- We all want to have a good time on New Year's Eve. Whether it's going to a party with friends, going to Times Square to celebrate with the masses or just a special get-together with family, everyone wants to have a good time and to ring in the new year in enjoyable fashion. However, wanting to have a good time doesn't justify dropping your 4 and 7-year-old sons like yesterday's trash and leaving them alone at home while you go out to celebrate New Year's Eve, which is what one mother did. This idiot left her two young children alone at home while she went out to party in Memphis, and while she was gone, a fire broke out in their apartment building. Without their mother there to, I don't know, help keep them safe the way all decent mothers do, Romello Winters, 4, and Christian Griffin, 7, were unable to get out of their apartment in time and they both died in the fire. Now their mother is in jail, charged with criminally negligent homicide. Yeah, negligent homicide would be an apt description here. Nothing screams negligence like leaving two kids who, combined aren't old enough to drive a car, alone in your apartment. I know the pain of losing both of your sons in a fire must be immense, unbearable and unimaginable, but whatever punishment this crappy mom gets won't be nearly enough, because the deaths of her sons are on her hands.
- Memo the alarmists who pleaded with Kenya's opposition movement leaders to pull the plug on their 'Million man' protest that took place Thursday: shut up. You say the protest could further the violence and unrest in your country, which is an erroneous statement on several fronts. First, the violence and discord are already at a fever pitch and this protest isn't going to send things over the top because they're already over the top. Second, a little mayhem and chaos are sometimes necessary in a country's development, as in this case where an election looks suspiciously like it was rigged in the favor of the incumbent, a member of the party currently in power. Opposition leader Raila Odinga ignored the pleas to call the protest off, which was absolutely the right call. Don't be silenced when you have the power to speak out against injustice; fight the fight. The government bans the march? So what. Of course they banned it; they're the ones your marching against. They want to repress those who oppose them, just like any good oppressive government does. Equally hilarious is our own Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice phoning Odinga and asking that the two sides resolve their disputes peacefully. Thanks for the input, Condi. Exactly what business is it of yours, anyhow? We need to stop butting in on the rest of the world's problems, but that's another battle for another day. For now, march on, Kenyan opposition members, march on. And burn a car or smash a storefront while you're at it.....
- I don't know about all of you, but I watched last night's Orange Bowl game and I'm concerned. No, it's not anything I saw from the players that concerns me, nor is it the fans. There were no injuries that have me worried, nor was there rioting and disorderly conduct by either team or their fans that has me concerned. No, my concern is for University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino, a man who immense girth and plethora of chins have me very, very worried for his health and well being. The more Kansas football games I watch, the more I fear that Mangino, who has to be pushing 425 pounds, will have a heart attack and die right there on the sidelines. I'm not kidding about this either; he literally does have multiple chins and appears to have a higher body-fat percentage than a bucket of lard. Earlier this season, he wore a crushed velvet track suit on the sidelines for one game and I wondered what the rest of the world was going to do now that all of the crushed velvet in the world had been used up on a single piece of clothing. I know football coaches work long hours and typically don't have the best diets, nor do they have a lot of extra time for exercise as a general rule. However, there's still enough time to spend half an hour a day working out and buying a salad to eat instead of picking up five Big Macs with cheese for lunch. I say this as someone who loves college football and appreciates the great job you did guiding a program that has been a perennial doormat for years to a 12-1 record and a BCS bowl win, coach: Lose the weight and get healthy, because I'm afraid of what will happen to you if you don't, and you should be afraid too.
- Sometimes I just don't get law enforcement in this country. Often, cops just go haywire over the simplest things, arresting people, seizing property and throwing the book at people who haven't do much of anything amiss. Take the tale of Suwei Chuang, 36, as an example of what I'm talking about. Chaung was just minding his own business, going about his day-to-day life, stockpiling a massive cache of weapons and more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition and bam, the cops are busting down his door and putting him under arrest. Chuang, a resident of New York City, had guns in his car and home and as I mentioned, tens of thousands of rounds of ammo for those guns, but what's the big deal? So he's better equipped than many small nations and could probably stage a hostile takeover in many countries around the world with his gun stash, so what? If this is going to become a country where people are arrested just for amassing ridiculous quantities of weapons and ammunition, then I'm not sure I want to keep living here. Where is the NRA when you need them, anyhow? Our own bill of rights spells out our right to bear arms, and to the best of my knowledge, there's no limit put on the number of arms we're allowed to bear. Take a chill pill, NYC police.
- Animal lovers are another group that usually don't make sense to me. I like animals, don't misunderstand me. However, when animals attack humans, I tend to come down on the side of the human, except in the case of Roy of Sigfried & Roy, because to be honest I think any dude wearing sparkly, sequined vests and sporting that bad of a mullet while f'ing with wild animals like that deserves what he gets. In the case of the 350-pound tiger at the San Francisco Zoo that escaped its cage and killed a teenager visiting the zoo 10 days ago, I don't see how anyone could take the side of the tiger. Yet there are dozens of animal lovers, lining up to visit the zoo upon its reopening and saying that they were there to show support for the tiger. What the frak? You do realize that a) the tiger doesn't know you support him, mostly because he doesn't know what support is, b) he has no concept of people being pissed at him and he doesn't realize that a single negative word has been spoken about him because he's a f'ing tiger, and c) he freaking killed a human being, right? It's great that the zoo upped its safety precautions and has the big-cat enclosure closed for the time being, but zoos have had signs up for ages warning people not to pester the animals and they don't do a lot of good. If I'm visiting the San Francisco Zoo, I'm keeping a 1,000-foot distance between myself and the big-cat enclosure at all times.
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