News And Notes

Another day, another terrorist attack. After some in Iraq, Afghanistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Lebanon......I could go on, but now they are back in England. And an Associated Press writer shows common sense is not part of the job description as he wonders what the connection could be. Mohammed Asha, Muhammad Haneef, Sabeel Ahmed, Khalid Ahmed, Bilal Abdulla? I caught the connection pretty quick, but it took Ben McConville about 21 paragraphs to mention there might be a Muslim connection. Of course, it doesn't help that the new British Prime Minister, Robert Brown, has stuck his head in the sand and told his ministers not to mention the fact that the terrorists are Muslim. Just because they are Muslims and radical Islam is most likely the main factor in their decision to try to kill a bunch of club hoppers and Scottish tourists is no reason to mention that. I guess people shouldn't mention that most Ku Klux Klansmen are white, because we don't want to offend white people who aren't in the Ku Klux Klan.

Now, I certainly won't give Brown the trophy for the most clueless when it comes to Islam. Not after reading about an Episcopal pastor who converted to Islam, but yet continues to be an Episcopal priest. It's one thing to have interfaith dialog, but this is flat retarded. As one theologian mentioned in the article, the status of Christ in the two religions means they aren't compatible. She can get away with that in Seattle, but I'd really like to see her go to Saudi Arabia and mention that she's a Muslim for Jesus.

On a lighter note, a man in Sweden is getting partial disability because he's a heavy metal music fan. He's 42 years old and can only get a job washing dishes? I didn't realize being a loser was a disability.

So sad. Al Gore's son and namesake was just busted for getting loaded on weed, driving 100 mph and carrying a personal pharmacy in his Prius. I'm sure his father was proud that he was driving a hybrid when caught because it's good advertising. I didn't think a Prius could do 100. Of course, doing 100 mph does lessen your gas mileage. I find the most interesting item to be that he was busted with an anti-depressant and ADD drug that he didn't have a prescription for. Granted, if my parents were Al and Tipper Gore, I would probably be depressed and unable to pay attention.

Speaking of weed, we just had a recent revelation that Dirk Minnifield smoked pot the night before the original Dream Game, and he thinks it cost UK the game especially after he passed up a dunk late in the game in favor of short jumper which was deflected by Charles Jones of Louisville. UK went on to lose in overtime. Now, to begin with, I'm like everyone else - shocked, absolutely shocked to find out a college kid was smoking pot. Now, the question is whether or not it affected his play. Maybe for his career. I know Billy Thompson had drug problems his first three years at Louisville when he was viewed as an underachiever. He got clean his senior year when UL won it all. Now, did the one night of pot hurt Minnifield for the Dream Game? Beats me. I've never smoked pot so I don't know how you feel the next day. I do know a hangover would affect him (or so I've been told about these hangover things), but I've always been told the advantage of pot over alcohol is no hangover with pot. Besides, I heard for years he was toking up all through high school and college. Does anyone really think this was the first game he smoked pot the night before? And Billy Thompson was on that UL team, so it wouldn't surprise me if some UL players weren't out in the parking lot with Minnifield. Minnifield was a great dunker, but Bozich is definitely right about one thing, Charles Jones was not an easy man to dunk on. Claiming your drug habit cost your team the game almost a quarter of century later is a bit much.

I really don't care about the New York Yankees. For one, it's baseball. Two, it's baseball. However, I have to chuckle about the recent escapades of the Alex Rodriguez soap opera. First, he gets caught on camera with some blond stripper with big knockers in Toronto while the wife was back in New York. And apparently, he was followed all over the city by the photographer and still took the woman back to his hotel. Genius. Now, his wife is wearing a shirt to a recent Yankees' game with "F--k you" printed on the back. Not sure why that's a scandal. Should fit right in at a New York baseball game. And supposedly, she's not all that mad about the infidelity thing (which makes me think he's got a good pre-nup). After all, it wasn't like he was playing golf in Pennsylvania.

Still, it doesn't have near the shock value of the two women getting it on in the bathroom at a public pool with kids all around. Oh, and another woman was taping it. You know there is a time and a place for everything. This doesn't seem to be the right time or place for something like that. Of course, if the bystander who wandered in wanted to make them stop, she should have gone into a stall and took a dump with lots of loud grunting. That's a mood killer right there. At least I hope it is.

I wonder if any of those women who like taking their clothes off in public are going to make the big time. You know, pictures in the top of a pizza box. Nothing says sexy like porn on a greasy cardboard box. Don't they have the internet in Canada?