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Pro football is just better.

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After watching a good portion of the second half of the BCS championship matchup between Alabama and LSU, I can only confirm what I’ve always thought: college football (and even more broadly, college sports) pales in comparison to its pro counterpart.

Yeah, yeah, I know the counterarguments. There’s more team spirit and passion among the fans. There’s more team play. Maybe even the rules are better. And other such things. But to me, if I’m going to spend several hours parking myself in front of a TV to watch people play a sport, I prefer they be the best at it. And watching college football players miss point-after-touchdown attempts is not my idea of time well spent.

I will now go back to watching cat videos on YouTube.

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Bruins win! And Tim Thomas is simply divine.

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The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Tampa Bay cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Tim Thomas, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the hockey elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

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Bombing seafaring activists is OK, but try to avoid canine collateral casualties

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Tucker Carlson is back in the news again. (Weird, considering he is normally completely uninvolved with real news.) This time, it’s for stating that Philadelphia Eagles QB Michael Vick “should have been executed” for the crime of killing dogs.

A bit harsh? It would seem so, although dogs have been known to inspire fierce loyalty, so Carlson cannot be completely blamed on this front.

That is, of course, except for the fact that he condoned the 1985 bombing of a Greenpeace ship.

On the other hand, like so many good right-wing firebrands these days, at least he knows how to wield the term “terrorism” like the ambiguous free-for-all word that it is (or should I say, has become). I’m assuming, of course, that Carlson is just as outraged over the twice-investigated Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, for his alleged sexual assaults (the latter of which appears more likely to have actually taken place as described by the victim), as he is about Michael Vick and his dog-fighting.

Right?

(Incidentally, I believe this post somewhat self-deprecatingly — yet in a self-serving way — vindicates my prior post’s point about the detritus clogging so many online news and blog sites. Guilty as charged.)