It's Monday Night, and I Don't Watch Football. Also, Blackwater Gets a Pass.

Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo has agreed to a six-year, $67 million deal.

From the AP:

Being quarterback of "America's Team" has fit Romo quite nicely.

He's already dated country star Carrie Underwood and been linked in gossip magazines to Jessica Simpson and, as of this past weekend, Britney Spears. Romo spent his bye weekend in Los Angeles and wound up at the same place as Spears, landing him back in the tabloids.

"It comes with the territory, I guess," he said.

So do the big bucks.

I honestly cannot wait, cannot fucking wait, for this country to go down in flames. (i'm thinking fall of Rome meets Mad Max, but without Tina Turner. Although don't get me wrong, she's done some fine work, I just wouldn't wish that on her.) The thing I can't figure out, is will I watch from across the globe, or will I stay here to watch people burn their sports memorabilia in trash can fires to stay warm?

(while walking around in wal-mart the other day, I asked myself, "Soo, what don't I own in the Dale Earnhardt motif?")

There are moments when I feel like fleeing this country is giving up, and that to stay here and fight for positive change is valiant, and that maybe even some of this place is worth saving.

But no. When I read that, (and the next item) NO. We will get what we deserve. So take that foam #1 hand and wave it for three hours tonight before you go back to your deadend, wage job at 8 am tomorrow. Go ahead and root for someone that wouldn't take the time to piss on you if you were on fire, and feel free to spend that hard earned money supporting our faux-gladiators and all-too-real coliseums.


Monday Night's Reason #2 Why We Get What We Deserve, or, Why "They" Hate Us

From CNN.COM

State Department investigators promised Blackwater guards immunity from prosecution for last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Angry? You should be. I am. And I'm comfortably adjusted in an air-conditioned home, completely car-bomb and bullet-riddled-children- free!

If you were an average Iraqi citizen, one torn between conflicting ideologies, living in kaleidoscopic violence, and your country's "freedom-delivering" occupiers completely shielded their own armed, murderous vigilantes from prosecution, wouldn't those conflicting ideologies begin to become painfully, vengefully lucid? Wouldn't that hesitance, that patience, that personal and political moderation finally take its last offensive blow? Those weapons sold and traded like common goods on the streets - would you still decline to take them up in your own arms? Could you still justify pacifism and non-resistance toward the United States? Honestly. How would you not riot? Why would you not fight?



And if you think Iraq might have some say in prosecuting these mercenaries, well think again. I mean, even though we're saying we want the Iraqi government to start taking charge, we deny them complete sovereignty over their own country:

Security contractors have immunity from Iraqi law under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq.

You, and more importantly the Iraqi citizens, have Paul Bremer to thank for that decision. Bremer should be tried for war crimes. Or, at the very least, criminal dumb-fuckery.

Guess what his title was? Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for post-war Iraq.

Humanitarian assistance.

Unbelievable.

He also received a Presidential Medal of Freedom.


I'd say "unbelievable" again, but I think we all pretty much know that while Bush is in office, those Medal of Freedoms are about as valuable as a Grammy.