures where the guy's got a boner standing behind some little kid, I have a hard time distinguishing a Megan’s Law guy from a KGB agent apparently.

Another off-again, on-again TOR reader Zingrod Zong commented that he ‘loved Rocky IV’.

But since we have politics on the brain, we decided to talk about another item today. The mess that is AIG becomes another Dog-and-Pony show by our wonderful congressmen. This is all posturing and doesn’t ever accomplish anything like when one of these idiots pulled all the heads of the major banks how many of them worked for companies that owned their own private jets.. This is the dumbest question I’ve ever heard because what does it accomplish? That CitiCorp has a private plane..wow next you are going to tell me that water is wet, John McCain is nuts or Chris Dodd is old.

Now I agree that there is no reason that anybody working at one of these divisions of AIG which brought the economy to our knees with the risks they took in all these complex instruments of risk-built derivatives and asset swaps to insure our entire financial system which turned out to be worthless. I don’t believe anybody there should receive a bonus for work they did or a bonus to retain them, I think they should be pulled away in handcuffs. But as usual Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and Matthew McConaughey have to get up on stage and do nothing but gesture,

What still gets me about this entire thing is how loosy-goosy they all are with our money but what I thought was interesting was that as this AIG exploded into the public eye the stock shot through the roof (full disclosure the owners of TOR bought 1250 shares at $0.39/share now $1.80/share about 3 weeks later) … if nothing else it proved that things are back to normal with them throwing out big bonuses and having no regard to regulation.

Stink

There is probably nothing more obnoxious than the stink of a sweaty dude, whether he is standing on a subway, online crowded store or at a Coldplay concert the already miserable experience can be made 10 times worse when you are confronted with the unbathed smell of a man.
Well it is particularly unsettling when the noxious odor originates from yourself.
Earlier today kettle met the absence of light when I lifted my arm to reach for a shelf and almost passed out from the smell of kobe beef.

It is not due to a lack of hygiene or that I don't care but my lame excuse stems from the fact that for the last week I've been a vagabond as our home bathroom is being replaced which so far has gone well except when I realized that I forgot to pack deodorant.

So as I contemplated options at the office which were limited to burning the hair off my pits or dousing my body in bleach but eventually settled on buying a bottle of spray-on Right Guard which only somewhat masks the smell offering my friends and family a combination of turpentine and sweat.
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The Irish Bulls

There is no worse holiday than Patty's Day. As if for no other reason than that every 18 year old idiot is walking on the around Manhattan and pisses on the street.


But what is the most frustrating is that it just comes across as a group of bandwagon jumpers. Every Dutch, Italian, Greek, Hispanic or Polish Jackoff has a Guinness throws on a “blow me I’m Irish shirt” and miraculously turns from David Banner into the Incredible O'Jackoff. It reminds me of when I was in High School and one day everybody was a Chicago Bulls fan and told you it was ‘cause they lived in Chicago when they were 6 months old.

It is incredibly frustrating specifically fora guy who loves Irish Bars and goes to them all the time as I now have to not only share the streets but more importantly my bars with a bunch of total bunch of lushes. I feel like they come into my world, puke all over the sidewalk and cause a ruckus at O’Reily’s, O’Sullivans or O’Grady’s and leave the regulars about 8 people deep trying to get a Miller Lite.

Basically a bunch of new drunks ruin the experience for the normal drunks and I don’t like it.

The good news is that I have my blog written from Cinco de Mayo

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Kobe tastes like my ass

First of all, I should give a disclaimer:
I am not into labels or designers as I find no discernible difference between the high-end boutique and the Gap as that unfortunate experience with the shoe-horn jeans confirmed.
Now some will say this is a lack of sophistication while those with a conscience will realize this is just the marketing you are paying for..

I have found something which might be more pompous than a $4000 bag or $150 mens jeans., the Kobe Burger.

For one ground up sirloin at any level has lost all the tenderness which defines the Kobe beef which makes the 25% price increase that much more ridiculous. But if the price gauge isn't enough to get your panties wet than the fact it actually tastes like it's been rotting in a sewage stream might.

