Merry Christmas Everybody! 

Christmas time is here. Here is Austin as excited as can be. Although it is hard to see it, Great Grandpa is humoring Austin by allowing Austin to hang an pine cone from his ear. Hopefuly no rappers or athletes get a hold of this picture or we may start a new fashion trend. 

DEATH! Will he ver see death? Probably not. How do I feel about the juries sentence? I guess you could describe it as indifferent. We really should either revamp the way the death penalty is carried out or eliminate it. It really is pretty worthless the way it is enforced at this time. Is it a deterrent to crime? No, not in the way it is currently enforced. Could it be a deterrent to crime if enforced properly? Possibly. But the thing I really don't understand is why all of the jurors decide that they need their 15 minutes of fame after the trial comes to an end. I just hope that they don't say anything that Geragos can use in an appeal. 

Maddenisms - The best part of watching Monday Night Football is hearing what off the wall thing John Madden will come up with next. He and Al Michaels topped any of their previous work tonight when they spent five minutes talking about the worm after Johnny Morton scored a touchdown. First, they had a difficult time coming up with the name of the dance move, than once Al Michaels took a wild guess at the name being the worm he even stated he could be arrested if he were wrong. Once he recieved confirmation that the dance move was in fact called the worm, John Madden decided to tell us how Johnny Morton was into Martial Arts and that "the Worm" must be something to do with Martial Arts. Then he decided to tell us that Terrell Owens probably couldn't do the worm as well as Johnny Morton since TO is not into Martial Arts. Finally, he and Al Michaels thought they would inform us that people all across America were now doing the "Worm," in their homes and in bars. Gotta Love It! 

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CHEATED! CAL, quite possibly the best team in the country, has been left out of the bogus BCS. I will agree that UTAH is deserving of a berth in the BCS as is TEXAS but two teams are not as deserving and only in because their conference has a guaranteed berth, MICHIGAN and PITTSBURGH. What should have happened is that PITTSBURGH and MICHIGAN should have went to the bowl games outside of the BCS and the more deserving CAL and LOUISVILLE teams should have recieved berths. You could even make a case that the undefeated BOISE STATE team is more deserving then PITTSBURGH. The BCS was supposed to be set up to make sure the best teams play at the end of the season, yet again this year a third team is left on the outside looking in as AUBURN will be watching USC and OKLAHOMA play for what quite possibly could be theirs, the national title. Until the NCAA steps forward and takes power away from power conferences and sponsors there never will be a true national champion in Division I college football. UTAH is stuck with the task of playing Pittsburgh because it is so much easier for the elite to justify a Pittsburgh loss then it is to justify any of the other teams losing to UTAH. Who is California really cares about seeing Michigan play Texas in the Rose Bowl, may the corporate sponsors lose lots of money on that matchup. We, now more than ever need a Division I playoff system. Take the best eight teams in the country, regardless of conference affiliation, seed them according to the final BCS standings and let the National Championship be determined where it should be determined, on the field, not based on matchups determined through a faulty system that assures all of the power conferences get to play regardless of how bad their teams may be (Big East). You could still allow the major sponsors some sort of access to the games. The remaining teams in college football could still participate in a Bowl System, but the championship needs to be determined on the field. 

Listening to Y101 the other night, which I rarely do to begin with, I was appalled when the DJ came on the air and referred to Tim McGraw not by name but just as "the Redneck" when announcing the Nelly and Tim McGraw song. How an on air personality could be so insensitive is beyond me. Okay so it's not, I have listened to Howard Stern on occassion, but I from this moment forward will not listen to Y101. Had a different DJ made the comment "that was Tim McGraw and (insert your favorite insensitive racial slur here)," you better believe me that there would be outrage.