It’s the day you’ve all been waiting for. That’s right, it’s the first Saturday of college football season and, more importantly, the first game of the season for SU as we take on our old friends from south of the border, Penn State (admittedly, not quite the same without Joe Paterno – who my father, and therefore I, could never stand) down in Met Life stadium in NYC at 3:30. Lucky for you, the game is on ABC (sadly, no Keith Jackson) if you live in the parts of the country that matter most (and also the midwest and even North and South Dakota and most of Nebraska, for some reason), and on ESPN2 for the rest of you. So there’s no reason not to watch. At least for a while – then we’ll see how it goes.

I’ll tell you what, though. Obama better not start bombing Syria until after the game, ‘cuz if it gets preempted, I’m gonna be pissed.

We’re in a new league (the ACC – god that sounds weird), have a new head coach (the previous coach took pretty much the whole staff to Buffalo with him; I was considering becoming a Bills fan, but it looks like they’ll suck as much as if not worse than the Jets), new QB (we don’t really know who it’ll even be, but my money is on the transfer from Oklahoma – who must be going through some culture shock right about now, as we haven’t had any tornadoes or blood worms in the water). We lost some of our best players to the NFL, and we really don’t know what to expect this year, but we are cautiously optimistic that we at least won’t suck.

That can all change pretty quickly, though, so I’ll either be back here to gloat after the game, or I’ll go and sulk somewhere for a few days.

Speaking of bombing Syria, I saw that the UN inspectors on the ground there had to hustle the hell out and over to Beirut ahead of schedule before they got a few cruise missiles dropped on them (yes, in order to punish Syria for killing Syrians with gas, we’re going to kill more Syrians with missiles. Missiles, good. Gas, bad). Sounds familiar – I think I’ve already seen this movie.

Somebody get on the horn to Oslo – I think somebody’s in line for another Nobel Peace Prize.

So, I’m trying to avoid this whole Miley Cyrus thing, but the media keeps shoving it in my face (so to speak). I have not looked at the video, and I certainly didn’t watch the VMA awards. Hell, I don’t even know what VMA stands for, other than maybe Valid Memory Address. Though since it was apparently on MTV, I could probably figure it out (I also don’t know what Hannah Montana is or was, but I take it it had something to do with Disney). Frankly, I just can’t stand looking at that poor girl’s shaved head with those two Moses horns or whatever the hell they are.

I also had no idea what “twerking” was, so I had to look that one up. Is this not what used to be called “Dirty Dancing”? I dunno – it all seems really stupid to me, and not worthy of this month-long media scrutiny. I certainly don’t seem to be able to work up any righteous indignation over it. I’m not even outraged with the outrage – just bored by it all. :yawn:

I got an e-mail from Governor Snotball yesterday (it started out with, “Dear Friend,” so I guess we’re buds now) and looking at it quickly, I saw a mention of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, so I figured – what with him being a “Democrat” and all – it would be something about how Labor is what built this country and makes it strong and how we should honor the working people who make this country great. You know, stuff that an actual Democrat would say (or at least used to). Sadly, no. He wanted me to take a NYS Democratic Committee survey about what “direction” the party should be headed (oh, and it asked if I’d be willing to donate to the party or go to party events and stuff like that – and since I’m always up for a party event and willing to throw in a few bucks to buy another keg, I said sure, though as I’m not a registered Democrat, I figured he meant would I work for the Working Families Party).

So, anyway, I took their survey, and told them that I think they should legalize and tax the sale of marijuana for both medicinal and recreational purposes, enact a Medicare-like single payer healthcare system for New York (which they could probably pay for with the pot tax revenue, if they don’t cut taxes for Wall Street billionaires instead), and change funding for education from local property taxes to an additional state-wide income tax (and/or the pot tax – it would be a good way for the kids to help fund their own educations), ‘cuz I don’t think the quality of your kids’ education should be dependent on where the school is located and how rich the people who live in the neighborhood are).

I figure they’ll get right on that.

Oh well, time to go read some more SU football stories while we’re still undefeated.

Have a happy Labor Day weekend