So Gross

So many words and phrases can be used to describe this. What do you say?

Man's Best Friend

So I've been thinking a lot about getting a dog. The problem is that I'm not patient and I'm lazy to try to train the dog not to poop in my house. So I had the brilliant idea to adopt a seeing eye dog dropout. There's various reasons why they drop out such as barking all the time, sniffing other dog's butts, etc. This way, I can get a dog that's already pre-trained (to some extent), neutered, received all of its shots, so on and so forth. The problem is that it can take anywhere from 6 months to 4 years to finally adopt a dropout, if at all. The wait is long because there is an order of priority to adopt a dog. First, the dog is offered to the family that did the basic training for the dog. Then they are made available to families that have special needs.

As a healthy able-bodied single man, it sounds like if I put my name on the waitlist now, I may really be blind by the time I get a seeing eye dog dropout. Y'know, retinas and all. Then my new dog will probably lead me into traffic because that's the part of the training program that he failed. If I finally decide to get a dog, I already know what I will name him. I want to call him Mojo...after Homer's helper monkey in the Simpsons. Yes, I will teach him to steal food for me, feed him lots and lots of donuts, and use those computers that read aloud typed text too.


Pray for Mojo

Learn more about adopting a seeing eye dog here.

Fun Fact of the Day

Marijuana and hash are technically illegal in the Netherlands, but under the country's tolerance policy, police do not arrest anybody for possession of small amounts.

It is sold openly in licensed shops _ which, paradoxically, have no way of legally acquiring their chief product.

Duke Lacrosse Rape Case

There's so much to say about this case, and there's so much already been said. But I heard something about a month ago regarding the case that got me all riled up to the point I had to make my opinion known.

A Recap:
A black stripper was hired to perform at a Duke Lacrosse Team party. She alleges at that party 3 white players dragged her into the bathroom and raped her. The victim identified the 3 assailants to be: David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty. As the weeks have gone by and more evidence and information has surfaced, it appears that these three individuals didn't commit any rape and the district attorney, Mike Nifong, was quick to charge and indict the players. Read more here.

In my personal opinion, I don't think a rape occurred, but I also think these players (along with their other teammates) are not innocent people in this event. Colin Finnerty was charged and convicted with assault on an individual in DC. A couple of hours after the alleged incident, another player, Ryan McFadyen (not accused), sent an email to other players saying that he planned to "have some strippers over" and made references to "killing the bitches," then cutting off their skin while ejaculating "in [his] Duke-issue spandex." 60 minutes did two stories on this subject. In the second interview, Leslie Stahl talked with the parents of the accused players. There is one quote that burns me up. A portion of the transcript below:

"Last question. If Mr. Nifong walked in the room, right now, what would you like to say to him?" Stahl asks.

"I guess I'd say, with a smile on my face, 'Mister Nifong, you've picked on the wrong families. You've picked on the wrong families that you've indicted; you've picked on the wrong family of the Duke lacrosse team. You've picked on the wrong family of Duke University, and you will pay every day for the rest of your life,'" says Rae Evans.

I don't know about you, but as a minority what I read into Rae Evans' comments are "we are rich white people, and we will use our money and influence to ruin your job and life." This kind of attitude pisses me off to no end. It just shows the superiority complex that many white people still have. These kids all came from wealthy white elitist families. It's not a huge stretch (to me at least) that purposefully or inadvertantly they were taught to disrespect other people.

GOOD THINGS!

Good things are happening in College Park, MD. The men's basketball team is on a 6 game winning streak, and in that stretch, we've won over #16 Duke, at NC State, at Clemson, FSU, #5 North Carolina, and at #14 Duke. We've become the team in the ACC that no one wants to play. We finally have strong point guard play with Vasquez to complement and feed Mike Jones' sweet outside shot and Strawberry's all around game. They finally have the intangibles of energy and the will to win in these players that they lacked since the 2002 championship winning team. The last couple of years MD just had an ass grabber (Travis Garrison), Mr. I am Maryland, Hear me Roar (Nik Caner-Medley), and a dumbass who couldn't stay eligible (Chris McCray). Alas, I digress. Enough with the past. The current team still isn't perfect. I think our inside game is still a little suspect. Gist and Ebekwe have a tendency to disappear or get into foul trouble at times. Even as I make this observation, I'm not worried. As a team, they're needed more as a defensive presence than offensive, which they excel at. The Terps rank #8 nationally in shot blocking. And if they get into foul trouble, we have Osby (and to a lesser extent Bowers) coming off the bench to relieve them with little drop off in production. Our guards are so good, they can penetrate and dish to whoever our big man is in the middle. I can't wait for the ACC and NCAA tournaments to start. We should be throwing some hurt down on someone.

On another ACC basketball note, it looks like Virginia is on it's way to winning it's first regular season title since 1995. I can't express how disappointed I am. I just don't like UVA basketball and their fans. They have one good year and they get so full of themselves. (I rant about it in more depth below.) You know they'll talk about it for at least the next 12 years, which is how long it'll take for them to win another conference title. It's like how Mike Mardesich will forever live in MD lore with his 12 point (and some # rebound) performance in the upset over #1 UNC back in 1998. Read the article here. I can imagine him like Al Bundy reminiscing about his high school football days. Anyway, I hope we end up playing the likes of UVA and VT in the ACC tournament and kicking the crap out of them. I want to make their littlest fans cry just like we do with those li'l Dookies.


Don't worry li'l bastahd. You'll grow up and get used it.

Read the next line and tell me where you think I pulled it from, "there were the two heroes, awash in a sea of ecstasy they had created together, clutching each other as if they could never let go." A romance novel right? WRONG! It's the opening sentence of an article in the Washington Post documenting Virginia's victory over Duke on Feb 2. I feel it embodies UVA's fanbase. This is the complete opening paragraph. "There were the two heroes, awash in a sea of ecstasy they had created together, clutching each other as if they could never let go. Sean Singletary hugged J.R. Reynolds as University of Virginia students swarmed the floor, and the pair soaked in the sweetest moment of their careers." I understand for any college basketball team, a victory over Duke is a big deal, but does it really need to involve unrequited man love? Then there's also "Moments earlier, Singletary had somehow willed in an acrobatic, one-handed floater with one second left in overtime to give the Cavaliers a 68-66 comeback victory over No. 8 Duke. Singletary weaved his way around a Will Harris screen and into the lane, through a maze of blue jerseys and jumped, seemingly with nowhere to go as Josh McRoberts switched on to him." If I had realized that journalism meant creative writing maybe I would've majored in it. I want to try too. "Singletary sliced his way through the maze of seven extremely talented Duke players, like a man possessed only to find himself facing 6' 10" power forward, Josh McRoberts. Unfazed by the 2 foot disadvantage, Singletary left his feet and floated like an angel around the defender gently lobbing the ball through his outstretched arms and into the basket at the buzzer for the win. As he came down, Singletary fell into the waiting arms of the UVA cheerleaders cheering excitedly on the sidelines. Afterwards there was an unknown white substance left on the John Paul Jones arena floor. Tests are being conducted."

Read the full article here. Hopefully, you'll be luckier than I and have a vomit bag nearby.