Tonight, Tonight, Mike Vick Comes Back Tonight...

Ladies and gentlemen, you read it correctly. For the first time in 2 NFL seasons, Michael Vick, noted dogfighting enthusiast, will be playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. His reinstatement and signing by the Eagles has been a move that received mixed reviews, some feeling that his crimes were too heinous to garner reinstatement and that he should never be allowed to take an NFL snap again. I, on the other hand, disagree.

While his crime was heinous, he has served his sentence and complied with the terms of his release, so far as we know. In that effect he should be able to come back to his previous vocation and be allowed to once again excel at being overrated and a one trick pony...pending that would have been allowed by Roger Goodell, and it happened. As you all should know, the NFL is a business. The main part of that business is winning, if you're winning then you are doing good business. From the main office standpoint, if you're selling jerseys and making money, then you're doing good business. For the NFL, Michael Vick represents both of those goals, he gives the Eagles a better chance to win and he gives the league the opportunity to sell more jerseys. So guess what, Mike Vick isn't going anywhere.

Of course, when all of you protesting crusaders realize that your efforts to protest Vick are futile, you could always go protest Donte' Stallworth. I mean, he did kill a man and got only 30 days in jail. But then again, maybe to you the life of a human is less than the life of a dog.

If I can view the game, I'll be back tomorrow with a response to Vick, if not, then I'll be back Monday morning with a round up of most of the pre-season action from this weekend. And yes, that includes the Sunday night Broncos/Bears game. But, unless something awesome happens (i.e. Cutler gets injured), then there will be no mention of McJaygate.

I leave you with this refresher on Vick...

RIP Michael Jackson 1958-2009

Regardless of your opinions on Michael Jackson, it is irrefutable that today the music world lost a legend. The King of Pop is dead. I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan growing up, I mean, I knew the songs and I liked a lot of them, but I wouldn't consider myself a fan. The respect was there, though, and still is today for the great MJ. Say what you will about his eccentricities or his affections for children, but Michael Jackson the performer is still easily better than 95% of the pop acts currently out today. And for that, I say Rest in Peace. There will never be another King of Pop. And with that, I leave you with this...

Uh Oh, Three More Things...

Once again, welcome to another edition of "Three Things That Irritate Me." Tonight I will be covering politics, sports and a certain movie about giant robots that came out today. So without further ado, let us get right into it.

1. Obama and His Television Specials
Earlier this morning, my comrade in writing covered his views on this subject here. Now, while I am all for the use of technology as a means to get information to the public, there comes a point in which it is necessary to look a little deeper. President Obama is a politician, plain and simple, and by doing all of these specials he is working to present what he is trying to achieve in a way that is more appealing to the masses. Instead of presenting his plan and why he wants to do this in a speech or radio address, he is choosing to invade the airwaves of ABC to give us the necessary information through a town hall meeting format. So what is wrong with that, you ask? Well, simply put, everything. ABC has refused to allow airing of opposing viewpoit advertising during the special, leading already to a strong indication of one-sidedness in the preceedings. To go along with it, the special will be Obama fielding questions from "average Americans" who were selected by ABC News. As such you can expect to see little to no pressure on the plan and all the questions will be planned to allow answers that highlight the points they want to sell to the public. It's basic public relations, and it will be how they run this whole operation. The issue isn't his use of various forms of media to get out the information, the issue lies in the method in which he is doing so. Instead of a blatantly one-sided production, why not allow for opposing viewpoints to be addressed and responded to? What is it that you are afraid of, Mr. Obama? Maybe instead of working on health care reforms that are not currently a pressing issue, the President should focus on the economy and the wars overseas that we are still involved in. Would it be that difficult for you to make progress on this, Mr. Obama, or are you content to wait out the economy a little longer and pump in more money we already don't have that will only come back to haunt further generations?

2. LSU Wins National Championship, This Just In: SEC Dominates
Tonight LSU won the College World Series 11-4 over the Texas Longhorns in Omaha, Nebraska. Once again this year, the SEC triumphed over a Big 12 opponent in a national championship game and now the SEC has won two of the major three college sports in America. How can anyone deny the greatness that currently is the SEC? Oh wait, people still will, but forget the haters. For the rest of 2009, the SEC is the most dominant conference in college sports, and the forecast looks sunny for a great future, too.

3. Transformers
This is not my full review, that will be coming in a few days, probably Friday. I saw the film last night at the midnight IMAX showing in town and can honestly say I was blown away. After seeing the film, I lifted the review embargo and began to look at what was being said about the epic robot masterpiece. What did I find? The film being struck down by bad review after bad review. Well guess what, everyone, it is Transformers. There is no question as to what you will see when you go in, it will be nothing but robots blowing things up. The only movie that needed a story was the first, to tell the origin. After that, all that is required is a means to get from one giant CG robot fight to the next. As many of my friends know, I didn't enjoy X-Men Origins: Wolverine, mainly due to the horrible handling of the characters involved as well as the lame wrap up to try and bring the film together with the X-Men trilogy. So what is the difference with Transformers? The difference is that with Wolverine there is a major story involved and mythos that need to be followed to make a film that works and represents the property in the closest possible way. With Transformers, the only mythos you need to follow is that there are two races of robots who are fighting. Simple as that. Transformers is a solid action film full of plenty of amazing robot fighting scenes and a solid amount of Megan Fox (also look for Isabel Lucas who is definitely in league with Fox when it comes to hotness). Look for my full review Friday.

To combat some of the seriousness of this post, I leave you all with this...

And Now For Something Completely Different...Giant Robots Blowing Stuff Up!

As many of you know, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comes out tonight at midnight. As such, I will be seeing it on IMAX and will post a review sometime tomorrow afternoon. Let it be known now that I am a harsh critic when it comes to things from my childhood and comics. As such, I will be harsh with this film and pull no punches.

I am also going to use today as the first of the YouTube video of the week, as expected it is from Transformers: The Movie. This movie came out in 1986, before I was born, but it is still awesome and a part of my childhood. And it gave us this great song...



Being that I didn't do one last week, here is another little gem as well, play this post off keyboard cat!