Crazy Must Be Fun and Some Retractions

OK, first off I need to make a couple of retractions.  I stated in a post a couple of years ago that I just didn't like Kobe and how strange that was to hate the best player on my favorite basketball team.  Well I'm gonna do something of a flip flop here.  Kobe is OK by me.  Yes he still tries to 'be like Mike' and he is arrogant but he's done like a fungus and grown on me.  The guy will rip your heart out on the court and I love that about him.  He will stop at nothing to beat you!  This is not a full retraction but a partial.  I think back then I was just emotional over the Shaq thing.  Maybe I will touch on Shaq later in this post.  I am still mad at Kobe for letting Shaq's name come out of his mouth at the police station in the Colorado debacle.
 
A year or more ago I blogged about my dread off texting in the house.  I think it just breeds more laziness and further inhibits our ability to deal with each other face to face.  Well, with my 17 year old daughter being crazy and my sister in law being my sister in law (also crazy, see other posts) I have discovered that I don't need to see them and a text is actually preferrable.  With a crazy person in your face you have to deal with it at that moment.  With a text, I got options.  I can reply immediately, I can choose not to reply, laugh and walk away or I can just turn my phone off and not get anything from crazy people until I choose.  I like the control of the conversation I get with text.  I can stop a conversation with a crazy person at anytime......priceless.

My intent in this post is to point out the fact that there are a lot of crazy people in the world.  There are so many of them it makes me conclude that being crazy must be fun. If it wasn't fun why do so many people choose it as a career?  Here are a few in no particular order and some of their antics:

• Rod Blagojevich - My former Governor was recorded trying to sell Barack Obama's senate seat with his wife (also crazy) cussin' like a sailor in the background.  He was impeached but still denies the recorded allegations.  His latest is that he said the he is 'Blacker than Barack Obama'.......that's crazy!
• Tiger Woods - Billionaire with a fetish for pancake house waitresses.  Now he is trying to pay his wife $$$$ to stay?  She can leave and take half so she's got options.
• Sarah Palin - Thinks she is smart.
• Sister in Law - She is a nurse and she got into an argument with a doctor about patient care.  Hummmmm, who has more education here?  Sane people give the doctor their opinion.  Crazy people argue over it.  Really insane people walk out and quit their job on the spot and then hang out gambling at the casino for a couple of months.  Oh, did I mention she has no $$$$$$?
• Shaq - Accuses his wife of stealing money from him then gets back together with her.  She then discovers that he has a similar problem to Tiger only he at least appears to like models versus the pancake pushers.  He would have been better off letting her walk with what she socked away and a nice sized divorce settlement.  Now she will get half and damage your image on the way out the door.  Not to mention an gigantic child support check every month!  Oh, and now low budget models are coming out like fleas on an old dog to say they got with Shaq.
• Terrell Suggs - This guy left his wife for a stripper.  I could stop there and my point would be made but you know I won't.  You're supposed to leave the stripper for your future wife.  Terrell have you ever heard the saying 'you can't turn an ho' into a housewife'?  Apparently, not because he gave it a good try.  So he got with the stripper and had two kids.  Of course the honeymoon didn't last forever.  Now the stripper has a restraining order against him stating that he pinned her down sat on her, held her by the neck and threatened to drown her with a bottle of bleach.  I'm sure that part is exaggerated because the stripper is now suing him for $70 million! Oh, this ain't exaggerated, he is paying $35,000 a month in child support.....to a stripper.  The most they are supposed to get is $20 for a lap dance!!! But if you're crazy the rules are different....there are no rules.
• My sister - Who has a baby shower for 300 people?
• My mother - sends texts to my sister regarding the size of her turds......sad and so embarrassing for me to admit.

Anyway, my point is that if people can do these things without any regard for the general rules of life it must be somewhat fun or liberating.  Then again maybe that is the definition of crazy.

HOW 'BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!  I'll get to sports some other time.

That's All I Got!!!
I'm Out!!!
44Black
  

The Censors

Once again I am being censored. I have been chastised for speaking so freely on my life.  I have been threatened with bodily harm by........let's call her Fidel Castro.  Whatever happened to the First Amemdment, the freedom of speech?  Don't worry, I ain't scared of Fidel (kinda). 
Anyway, have I talked about how good Christmas dinner was this year?  It was 'Off the hook!'  If you remember the post from the holidays last year my lovely sister in law and my wife cooked and it was a disaster.  This year my wife cooked without the sister in law and it turned out great.  So obviously it was the sister in law who was to blame for the food.
And BTW, my wife has been looking hotter than July lately? 
KISS MY ASS FIDEL!!!!  Just kidding Fidel I don't want no trouble!

That's All I Got!
I'm Out!
44Black 

Tiger

So we now know that even though he went to Stanford, Tiger Woods is not the sharpest tool in the tool shed.  On the other hand, it has been pretty clear for a while, to everyone but me, that Terrell Suggs is an idiot.  I will get to Suggs in a later post, but first Tiger.
Someone forgot to tell Tiger that he is a Billionaire and should only mess with people who either have something to lose or he is just paying them for sex.  This guy was messin' with the girl working the drive-thru at McDonald's, the girl who valet parks cars at the mall and the lady who is the night janitor at the local grade school.  He did however, mix in a few porn stars according to reports I'm not sure it this goes on the dumb, smart or bucket list.  As I have said before in other posts, pimpin' and pandering are required freshman classes at Oregon State, my alma mater, but apparently it is not at some of the other Pac-10 schools like Stanford. Now wherever Elin, his wife went to school there is some type of pimp class because either way she wins.  She can leave and get $300-500 million or stay and have a billion.  Even that amount of money is not worth the loss of your family.
Here is a question for you;  Why do we care and why is Tiger losing money over it?  At the end of the day Tiger makes ALL of his money.....ALL, not some, not most, ALL because he is a good golfer not because he is a good husband.  Yes, he has projected an image but still his money comes from being the best golfer on the planet.  I laugh as the companies he endorses pull away from him.  They will be the first ones back in line when he comes back and starts dominating the course again.  When they come back I hope he makes them pay dearly.        
Here is another question; Why do we continue to buy into the images that these people project to us through the media?  I mean really when are we going to make up and understand that the truth is the truth we seek and find for ourselves and not what someone tells us.  And why are we slamming this guy?  Anything that is remotely high profile in any community has groupies and unfortunately for Tiger he was weak, sloppy and got caught.  He has and will pay dearly.  That does not make him any less person than he was before but more light was able to illuminate the truth and the truth is this; Tiger like any other person, athlete, artist, business person or actor that has risen to the top of their respective fields.  They are so extraordinarily focused on their field that they are unbalanced in other areas of their lives.  I'm not making an excuse for him, I am just making a statement.  People, everyone is messed up enjoy Kobe and Tiger because they are extraordinary at something not because you think they are better people in some way.  They are only better at their endeavor.