In my ranking the Kobe Burger fall somewhere behind such atrocities as the Bison Burger and the Pizza Burger in terms of taste and in terms of value it is almost as obnoxious as getting a Filet Mignon and ordering it well done.

Kobe beef when cooked properly can be great (if you like that calf which hasn't ever run taste) but if you are going to offer it to me in a processed slab I'd honestly rather eat a veggie burger
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Violators

Don't want to steal Bill Mahr's shtick but I got a couple of New Rules

1). A Karaoke bar DJ has to be able to cut a song short... We live in a bad enough world, we should not be forced to suffer any more than we do already. Or they need the ability to have the audience boo the guy off the stage.

2). Chicks who like chicks should be more accepting. Sweetheart, I am on your side, we do compete but I understand your mission, go under the Sea and enjoy the rich flavor of grouper, groper and mackerel but realize that I am not taking anything away from you.

3) Bars should not be allowed to serve Jack Daniels warm.. Jack is painful enough when it's dulled by ice but to serve it boiling hot is worse than water boarding
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The Bus

The bus in NYC gives you an interesting cross-section of the population. You get 'em all.. Poor, Rich, young, old, black, white, Hispanic and Asian. But mostly you find a depressed and depressing people

The bus crawls through the streets which makes you realize that nobody taking it has any urgency to their journey. Taking it today from Park Slope to Bay Ridge it dawned on me how incredibly lazy people are. I counted 5 people who took the bus for four blocks or less. Four blocks is roughly 0.2 miles and these folks who seemed able bodied although they are also mostly full figured. The exact type of people who probably could really benefit from the exercise. The wonder of the bus plays to people's laziness: is too easy and convenient.

But the laziness is only part of my complaint, there is also the fat asses of these people who take two god-dang seats. You paid for one seat, get your extra large ass off of mine!!!

4 blocks on a bus with an ass like a garbage truck, you got to be kidding me.

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I wear my sunglasses during the day

It took me 33 years but I finally relented. I have taken tremendous pride in a few things most notably that I do not accessorize. But today I broke down and got suckered into a pair of wrap-around sunglasses cause some chick scared me half to death when she told me I was a prime example of the kind of schmuck who hangs on the white beach for 15 minutes an picks up an immediate cataract along with my lobster burn.

I usually don't buy into these scare tactics but I have a buddy who once took a dump and in the process pushed so hard he dislodged his retina

Well of course the chick who scared me into buying these things basically bullsh!ted me on safety for 20 minutes and $40 later I'm sporting one of those full wrap around Oakley Knock-Off and I transform from a jerk to a total jerk-off. So I shell out almost $50 for sunglasses that basically look like the kinds that those old-women sport when they get glaucoma. This look tells the world you have exactly zero hope for anything.

Dudes in sunglasses for anything other than true medical reasons is beyond me.
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I don't believe in reading a magazine while working out.

This one is primarily for the ladies and it is pretty simple:
If you can read Vogue while on the elliptical machine than you are not working hard enough. See working out means that you are busting your ass, sweat dripping off your face and your heart rate raised, in other words it's like banging in that they are both things you could NOT do while simultaneously reading your horoscope.

If knowing your future is what you're interested in, let me help you.
In about 45 seconds your sloppy dude is going to make that weird face, you know the one that looks like he is taking a crap, well when he makes that face than you're fucked cause his little winky is going back in it's shell and sadly the fun is done and within 3 minutes he'll be taking a nap and your left wondering why in hell this is your life and that is your dude.

Same thing when working out except in this case if you can read your horoscope while excersizing it should read "in 4 weeks when you get onto the scale and see that it hasn't changed, you will probably think that working out doesn't work for you and drown yourself in a slice of Death By Chocolate"

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What is it about airport food

There have been many comedians who have made a career out of the misery of airplane food but what needs to be discussed is the misery they serve at the airport.

