John Boehener – already reeling from the increase in tanning booth fees – doesn’t wanna talk about “taxing the rich.” I assume that’s ‘cuz he’s rich. Until such time as I become rich, I’m more than happy to not only talk about taxing them, but to actually do it. Once I’m rich, I’ll be happy to pay taxes. Why? Because I’ll be able to afford to, because I’ll be fucking rich. This does not strike me as a complicated issue, but perhaps that’s because I’m just a simple man. It’s kinda like the 7-Eleven rule. “Got a million, leave a million. Need a million, take a million.”

My, my, my. People out there in the sports media world are painting Syracuse (and Pitt) as villains for jumping off the sinking ship that is the Big East. I don’t remember all this angst and anger from them when Miami, Va Tech, and Boston College jumped back last decade, so I don’t really understand all the malice. And here we find the BE had a master plan that would’ve saved the league if only SU and Pitt hadn’t left: adding Navy for football-only. Yes indeed. That move, of course, is now on hold.

Word is also in that both the ACC and SEC have rejected West Virginia. I know the ACC has some sort of minimum academic standards, but clearly the SEC doesn’t, so that one surprises me. I feel bad for WV. Their fans already suffer from inferiority complexes, and this has gotta hurt. I hate to see them stuck in what used to be the BE, which is now possibly going to merge with whatever winds up being left of the Big 12.

I hope they can work out a deal for something better, and I hope we can keep playing them – at least in football.

Oh well, early day. Time to go.