Just keep plodding forward

In an apparent attempt to squeeze more stupidity into 2007 than an already-saturated year could normally tolerate, Kansas City Chiefs GM Carl Peterson is returning under the guise of an "unfinished job" (dude, you've been in KC for 18 years, couldn't you have gotten around to it by now?), as is coach Herm Edwards, whose combined leadership blazed the team to a 4-12 record this year. It also appears tight end Tony Gonzales, one of the few playmakers left on the team, may be shopped around for more draft picks. It means next year will somehow be worse than this one, and I wouldn't wish that on any team outside of Oakland. Well, maybe one other.

The Bolts have the three-seed in the AFC, and they'll be hosting the Browns Titans on Sunday afternoon. Sandy Eggo's one of the weakest three-seeds in history, and even if they prevail against the Browns Titans, they stand little to no chance against the Colts. This is without factoring in Norv Turner, the Bolts' head coach and idiot-savant without the -savant. The forecast calls for torrential pain.

But for unadulterated dumb, you need look no further than Oklahoma. Or, actually, Arizona, where one of the Sooners has been sent home from their bowl-game trip after trying to shoplift a coat. Wow. Not that I think his career is over; actually, in Oklahoma, I think this makes him eligible for a few more athletic scholarships. But shoplifting coats in Tempe, Arizona...huh. Next year has to be smarter than this year, even for an election year.

Pondering life's little trade-offs

While thinking a bit about the story-telling atrocity that is the Spider-Man story "One More Day," (warning: spoilers for a horrible not-even-a-story story which nobody should buy anyway) I think I figured out a little bit about how life works.

It seems that every step that's taken comes at great expense, somehow, and it makes me wonder...what if we're unconsciously presented with the possibility of what we might gain, and knowing only that we will lose something, but never what, specifically -- and it invariably ends up being a price we wouldn't willingly pay?

I'm sure that the universe is simpler than we allow ourselves to believe. I'm sure that we understand this universe on an intuitive level deeper that we're prepared to acknowledge. And given our propensity to personify everything, I'm not sure this isn't too far from the truth....