The selection always sucks, the prices are the same they charge at Disney World and because it is such a transient clientele, the service sucks

I just had an Angry Whopper served by an angry Burger King employee. The Angry Whopper comes with Angry Onion Rings, Angry Jalapenos and Angry pepperjack cheese, the angry BK chick came with a Queens accent and a bit of a mustache. It was flat, sloppy and cold and the burger wasn't particularly good either

What a terrible live we have.

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Oggled and Toggled

My buddy asked the question earlier today, 'is Facebook is really just an acceptable method of spying' to which I answered a resounding "yes, hot chicks need to be oggled"


But really you wonder though what brings people to put all sorts of slutty pictures of themselves on Facebook except an inherent need to act on their voyeuristic instincts. You can find so many pictures of hot chicks (and I’m sure tons of hot dudes too) who have posted all sorts of slutty poses all over the place.

Although I believe you have every right to scope through these pictures, I do have a new appreciation for the position hot chicks are in when they get oggled by nasty dudes

I remember about two years ago I decided to hit the NYSC in Chelsea deciding this was a great idea since it was close to the place I was going to have dinner at that night. 
The even starts innocent enough.. I walk in, hit the treadmill for 4 miles, do a couple of weights and maybe 40 sit-ups and get ready to get out of there.

I walk into the locker room to shower and change and realize immediately that all the eyes in the place turn on the fresh meat that just walked in.

I also realize that it is like a fucking sauna in this entire bathroom, I'm sweating buckets. It's like they have left every shower running on extra hot and closed all the doors. The entire place feels like a greenhouse but that doesn't stop dudes are conversing and laughing.   I'm pretty sure I heard a couple of towels snap.

I find a quiet corner, take my sweaty clothes off quickly and walk over to the showers. With every step I take I feel more eyes staring down at me, as if I’m walking through the jungles in Cambodia. I run over and take cover in the shower and thanking the designers of NYSC for not having put in communal showers. I wash up and peer out from behind the curtain for some clearance. When I see a break of light, I bust out but as I hurry back towards my little corner a large buff dude winks at me.

I retreat to my corner, and there I stand broken-hearted, the only thing separating me from jail-house fun is a small white towel which all of a sudden I'm not sure is all that clean. I quickly dress and basically run out of the locker room.

Why you ask would I go to the Chelsea NYSC and not expect to get a little harassed? Because I've done this to tons of women in my life and I deserve no better

Georgie Boy

For the last two or three weeks I've had some pains in my back which have not exactly been debilitating but definitely not exactly comfortable.


I can't really figure out the reason's behind the pains as I haven't doing much differently in my life. My first thought was that it might be caused by this spare tire I'm carrying around and I'd love to blame it on my terrible Red-Rooster haircut but don't think that is the situation.

I have been racking my brain and have finally found the culprit, it's probably not my sneakers, work shoes or weird walk but instead this George Costanza monstrosity I've been planting my ass on every day. I've decided to keep it out of my back pocket for a couple of weeks and already feeling the immediate effects.

In related news, I think I just heard some hard-candy crack

In this economic climate, I can't really be affording to lose an hour

Some random thoughts I had

The Dutch Team beat the Dominican team in the World Baseball Classic which on paper is like Guam taking over China...  Then you find out that the Dutch team is basically comprised of all players from the Dutch Caribbean territories but I'm still impressed that a bunch of dudes from Aruba can beat a team which represents 20% of the entire major leagues.

Saw Slumdog last night.  I know what you are thinking, 'is he the last man on earth to have not seen it?'
Three comments-
when Jamal shoots the dude he is a dead ringer for Bob from LaBamba.
It was really well cast although it would have be
The movie is great but a bit of a rip of from the whole Rosie Perez angle in White Men Can't Jump
If their Regis is such a d!ckhead does that make their Kelly a dog?



One more comment.   I am always told that I can't wear a black shirt with a brown belt, does that mean that my Indian Friends should shave their heads?

Completely random thought about another movie:  in Dumb and Dumber when the dude whose job it is to intercept them on their way to Denver is about to croak, his character's nuance is a dead ringer for the James Gandolfini role in True Romance.
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