What's Bothering Me Today

This is the first of what will likely be TONS of "What's bothering me today" posts.

Today's subject?

"Hand Cut Steaks"

And Places that advertise "Angus" beef...or "Sirloin"

Of course, Joe Consumer nods his head and says "HEY. a HANDCUT ANGUS SIRLOIN BURGER....MUST BE GOOD."

Well let's review.

Sirloin - The cheapest "premium" steak, because sirloin as a rule is tougher than your average cut of meat.

Angus-Is a type of cattle. Fast food companies have been in a marketing campaign to try to convince you that Angus cattle is the greatest source of beef in the whole wide world! Now...when McDonald's is trying to convince me that their brand of cattle used, is the tastiest beef in the world...you have to understand I maintain a skeptical stance.

Hand-Cut. Simply means someone cut the fucking steak by hand.

The American consumer is so dumb that they will swallow anything.

Politics and the Sox

In an absolutely shocking moment today, Republican candidate for president, John McCain picked up the endorsement of Nancy Reagan.

Why is this shocking?

Well. It's not. But the amount of press that this endorsement has received is quite entertaining.

Did the general public expect anything different? Was Reagan going to endorse the dreamy Barry Obama? How about the cyborg, Hillary Clinton? Ron Paul? Dr. Mark Klein?

Of course not, Nancy Reagan was going to endorse the settled Republican candidate, and that is just what she did. The coverage of this endorsement just is part of the ridiculousness that has invaded American Politics. There's a highly interesting and well fought primary going on, and there will be a well fought and entertaining general election fought, yet we focus not on issues, or differences....but a former first lady's endorsement of a candidate from her own party. SHOCKING stuff.

Sox in Japan

I will have a more fleshed out preview/thoughts on the upcoming season. What I will say for now, is that the Sox are not even close to as good as they were last year, but that may be enough to win the East, which is seeing the boogeymen of years past take a step back, with other teams making a step forward.

Welcome

I believe I managed to wipe out all traces of my old blog. Kudos to me!! Anyhow, this will be an extremely self-indulgent journey through the areas of my (often) warped mind. Unfortunately, my very limited brain only cares for a few subjects, namely:

1. Sports.

I am a complete and over the top fan of sports, and have been basically since birth.

2. Music

As you will quickly learn, my love for music is a close second to sports in my world...

3. Politics

Politics is an area where unfortunately, many people my age and younger just haven't wanted to be involved in. Until my hero and man crush, Barry Obama entered the scene.

4. Law

This, unfortunately, is my current occupation, and sometimes bane of my existence. I work for myself (that should narrow down who I am to approximately 10000 lawyers in the Commonwealth).

5. Writing

I would much rather be writing either for film or tv rather than grinding out billable hours and pretending that I like most of my clients. Alas, it doesn't always work out the way we want it...

6. Pop culture

I am a proud lover of terrible pop culture, and frankly have no shame about this.

7. Life.

Because I would like this to remain anonymous, beyond the people who know I have this blog, I'll have to self censor many of the details, but you'll frequently get my musings or rants, or annoyed blogs about the lovely people who seem to enter my life on a daily basis.

Hopefully I haven't run you off screaming as of yet. Stay tuned for a boatload of useless posts.