Several little things to comment on today. The first warranted a dedicated post: The Running of the Big Wheels. Our buddy the Perfect Line was a participant in this event so I figured I'd give him a shout out on the old Blogarooni. The second is a perfect example of what happens when high paid athletes think they are above the law: it bites them in the ass. Adam "Pacman (Punkman)" Jones has been a Tennessee Titan for almost 3 seasons. In those 3 seasons he has been in trouble with the law off the field a total of 10 times all of them in and out of Tennessee. The latest incident is the most serious to date. He and his thug buddies are at a strip club in Vegas. Apparently they came in with a duffel bag full of cash (about 800K) and started flinging money around acting like they were all that. Allegedly he started smacking some of the strippers around and a fight ensued with the bouncers and club security that ended in shots being fired from his group and a security guard paralyzed. He's been drunk and disorderly, etc before all this. He is on video using his being raised in the Atlanta projects as and excuse for his behavior. His father was murdered when he was 6, and his mama spent some time in jail for drug possession. He is also and admitted pot head. He's managed in the past to stay out of serious trouble with the help of his high priced lawyers. Not this time. The NFL Commissioner has suspended him for the entire upcoming Football Season without pay and he is told to stay away from the Titans. The Titans owner has said that as far as he's concerned the team will go forward as if Jones isn't coming back. Harsh words, but it's what had to be done. I honestly don't get these guys. You start with nothing but manage to keep ahead of the crap by being good at sports. You get all kinds of scholarships, etc and you are drafted right out of college by an NFL team and paid a huge salary. You now have the means to want for nothing. You can bail your family out of the projects and make life better for yourself. Okay so he's 23, that's no excuse to be stupid. Does this guy honestly think he's going to be Teflon coated when it comes to the police???? Just ask Jose Canseco. When he was an Oakland A, he had a temper and was a party guy. He also thought he was above the law, but soon realize that he wasn't. Morons. Grow the Hell up and get a clue. Next we have a further rant about the youth of today. Last night the Metro Nashville School District just passed a dress code for K-12. Khaki pants and collared shirts, tucked in of course. Their reasoning: It makes all students equal, it's harder to hide weapons in non-baggy clothes, it helps the kids focus on studying instead of trying to be the fashion Diva. Hey I think it's a great idea. Most of the students, of course, don't think so. They say "it cracksdown on our right to self expression"....yeah whatever. Here's their self expression: Pants that are a size or two too big that are worn with boxer shorts underneath. The pants are pulled down past the butt cheeks and held in place with a belt while the boxers are exposed. Over this comes a t-shirt, long sleeve, and a sports team uniform top (baseball style, football style, etc) worn very large and baggy. Add to this some kind of ball cap turned at an angle. So I guess "brain damaged, clown who can't dress himself properly and likes to wear his underwear hanging out his pants and likes to waddle when he walks" is the expression they are trying to make. Wow......I feel so secure in the future of this Country. This is the boys. Now for the girls. The expression they are trying to make is this: take one t-shirt way too small so it is tight enough to see the seams of the bra you are wearing and comes down to the bottom of ones rib cage exposing belly, belly button and small of back to God and everyone. Now add pants that come up to just below the points of the hip bone which probably necessitates the waxing or shaving of the bikini line because said pants aren't covering much up down there. It also probably leads to the habit of "going commando" when it comes to underwear (in other words, none). Oh yeah, the t-shirt is usually scoop neck and the more endowed young ladies are spilling out of the top of said shirt. So I guess "15 year old whore who might as well just come to school naked" is the expression they are trying to make. Whine, whine whine. Guess what? It's your own damn faults. You dress like morons and come to school "packing" the shit is going to hit the fan. The adults who have all the rights and run the world are going to reach a breaking point and say, enough is enough. Oh, and God forbid girls.....if you are slightly overweight, and hey who isn't these days, please don't wear the belly shirts.......That's like me wearing a Speedo. Hell I don't take my shirt off for fear of scaring small children emotionally with my flab and hairy countenance. Having supervised mall excursions and dress codes are the fruits of what you have sown. You think there are no consequences to your actions. WRONG!!!!! What gets me is parents and principals complaining about this saying "some folks can't afford these clothes". My ass. They can afford Sean John and Nike and all that bling.....they can afford khakis and a polo shirt. Hell Wal-Mart will have them super cheap as does Old Navy. Ross and TJ Maxx have khakis and polos all at usually under 10 bucks. I remember when we were in school, it was jeans and t-shirts, or Dockers and Polo's with Top Siders. Girls wore the same, sometimes the wore skirts or dresses. Even the thugs wore jeans and t-shirts and derby jackets....even wore combat boots. We looked like human beings. None of the girls I went to school with dressed like whores. They wore tight jeans....but they came up to their waistline not their hip joints. The more endowed girls wore tight t-shirts, but it was their size!!! No exposed bellies. Even the Chicano dudes wore clothes that fit them.....they were the "rebel" dudes back then. The silliest thing they wore were hair nets(I'm still not sure why) or bandannas around their heads that came down over their eyes......the solution, faculty told them to take the bandannas off. Simple. No bitching about "rights" or freedom of expression. They took their bandannas off and all was cool.
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