Yes it is time once again for another one of these ventures into a bunch of randomness where the collective whole is less than the sum of its parts.........
A question that came up at work today. Okay, not so much a question as it was me thinking out loud. But if they were to make a porn movie about Thor, would his penis be the hammer of God?
This week saw the Pittsburgh Pirates extend record streak of consecutive losing seasons by a professional North American sports franchise to 19. One has to wonder if they get to twenty if everyone on the team gets gold pocket watches or something.
And let's not kid anyone, 20 consecutive losing seasons is almost certain. Sure the team was in first place as late as early July this year, but that had a lot to do with the pitching staff performing far above any realistic expectations prior to the beginning of the season. Since the All Star break they have pitched more like what was expected, towards the bottom half of MLB, couple that with the less than spectacular hitting that has been a constant all season long and 20 seems like a forgone conclusion at this point.
Whereas just the opposite was the case with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who played incredibly poorly in their season opening loss to the Baltimore Ravens. To hear the locals and some national pundits talk about it, they might as well blow up the team and start from scratch. Please, this is a team that made the Super Bowl last year. How often are they realistically going to turn the ball over 7 times in one game? Or play that poorly on both offense and defense. One game is far from enough of a statistical sample to go getting one's knickers in a twist over. Come back to me when they have 20 consecutive losing seasons and then we will talk.
So I am reading a story on AOL this morning before checking the company's email and I am not sure how that much stupidity can be in one sad story. The story was of a woman who gave birth to twins and suffocated them both. A woman, living at home with her parents gets pregnant with twins, hides the pregnancy from her family for 9 months and gives birth in the bathroom (over the toilet no less), proceeds to suffocate both children and then hide the dead babies in her laundry basket. First, no body in the house noticed she had gotten bigger despite being pregnant with twins? What, the change in her size was due to extra helping of pot roast? And how often do they do laundry if she thought a good place to hide the dead babies was her laundry basket? That house has to be like a perverse Twilight Zone or something, where you are about to enter a dimension of stupidity and sickness.
I should make note of something, because I do not know how much longer I will be able to blog here. I may be incarcerated in the very near future. See, I was given a Cuban cigar this week at work and I have every intention of enjoying it this weekend. Because of our fucked up relationship with Cuba, that cigar is technically illegal here. I don't care. Call it my protest over our Cuba policy if you want, I am just going to call it me enjoying a good cigar for a change.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is pitching an idea that Pennsylvania should divvy up its electoral votes in Presidential elections. I know that Democrats hold a registration advantage in the state, but the state has never been a safe state for Democratic Presidential candidates. Of the last 10 Presidential elections, Pennsylvania has voted for the Republican candidate 4 times. Because of the number of votes in the Electoral College, Pennsylvania has been an important place to campaign with a prize of 20 electoral votes. Telling candidates that they are only realistically stumping for one or two additional votes here and the rest will be pretty much divided evenly is basically telling them that there is no real need to campaign here at all. In the last 4 races, the winning candidate got 55%, 51%, 51% and 49% of the votes. How much effort are they really going to put in to get from say 11 to 12 Electors? I am guessing not much.
Okay, looks like the clock is ticking and if I want to try and get this posted before midnight (Multiply willing) I had best call it a night. Be back manana.
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