I thought Canadians were more enlightened than we philistines down here in the States, but, judging by the rioting in Vancouver last night following the Canucks loss to the Bruins, maybe not. At least they have health care to take care of any injuries. The important thing is that hockey season is finally over. Now we just have to wallow through the next two-and-a-half sports-less months until football starts up again. Not that I’m in any hurry for summer to be over (seeing as it hasn’t technically begun just yet; the thought of the nights starting to get longer again soon is pretty sad). Whether I’m just getting old or still have a winter hangover I’m not sure, but I have no desire to see snow again anytime soon.

The votes are in, and al-Qaeda has elected its new leader (or however it is they do it). What’s old is new again, and the AQ boys have apparently bucked the trend to try some new blood, and gone with that old guy, whose name I don’t feel like looking up to get the spelling right. It’s kind of like the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination all over again, where they went with the crazy old guy, instead of a crazy young guy. No doubt al- Zawahiri (OK, I looked it up) will pick some young ditzy moron to be his #2 (but you can be certain in won’t be a woman).

No movement on Gay Marriage in NYS, except that the Assembly passed their version of the bill yesterday (which was no surprise). Republicans in the Senate have yet to get over themselves, but speculation is that they may be holding out to make a deal to pass this in exchange for something that screws people in some other way.

I’m also sad to report that fellow SU alum (assuming he graduated; I’ll have to check that out – maybe we have a loophole here) and one-time NY Giant hero (for his “helmet catch” in the Super Bowl, which is pretty much all he did in his rather brief career) thinks that legalizing gay marriage would be the first step on the road to anarchy.

“You can’t teach something that you don’t have … so two men will never be able to show a woman how to be a woman.”
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“How can marriage be marriage for thousands of years and now all the sudden because a minority, an influential minority, has a push or agenda … and totally reshapes something that was not founded in our country.”

Um…. Not real sure on that first sentence. So, does that mean that my wife should be teaching me how to be a woman? ‘Cuz she’s not doing a very good job (and I really have no desire to teach her how to be a man, though I wish she’d at least try to watch football with me).

As for that second part, I should point out that Tyree is a black dude (and was apparently not a History – let alone African American Studies – major at SU), and as the TMZ article points out…

FYI — Tyree’s statement comes almost 44 years to the day after interracial marriage was legalized in the United States … thanks, in part, to the agenda of an influential minority.

Oh well. As I’ve mentioned before, most of these jock types aren’t really people I’d care to hang out with. Oh, they’re free to go ahead and beat the crap out of each other for my amusement, but I really hold no emotional attachment to them once the game’s over.

Speaking of getting the crap beaten out of you, Roberto Duran turns 60 years old today. When asked how he felt about having another birthday, he reportedly said that this one was OK, but “no mas.”

Which is pretty much how I feel about work.