Artestimonial To Idiocy

yesterday i drove past a bridal boutique called 'brides by dementia'. i circled around in the parking lot to do a second drive-by, just to confirm. yep, either someone named her daughter dementia, or someone was trying to get a little too fancy on the naming of her store. either way- ugh...

last night on the news, i saw an interview with ron artest- some basketball guy who hit? attacked? jumped on? some guy who threw beer on him? at him? near him? near his friend? anyway, apparently he was sentenced to community service to undo the damage of his outburst. so, guess what the judge had him doing? talking to a group of kids. okay, that has good potential- a public apology in front of his smallest fans, warning them to stay on the right side of the law. but guess what this clown spoke about? how not sorry he was. how someone can call you names, but if they do anything more than that- hit, kick, throw- whatever- then you'd better retaliate. huh? is this our criminal justice system bankrolling a program where wayward sports heroes can corrupt what little chance there is of the next generation NOT getting in trouble with the law? is this vigilantaism on my dime? so this yahoo just kept going on and on about how he wasn't going to apologize. he wasn't going to characterize what he did as a mistake. he urged all the little kids to do the same- if someone 'steps up to you' you respond in kind. no 'just walk away'. no 'be the bigger man'. no 'i wish i had considered my actions before i acted like a big goon and jumped on some little geeky defenseless beer throwing suburban idiot.' so, what's up? is it not bad enough that our national "heroes" are decidedly unheroic? do we really need to actually put them in front of children to preach and glorify their idiocy?

maybe they should run a disclaimer before all sports matches. WARNING: the following people are good at throwing balls or chasing balls or running with balls. other than that, they are, by and large, weak-minded amoral thugs. enjoy their performance, but do not, under any circumstances, try to emulate their behaviour in real life"

or maybe the next sports season should be called the NBA by dementia.