Avery, Unsavory and other Turkey Stories

Okay Okay - I know I used moving as an excuse in October but now we're moving into our new house and that too has taken an enourmous amount of time along with my day job, my school work and a nice vacation in Bermuda. The last part I really enjoyed. Upon my return a number of issues have cropped up that I'd like to talk about in no particular order.

Sean Avery is a professional hockey player who this week managed to once again cast a dark cloud over a sport which I truly love to watch. Despite its rap for being a mindlessly brutal sport by some or a hopelessly boring sport by others, I would suggest, in my humble opinion, it is by far the most althletically difficult sport of all the professional sports available. It offers the speed of sprint, the physical aggression of football (not soccer), the thoughtful detail of baseball and the sheer excitement of cliff diving (when you're doing it yourself). To have this bafoon expose the general public to his ridiculous behaviour on an ongoing basis defeats all efforts made by the real gentlemen who've played this sport before and who will play this sport in years to come. When teammates speak out against you in the aftermath of such a truly insidious public spectacle then you know you have crossed beyond the line of redemption. I would plead with the league, the NHLPA, the management of the Stars and his team to lock arms and tell him he isn't wanted anymore. I wonder as a father how he would react to someone speaking of his daughter (God forbid that should ever hold true) in the manner he chose. Shame on him and anyone like him.

Speaking of unsavory - I noted that Carl Rove is now out rewriting history for the masses. Apparently, now he indicates that if they had had different intelligence they would not have gone to war. Hold on there fella - that is the biggest crock of horse patties I've heard. You went to war, you knowingly lied to everyone about it, and you did it because you wanted to. You bought it, you own and you are not dropping the trash off in someone else's dumpster. And by the way - no one wins a war - you either lose lots or you lose more!!!

On a happy note Christmas is fast approaching and I've been dreaming of my turkey dinner. I had a great turkey dinner in Bermuda but I realized that the reason we so look forward to turkey is because it goes on and on for days afterwards so by having enjoyed it in a restaurant, you are denied the week long romance to disgust that typically follows these long drwan feasts. So those combine my turkey thoughts for the season. Ho ho ho!!!!

Whew - now I feel better.