Steelers Win Fifth
Hack. Cough. Barf. Gag me with an Iron City swizzle stick...
I must be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. I'm always pulling for the underdog, or rebelling against the status quo. Once a Steeler fan, I had a warm spot for the Seahawks in last night's game. Ouch!
Growing up in Pensacola I really had no home team to pull for, and since all the other kids in the neighborhood loved Dallas (no doubt thinking the star-helmet was cool), I became a Steelers fan. At that time Dallas' biggest foe was Pittsburgh (yes, I'm talking about the 70s).
Then I played organized football for a team called the Raiders, and despite my best efforts I became an Oakland fan. My second year playing for the Raiders I wore #58 - cool indeed; a Raider but with Jack Lambert's number.
Then the Raiders moved to L.A., the NFC began a 14-year reign of the Superbowl, and I got lost in a big resin bowl, the cheapest booze I could get, and a series of trashy redneck girls.
Okay, could I digress more?
Lately the AFC has been the better conference, and I still pull for the underdog every year. So I was a bit disappointed last night. Poor time management, unenthusiastic execution (I counted three first-downs lost due to apathetic receivers/backs), and the failure to capitalize on what was the Steeler's worst performance all season with a healthy Roethlisberger.
But hey, at least Seattle's performance wasn't as pathetic as the Rolling Stones' performance...
Feedback on the bartcop.com Flap
Apparently bartcop has already acknowledged fucking up. Kind of.
Actually, the feeling I get is bartcop.com's "acknowledgment" was O'Reilly-esque; it technically admitted making a mistake, but mostly just derided me.
I'm getting three questions today (paraphrased):
(1) Didn't you see (bartcop) acknowledge the mistake?
-- No. I'm in a situation where the software on the only computers I have access to blocks most political sites, including bc.com. So the only way I can check out my favorite political blogs is by linking to search engines' cached pages of those blogs. And the last time I did that with bartcop.com was on or around the 30th of January - the cached page on Google was dated 27 January. Since that time I've not bothered.
(2) Why did you say (bartcop.com) is pro-George Bush?
-- I didn't. What I said was bart/terry/whoever, just like the GOP, loves $ above all else and is therefore just another money-whore conservative. If the editor thinks I called him pro-Bush then his reading skills are piss-poor.
(3) What's the big deal? It's not even that good an image.
-- It wasn't about a single image. It was about the complete dissing of me since last September - coincidentally the same time I stopped sending bartcop.com money to publish my comments/links/images. It used to be a twice-(or-more-)a-month event; since September it's been a not-once-in-five-months event.
And I've sent him gobs of stuff...
