Just shut up....

Good morning!

Been busy... no time to post. Now that summer is here, we got a lot to do... important Harleys to ride, car shows to go to.... It's a big job, being a small dog. Lemme tell ya.

Anyway, memo to Clinton Portis: shut up, dude. Whoops, too late.

Of course I'm referring to the dog fighting comments. Which, as a small dog, are quite disgusting to me personally...

Of course you are all aware that Michael Vick, star QB of the Atlanta Falcons, is being strongly implicated in a highly illegal and morally outrageous dog fighting ring, that it looks like, if he isn't running it, he's at least heavily involved in it. Apparently, this guy who makes around $10 million dollars a year playing football has nothing better to do in his free time than to train dogs to fight to the death.... nice.

That's bad enough... truly, it is. But get this: Clinton Portis, another NFL player, comes out yesterday and defends Michael Vick, basically saying "Yeah, well, if he's dogfightin', maybe people oughtta jes mind dare own bizness."

What?? Huh?? Defending dogfighting?? Ahh, Clinton, the phrase "cruelty to animals" doesn't even begin to scratch the surface here... and gentle readers, I must censor myself, and not discuss the particularly horrific things that are done to a dog in the process to "train" him to tear another dog's throat out in a fight to the death....

He also goes on, in a rambling quote, to point out that he knows where some good dog fighting takes place, in secret places on backroads in Mississippi.

Aha. Oh really. Is that right. Hmm....

Now, ahem, this is where I really lose it... right now, we have federal prosecutors, grand juries, FBI Agents, and lord knows who else, crawling up Jason Giambi's ass, trying to pin a steroid rap on him.

(For those of you who don't know, Jason Giambi is an all star first baseman for the Yankees who admitted to using steroids in testimony before a grand jury that was supposed to be sealed but somehow got out.)

(Also, for the record, I really don't care what happens to Giambi, or to Barry Bonds. People hate Barry Bonds because he's an arrogant jerk, not because he's black. Also, because he's been lying about steroids forever. At least Giambi had the sack to say "Yeah, I was doing roids.")

And that's fine. Pin a steriod rap on him, if it makes you feel better. Without a doubt, the pitchers who pitched to him years ago were soaked in roids, and the outfielders who ran down his fly balls were doing roids, and when they threw to second the second baseman who caught the ball and tagged him out was doing roids... but if it makes you feel better, go ahead and try to pin something on this one guy out of 700...

But here's a better idea: take all these Feds, and all these people, and drive them down to Clinton Portis's house, and say "Howdy! How about showing us where that dogfight is?? And how about pointing out everyone who was involved??"

Okay, so that's not going to happen. Fine. At the very least, these reporters who won't stop asking the steroid questions... look, if you're going to hold goofy steroid suspects to the fire, you also have to hold these dogfighting people to the fire. Seriously. Every time a reporter talks to Michael Vick or Clinton Portis, I want him grilled about dogfighting. Grilled.

And hey, Phil Knight? Founder of Nike?? Yeah, pick up the white courtesy telephone... your little million dollar spokesman, Mike Vick, is dogfighting. You sure you wanna be associated with that??? The money you pay him may well be used to breed fighting dogs, Phil. Yeah, call your office...

The whole thing is disgusting to me, I'm sorry. People and dogs have been hanging around together for around 50,000 years, being pals. 3000 years ago, people on the Island of Malta had portraits painted, with their little white dogs, which to this day are called "Maltese".

That's it for today... I'll try to post more often. Been busy.

Until next time!