TC the Terrible NOW Saber Squelch

In what is surely Karma leaving its mark on the events of today, a strip club is getting ready to set up shop next to a church in Hyartsville, VA.  The club’s owner tried to be serious when explaining;

“That is first and foremost our primary goal is that we want to offer a restaurant, it just happens that go-go dancers are our form of entertainment.”

One has to wonder if the AFA is going to lend their support to preventing the club’s move, or would the club have to cater to gays to get that kind of attention.

Either way, that’s it for me today.

More tomorrow.

Just to get it out of my system, and to eat a taste or two of humble pie, Mark Brunell has done better than I expected him to this year quarterbacking the Redskins.  To be fair, since Coach Gibbs has decided to put the team on the back of Clinton Portis it is harder to criticize the play of Brunell.  

He’s expected not so much to win as he is to not lose.  A situation that would have suited the soon-to-be-former-Redskin Patrick Ramsey just as well.  Ramsey still has that gun of an arm and the strong legs to make plays for a team that is willing to let him. Gibbs yanking him early in the season has given Ramsey the time he needed to calm down and understand the game.  He should take advantage of this weekend, if he gets the start, and show the other teams (Cardinals, Jets, Chiefs, etc.) his ability to lead a talented team.

More later.

Like I said yesterday, this is a great time to be a Memphis sports fan.  Even the Grizzlies pulled one out of the hat and shut down Kobe last night.  And sure they only won by a point, but it still counts as a win.

In my humble opinion, the Memphis Redbirds are the ones to thank for all of this.  It was them building a state of the art baseball stadium downtown, and putting fans in the seats with great games that got the attention of the sports world.  They put pride back into the city’s sports fans, gave us all a sense that the Tigers could win too if we rooted hard enough.  And their success showed the NBA that Memphis would support a professional team.

Of course the NBA raped the city on the new stadium deal.  In the process setting up an unheard of first-refusal clause that allows the Grizzlies to control every entertainment event that comes to town, and leaves the city with two mostly vacant, mostly worthless arenas; the Mid-South Coliseum and the Memphis Pyramid.  The Grizzlies only guaranteed they would be in town until the first set of bond payments come due.  After that they can leave, and not pay the city enough to cover the light bill on what would be empty arena number three.

Still, the Grizzlies have a winning record and FedEx Forum no longer gets my tax dollars.  It’s all good for me.

More later.

As of this morning I am the only person in our house that does not have the flu.  I’d like to say that’s due to clean living and superior genetics, but somehow I think that might be stretching things.  More likely I’m not sick because I’m too stubborn to give in to something that small and pestersome.  

A couple of things in the morning news that are worth talking about today.  One is how the Post is always behind on current trends in technology.  Today’s story about text messaging (in the A section no less) comes off as sophomoric.  Anyone with a teenager knows more about text messages than the Post’s writer does.  In fact, it seems like the writer went to the Bon Jovi concert and discovered texting for the first time.  SDSM has been known to send or receive over 2000 messages in a single billing cycle.  And for the 160 character that the article says are the maximum allowed, the $29.99 phone that SDSM uses allows her 890 characters.

The other thing that tweaked me was something I got in an e-mail a few days ago that I blew off as a hoax.  The e-mail asked me to sign a petition and boycott one of the new shows on NBC.  The show is called “The Book of Daniel” and deals with an Episcopalian priest and his screwed up family.  The initial plot seems thin and the real hook of the show is the occasional appearance of Jesus in human form talking to the priest.  Now of course this is going to rub some Ultra-Christians, namely the American Family Association, the wrong way.

After cruising around their website for a few minutes and reading the “AFA Action Alerts” section it seems that the real issue for them is ending homosexuality, not the promotion of Christianity.  Which is a real shame.  

Groups like the AFA do more harm than good by spreading a negative image of Christians.  Instead of posing as a Christian values group they need to come out and admit that they are simply trying to snuff out the rights of gays.  After all, Jesus was always up front and honest about what he was trying to do, right? Or does that make too much sense?

Sorry to get off on such a long rant, but I warned you it was coming.  I grew up as a Deep South Southern Baptist who was asked two things each time I went to a service.  The questions were simple, did I know where my soul was going to spend eternity, and had I given my tithe for the week?  I’ve seen the good and bad side of being a conservative Christian, and these people are part of the bad side.

Ok, enough of that.

More later.