My Sick Mind

Every time an athlete signs a lucrative contract, the griping begins. "These Goddamned ballplayers make too much Goddamned money!" The guy complaining is usually by a guy wearing a uniform top and ball cap. What you never hear is anyone griping about what actors or TV stars earn. Or supermodels. Here is a list that Forbes magazine put together of what the top 5 supermodels (should supermodels be capitalized?) earned last year. Gisele Bündchen $25 Million Heidi Klum $16 Million Kate Moss $8.5 Million Adriana Lima $8 Million Doutzen Kroes $6 Million I guess I don't live in the supermodel world, because I couldn't pick Doutzen Kroes out of a police lineup, so maybe I'm a little biased here. (For reference, that's her on the right) We live in a world where someone can earn a 7-figure salary based on nothing more than the way they look. Pardon me if I think that's a little screwy. OK, a lot screwy. Men in the crowd will proclaim, "She's worth every...

The haikubreakup site published one that I submitted. Click here to read it. I've heard the phrase "John and Kate plus eight" about a hundred times over the past week and I have absolutely no idea what it means. Is it a TV show or are they real people? Or both? As I sit here, ABC is televising the Scripps National Spelling Bee. I'm not watching it, because I don't think kids spelling is captivating television, but I'll bet a week's pay that some kid with a foreign name wins it. No way somebody named Adam Smith or Jane Williams can spell better than a kid who was probably born in another country. They win the Geography Bee too, the foreigners. It's probably because we're so ethnocentric that we don't know or care which country borders Yemen or the name of the longest river in Bolivia. It doesn't concern us until we're sending troops in - then we're experts. A gay student at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles named Sergio Garcia...

DETROIT – General Motors, the company that put tail fins on a Cadillac and was once the nation's largest employer, moved to the edge of bankruptcy Wednesday as debtholders refused a last-ditch deal. Crosstown rival Chrysler hoped to pull off a quick exit from Chapter 11 and prove there is hope yet for a leaner Detroit. Investors who are owed billions of dollars by GM rebelled against a plan to accept a sliver stake in the company in exchange for their bonds, one of the government-imposed conditions for restructuring out of court. A bankruptcy filing could come within days — perhaps around Monday, which had been the government deadline for GM to reorganize. Wow, there's a shocker. The company that helped put one person in a Yukon is going bankrupt. Hard to believe. I guess we're supposed to feel sad or something? It's like that 300-pound guy that develops heart disease or a hooker that comes up with AIDS. We hear about it and we're supposed to develop feelings of...

One of the problems with writing this junk every day (or nearly every day) is that sometimes, I have to follow something interesting and insightful with something else. Usually, it pales by comparison. That's where the flower photos come in handy. Of course, the Coca-Cola 600 was delayed a day by rain, then shortened today by more rain proving that God answers all prayers, but sometimes the answer is "no." Either that or he doesn't pay attention to auto racing, or he figured the best way to make the race safe was to cancel it. Or maybe He just doesn't like wasting expensive gasoline and rubber by-products for our entertainment? I'm not sure. Maybe they should look into the credentials of that guy who did the invocation yesterday. KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia – Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world's largest lizard were not...

We're faced with a lot of conflicts as humans. Today, for example. NASCAR held its annual Coca-Cola 600 auto race in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to the race was where the conflict occurred. A religious figure (a pastor or clergy of some sort) came out to offer the invocation, thanking his God for providing the world and whatever else is involved in making the country great. Then, a group of bagpipers played "Amazing Grace." After that, a half dozen Marines fired 5 shots in the air (blanks, I'm hoping) and a bugler played "Taps." Back and forth it went, from warfare to God. Maybe they're the same thing? Then, someone sang "The Star Spangled Banner," another song glorifying war (one that we lost) and paying homage to a flag. As the song went on, some warplanes flew over the track at a dangerously low level. I guess that's designed to make us (a) be thankful for warplanes and (b) be glad that they weren't dropping anything on us. Th...