TC the Terrible

Quick thoughts on a Friday morning.

• For all you kiddies out there that think you’re too cool with all the crap you post to your MySpace, adults are watching you. Post about shooting your teachers and the police will arrest you.

• Nationals Pound Phillies. Sounds dirty until you remember that it’s two baseball teams.

• If the Post is talking about a teenage trend, you know it’s two weeks from being so last month.

• Sometimes, you have to put your money where your mouth is, no matter how big your mouth is.

• At least the Mexican priests are into girls, not young boys that has to be a good thing. Killing them because the priest knocked them up is still a very bad thing.

• The Chicago Trib makes a good point about fighting the bad guys and not each other. Not that it’s going to happen before November gets here.

• Charles Krauthammer shows some level headedness that is rare for the Post, and I hope that is the first sign that they are tired of beating on the military.

That’s it for now. I’ve got copies to make. Enjoy yourselves.

He’s no Pujols, but it looks like Ryan Church may have slowed down the Nationals’ sophomore slump. The District is not nearly as jazzed this season about the team and we all should have known that was coming. You can only have a first season about once every forty years. The first season in the new stadium will be a big deal, but other than that, it’s time for the Nationals to win some games if they expect to see a packed house.

THE WOMAN and I played a full 18 holes yesterday for the first time this year. I didn’t break 100 (big surprise there) but I did have 13 or 14 really good holes. It took six strokes to get out of the bunker on the first, but for the rest of the front side I was on the green in two on every par 4. I hit the green in three on the only par 5 across the front. The back nine was tougher play with me having two holes that went straight down the crapper. The up side of the day is that my driver is starting to groove in, and despite the fact that I could not hit a cow in the ass with my 3-wood my long irons looked like rockets coming out of the rough. Over all, it was a really good day.

Our buddies over at the Post are always spanking Republicans, so it comes as no shock that they are declaring pink to be the new red. Normally I’d blow off their attempts at making the administration look bad since they keep about a dozen people on staff for that one reason, but today George Will got in on the bashing too. Something has to be wrong with the GOP if G.W. is kicking them in the ass.

“Traducing the Constitution and disgracing conservatism, they used their power for their only remaining purpose — to cling to power.”

That hurts.

Now go do something productive today.

Look guys this is really simple. Barry Bonds is a ‘roids boy and his records are all for shit at this point. Sosa and McGuire were on the juice during that great summer when baseball was saved from the hell that hockey is now enduring. The only real difference is that when Bonds got hauled into a grand jury room he lied his ass off about being a doper.

Baseball needs to ban the cockbreath the same way they did Pete Rose. Rose was no saint but at least he got on base legally. And he did more with his marginal talent than anybody else in the lore of the game. And did they ban him from the game for gambling? No, they banned him for lying about it.

The Internet is now officially a dangerous place. Not only have the sexual perverts turned it into a pedophile playground but now street gangs are roaming there too. According to the Post today MS-13 is on the net bragging about kills and making threats. It’s so bad that MySpace is building a security force to call its own.

The thing about freedom of speech is that it applies to everbody; even illegal immigrants and semi-literate gang bangers. Parents are going to start the irrational knee-jerk screaming to put censors in place on the net to protect their kids from this kind of crap. Hell, why not just do your damn job as a parent and pay some attention to what the eff your kid is doing on line? Or would that interfere with your social calendar?

And finally, thank you George Will for pointing out that unions have helped to create an industrial welfare state. Like it wasn’t obvious to everyone all these years. Yeah it does suck to lose your job, but when a company agrees to pay you to sit on your ass then that’s just wrong. No wonder American car companies are up shit creek. How can any company afford to compete when they are paying people to not work? They should have broken the UAW’s back while Hoffa was in prison. Then maybe we could buy an American car and not worry that it’ll fall apart before it gets paid off.

More later. Trust me on that.