Lassie, come home...

Not to get into an arm wrestle: my point was that Vick did 2 years, while a couple other football guys did a few weeks for death by DUI. I wasn't suggesting Vick's actions, direct or indirect, were 'ok' or 'not wrong'. I was comparing what fellow colleagues had received for killing human beings, while drunk. 'Justice' and punishment just seemed somewhat unequal.

And no, I don't hold football players or athletes or celebrities or politicians, as role models, and certainly not heroes. They all get to opine like any of us, but the media and, some of the population, seems to pay more attention when 'they' do opine.

How many human beings are killed in the US by DUI drivers you ask? Well, it has 'improved' over the past decade: for 2008, the latest year of hard stats I can find, the number of people killed by DUI drivers was just under 14,000 or, just under 40% of the driving fatalities...about every 37 minutes someone is killed by a DUI driver.

I could care less that Obama called the Eagles owner, and mentioned Vick. Carlson's remarks were in context of that show segment berating Obama and his policies. Fair enough. Don't care. His segue, especially with the "I'm a Christian..." prelude, leading into his judgemental and extreme remark is what made me go, Huh?

Yes, we all get to give our opins: yours and his, and mine. My orig remark is wondering why anyone would pay attention to those kind of talking heads, other than for some kind of 'entertainment'. It certainly is not enlightening or informative, in my opinion.

Dogs are great, pets are great, and so are human beings...