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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had their inductions recently. I usually don't pay too much attention to them since it's basically decided by Jann Wenner who runs Rolling Stone which hasn't been worth a crap since P.J. O'Rourke left. The real reason I don't pay attention is because acts like Madonna are in (which I may have criticized before) instead of real rock 'n roll groups like Rush or Chicago. But here it is again. Metallica made it, but so did Run-DMC. Not to take anything away from Run-DMC, but they aren't a rock 'n roll act. Sure they did a cover of "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, but they had Aerosmith do the song with them. I doubt it gets as popular without Aerosmith. I'm not a hip hop fan, except of course for the Fat Boys because you know they can never be wack. However, I don't care how good Run-DMC was in hip hop. They could be the greatest rap act ever, but this is the rock 'n roll hall of fame. They don't belong. Sure, they had one sorta rock hit with "Walk This Way", but they aren't going to put Deion Sanders in the Baseball Hall of Fame because he was a great football player who had one good season in baseball. And don't give me any crap about their influence leading to Nu metal because while some like Linkin Park had their moments, I don't think anyone should want to claim the spawning of Limp Bizkit.

Maybe I'm the only one who cares about stuff like this, but I was fascinated that a 1937 Bugatti worth over $4 million was found in some dudes garage in England after his death. I'm just offended that he hadn't driven it in almost 50 years and couldn't clean the damned dust off. You have one of the great classic cars of all time and you park it?

It's kind of nice to know that England doesn't stand for public sex. A woman was arrested for pleasuring her boyfriend on the street outside a bar. Three times. My first thought was for them to get a room. Then I saw a picture of her and began to think her having sexual relations even in private should be illegal.

But at least she's just some local junkie. In Uruguay, the interior secretary caused some controversy because she posted a picture of herself nekkid in the shower on Facebook. She defended herself by "saying the photo was not made available publicly or intended to be erotic." I didn't see the picture in question (thank God), but I saw a picture of her and I don't think any picture of her doing anything could ever be interpreted as erotic.

Philadelphia at Arizona
I got the Philly win over the Giants right. I was wrong about Arizona. Even though I was rooting for them, I did not think they could go into Carolina and win. Not only did they go into Carolina, but they dominated. So, now I can root for them and also pick them to win. One reason is Philadelphia is banged up. They may not have a healthy Brian Westbrook who is the only gamebreaker for the Eagles. Another is that Arizona plays really well at home and their defense has suddenly become good. Not adequate. Not decent. They are actually doing well. But the main reason is that Anquan Boldin may be back. Without him, Kurt Warner killed the Panthers with Larry Fitzgerald. How will those two do with Boldin back? For those in the TRU Fantasy Football League, you might remember several weeks back when I mentioned that of all the wide receivers in the NFL, I would take Fitzgerald over any of them (you can see the link here, but it's not safe for work or home for that matter; just scroll past pictures of naked women until you get to the topless girl showing her ass). He gets open. He catches everything. He and Methuelah.... I mean Kurt Warner will lead the Cardinals past the Iggles.

People think I'm utterly insane because I haven't seen a doctor in years. Well, that and other things. Lots of other things. However, the latest study on medical fashion show that my paranoia about doctors and nurses (non-porn star) isn't unfounded. People in the medical profession like to keep wearing their scrubs without washing them even though they know that it's covered in bacteria. Let this be a lesson to those who wish to engage in adultery (no names mentioned) and happen to pick up herpes. Just say that you went to the doctor for a physical and got it from his lab coat.

Now this is a doctor who knows what he wants. He donated a kidney to his wife. Now they are divorcing over an alleged affair by the woman with a man's kidney. He wants his kidney back or a million and half dollars for his trouble. I'm completely taking his side on this one. Sure, he's not going to get his kidney back, but he shouldn't have to give her anything. The allegation is that her affair started a couple of years after the operation. If so, how low rent is that? If she can't go five years without cheating on the man who gave her an organ for filtering urine, she doesn't deserve anything from him.

Speaking of cheating, one of Hugh Hefner's "girlfriends" from that silly reality show has admitted that she would sneak out of the house to bang some other dudes. I must say I love the headline that says "she cheated on Hugh Hefner for sex". I guess as opposed to cheating on him with cards. Let's move into reality for a minute. She's engaged to some other guy. Gee, I wonder is she was sneaking out to have sex with him. Did people really think those three bimbos were actual girlfriends who were having sex with Hefner instead of props to make some egotistical geriatric believe he's still some kind of male sex symbol?

