Hello all. It’s officially 2008, and all in the world is not fine. And while it’s in my nature to post a significantly scathing rant, it seems that a few of my friends have already done so, making my potential rant seem so 3 days ago. So instead of a ranting review of 2007 I’ll instead be doing a Best and Worst series of current things going on in the world.

–indulge me here would ya?

Best and worst 1:

Best Free Entertainment: Pandora

If you haven’t yet discovered Pandora please do so immediately because you’re an out-of-touch idiot. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and will expand your music knowledge exponentially. Enter a group or song you like and it will find artists similar in sound and style. It’s pretty much my favorite thing in the world right now. Pandora.com

Worst Free Entertainment: “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila”
Well, I hesitate to say “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” is the worst “free” entertainment for a few reasons.
First off, it’s not free…it’s cable. But truthfully if you have a TV and don’t have cable or satellite then you should just trash your TV because it’s probably a tube-based, black and white, turn-dial dinosaur. And while you’re at it, lose the CD player, tape deck, Beta VCR, AMC Gremlin, land-line telephone, and 8-track you’ve got collecting dust on your grandma’s old console stereo.
However, maybe you know better than I because there’s nothing worse on TV than this abortion of a show. (Not including evangelists, and baseball…but again, we are talking about “entertainment”)

Tila, a Myspace discovered celebrity ho, searches for love by inviting a group of men and lesbians to compete for her in a series of challenges in the hopes that she can somehow find true love ala “Flavor of Love”, and “The Bachelor.”

(For those of you lucky enough not to be in the know she’s the E.T. looking muther fucker in the middle with the nice body and the world’s largest noggin.)

What’s worse, it’s horrible even for a reality show. Watch this, and watch your IQ drop at least 50 pts. Why do I know about it? Because I recently purchased a 32″ LCD HDTV and I can’t…turn…the god damned thing off…. argh!

Best Sports moment of 2007: The Mitchell report.

Yes, Baseball is NOT a sport, and yes I hate it more than people who kick puppies. So why is the Mitchell report the “best” sports moment in 2007? Because by discrediting the validity of the game of baseball, it lessens it’s popularity (In the long run) and makes more room for other REAL sports to get more air time. Less baseball, more sports = good.

Worst Sports moment of 2007: The New England Patriots “Spy-gate” debacle.

Memo to Boston: your Patriots are cheaters. You disgrace the great sport of Football with your lack of integrity. You may win a Super Bowl this year, but your prior championships are tainted by the fact that you assholes have no scruples.

Think about it folks: if you are willing to cheat against a team who is as horrible as the Jets, a team whose coach is a former assistant in NE, then who AREN’T you willing to cheat against? Keep telling yourself your team was on the up and up when they won 3 Super Bowls by 3 points each time. Hmm…I think illegal game tape might have come into play there…ya think? How many first downs and touchdowns were helped by such tactics in the past?

Even worse was the fact that the NFL did very little in penalizing the team and organization. Beli-CHEAT should have been suspended for the entire year..if not banned from football for life. Letting a cheating coach continue sets a dangerous precedent in the NFL that compromises the integrity of the game.

More to come…stay tuned.