Quick Round Up

Just a few random thoughts this morning.

People get paid enormous amounts of money to sit in front of a TV camera and read the news from a teleprompter. Is it asking too much for these people to actually be able to pronounce all of the words that they are reading?

Do we really need High School Football "National" rankings? How can anyone possibly know which teams are actually the best and more importantly, who cares?

O'Reilly is once again doing his fake "War on Christmas" segment. Seriously, does anyone REALLY think there is a war on Christmas? I don't think Christmas is in any type of imminent danger. The Winter Solstice, however...Winter Solstice? What's a Winter Solstice?

And speaking of made up "Wars", whatever happened to the "War on Drugs"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Drugs won that "war". Just say blow.

In the "nice try" category, kudos to Limbaugh and Hannity for trying to frame the mess that Duh has made of our Country as the "Obama Recession". But along came that gosh darn fictional liberal media again, and golly gee they went and used those "facts" to show that the "Bush Recession" has been in full swing for the past eleven months. Damn those "facts" and their liberal bias.

Sportscasters, repeat after me, by definition, it is impossible to "control your own destiny". It can't be done. So stop saying it. Come up with a better way to say that all teams have to do is keep winning to make the playoffs. You get paid a lot of money to sit there and pretend to be experts. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a couple of more accurate phrases to make your point.

And John Madden, "audibilize" is not a word. A quarterback can "call an audible" but he can not "audibilize". And don't get me started on "strategize".

Which brings me to my all time favorite, "it is what it is". Shut up! That doesn't mean anything. Stop saying it. You hear me, Coach Tressel?

Sorry to mix sports and politics this morning, but hey, it is what it is.