Hey, here's a new girlfriend for Hef. Some college chick is selling her virginity online. And supposedly getting offers of a quarter of a million dollars (I'm holding my arm up so the BS doesn't get on my watch). While I'm sure popping a virgin is something rare in this day and age for non-pedophiles, I just can't see anyone really paying that much for an act that will be over in 45 seconds (that is the average time, right?). My favorite part is that she is getting her Masters in Family and Marriage Therapy. If I was going to marriage counseling, I'd want her. How is she going to tell you that a husband spending time with prostitutes is bad?

Speaking of marriage, a couple that met on an internet dating service got married. At Taco Bell. Now, I like Taco Bell. And I'm not really much of a romantic. But I can't see getting married at a Taco Bell. Going to the Justice of the Peace and stopping at the drive-thru afterwards, sure. Having the wedding there, I don't think so.

Baltimore at Pittsburgh
Yeah, I know. I have an inherent bias towards the Steelers. And I hate the Ravens for being the main divisional rival to Pittsburgh. And I lived amongst whiny ex-Baltimore Colts fans for a few years before they did to Cleveland what Indy did to them (yet they still feel like a victim). Still, I think the Steelers have to stink up the field to lose this one even if the previous games were close. For one, they're at home. They play much better there. They are also playing well since Willie Parker looks healthy. I like Mewelde Moore, but having him and Parker is huge. Not only that, but the Ravens are hurt. They won't have their best corner, Samari Rolle, and Terrell Suggs is a gametime decision (don't worry, he'll play). Besides, the Steelers rolled over the Chargers while the Ravens were lucky to beat the Titans. They won't be lucky again.

In order to beat the Titans, the Ravens got a gift from the referees. I'm fairly forgiving on referee error if they admit they screwed up. In this game, the refs gave the Ravens a standing 8 count (okay, maybe 2) without calling them for a delay of game in which the game winning drive survived a third down. It was bad. The time that ran off the game clock after hitting zero was long. Afterwards, the officials called it a "natural delay". Was he jerking off? That took forever. The assumption is that the ref looks at the play clock and when it hits zero and he looks down, if it's being snapped, they let it go. Well, that's dumb. If he looks down and the center still has the ball, he wasn't snapping it when the clock hit zero.

Want to know how batshit crazy things are in California? Some federal judge decided that prison officials were dicking around with prison health care so he appointed a receiver who decided that the state should spend billions building new "holistic" prison hospitals which included lounges, handball courts and yoga. Supposedly an inmate is dying per week which I don't really believe, but even if they are, so what? I bet a good chunk are dying due to lifestyle decisions they made in and out of prison. I'm not going to sit here and worry about a bunch of degenerate convicts over someone else who didn't do anything to get incarcerated. Considering what a lot of them do, they should be thankful they aren't taken out into the woods and tied to a tree for a bear to eat.

Not that this was the worst prison story I've read recently. In Texas, the Rangers closed down a local prison because prisoners had recliners. How do you get recliners in a jail? And does it facilitate backdoor rape?

Wow, it's a good thing our new Secretary of Education is coming from the Chicago school system. At least it will get him out of Chicago. The latest is that an off duty cop at some high school in Chicago strip searched some teenage girls after a fire was started (what was she looking for?; as a pyromaniac, I know the evidence burns up). Sure, my interest may have been perked up by the words "teenage girls" and "strip searched", but then I saw this statement by parents' attorney - "these are minor children and you don't strip search minor children without first talking to the parents". I've been talking to a lot of parents of teenage girls lately. Idle chit-chat of course.

Now this story about teenage students giving it up doesn't come from Chicago. It comes from Washington which I've reliably been told is a province out west. A court has ruled a teacher can't be prosecuted for banging a student as long as she is 18. I have to agree. I don't think that teachers should be dropping loads on students, but if the student is of age of consent, it should not be a crime. A firing offense, sure. Jail time, no. You can't make a legal differentiation between someone being old enough to get their groove on with an older man and an older man who happens to be a teacher. If an 18 year old having sex with a 33 year old is wrong if he's a teacher, it's wrong in general. Either she is old enough to spread 'em or she's not.

Unlike this situation. A man tried to sell his 14 year old daughter to an 18 year old. That should really be illegal. Although she apparently wanted to go with him. And he was offered a lot for her. $16K, 100 cases of beer and meat. Hopefully the meat was high quality beef. The best part is that he went to the police because the guy didn't pay up. Did he actually tell the cops that he didn't get his beer and meat in exchange for his very underage daughter? And how stupid was he to think an 18 year old would have access to that much money, beer and meat?