Everyone wants a Daddy. Why? It's so weird to me.

Daddy #1 - Roger Goodell

QOTD
"Michael Vick would stand a better chance of renewal if he had simply beaten his wife or abandoned his children."
- Mary Carter, WSJ letter to the Ed today
Lots of NFL player shenanigans:
  • Michael Vick - couple a years in the pokey and bankrupt for dog fighting.
  • Plaxico Burress - couple a years in jail for carrying a registered gun.
  • Donte Stallworth - 30 days in jail and a civil $$$ settlement for killing a guy while driving drunks... I guess the guy he hit wasn't in the best shape either and ran out into the road or something.
The other thing these guys share, after paying their due to society, is an extra punishment doled out by NFL commish Goodell. For example, Goodell has suspended Stallworth for the entire season! So, Stallworth satisfied the courts and the family of the victim, but that's not enough for Goodell. WTF? Why is there a separate court system for the NFL that begins and ends at Roger Goodell's desk?

Daddy #2 - IDOT

IDOT.
IDIOT.
The Illinois Dept of Transportation is running commercials that literally brand people who get a DUI as a "loser". Here's a grab from one of their spots:


Of course the real losers are the people paying for these ads (and requisite dinners and strip club visits that are part of the sales process for these projects/$$$)... you and me.

In some tasty synchronicity, the WSJ has an article today on a woman who will be caned in some backward-ass country for drinking a beer. Maybe they could bring her to Illinois and brand her too... for the children.

Daddy #3 The feds

Oh, forget it.

Why is society tilting these days to such an authoritarian, centralized structure.
I don't know, but I do know... they ain't no Daddy.
peace... yow, bill

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