I don't have time for football. I love NFL football and there was a time when I watched it pretty closely, but Sundays are far too valuable to me now to spend them camped in front of the tube. It's just one of those compromises I have to make in order to have my priorities straight. However, I do try to make a point each year of at least watching the Super Bowl. This year I really wasn't in the mood for a party or a sports bar; I just wanted to sit at home and watch. I also really didn't have a favorite team. So because my friend
Unwelcome Validation
Remember my rant last week? Oh yeah, probably not. None of you commented on it so I assume none of you read it. I was basically bitching about those violent blowing-shit-up fuckers in the Middle East and how there never has been and never will be peace over there because those apes are missing a gene or something.
Anyway, two stories this morning. First, a bunch of Muslims got really angry because a cartoon depicted Mohammed as violent and they disagreed with that, SO THEY TORCHED A CHURCH AND RANSACKED A NEIGHBORHOOD. Way to prove your point, idiots. Second, on Friday, a ferry carrying a bunch of Egyptian workers from Saudi Arabia to Egypt sank. Today, hundreds of relatives of passengers attacked the offices of the owners, throwing its furniture into the street and burning the company's signboard. Because the owners of the company wanted to lose their source of income. Because they made the boat sink and all, they meant for it to happen, of course.
Note to self: Read NPR's "The Mideast: A Century of Conflict" and "The Middle East and The West: A Troubled History".