Monthly Archive for April, 2007

things I’d rather: Listen to Instead of Don Imus

He got served! Poor ol’ Don Imus has been sacked by CBS. Sweet, sugary justice, if not extreme, as this is after all the land of free speech. I’ve heard Howard Stern say and facilitate far, far worse and I’ve heard some valid arguments questioning the relative acceptance of the derogatory deluge found in pop hip-hop in light of this circus.
This joker deserves what he gets after his ridiculous comments, I’m fine by that, but before he withers into obscurity, I’d just like to address the fact that, setting his comments aside, this dude looks like hell and frightens me. Seriously, see if you can pick him out of the following, ’cause I can’t:

Which one is Imus?

I think it may have been time for the heave-ho regardless of the inappropriate comments on the grounds that he scares children.
Anywho, let’s get back to things I’d rather listen to instead of Don Imus:
1.) Star Jones eating ribs broadcast through a stadium PA and channeled into headphones
2.) Rush Limbaugh on the can after a plate of Hooter’s buffalo wings and a Pabst 12-pack
3.) Either Carlos Mencia or Dane Cook’s offensively poor stand-up comedy that they’ve stolen
4.) 3600 cats in heat, in an echo chamber
5.) George W. Bush speak about, well, anything, and that’s BAD.

OK, so I’m no better than Imus. Boo-hoo.

Alligator 1, Human 0: alligator bites arm off of veterinarian

alligator with arm

OK, I saw this picture first thing this morning on Yahoo! of all places, and yes, it’s quite gnarly. Nearly prompted a regurgitation of my healthy string cheese and Coke Zero breakfast, but I held it down. An alligator bites the arm off of a veterinarian that was treating it. Yikes. A little more Faces of Death than Yahoo! News, don’t you think?
Life imitates art, and by art I am referring to Chubbs in ‘Happy Gilmore’. Whether or not golf plays a role in this story is yet to be determined.
I feel especially bad for the dude as he was just trying to help the beast, because we’re always gonna have that guy that just insists on sharing an apple with a bear (which I must admit, sounds dreamy) and gets nothing but a healthy helping of ursine slobber:

bear and man share apple

photos courtesy: Reuters & AP