Beginnings

They say that every storm begins with a single drop of rain. Perhaps this is what we're seeing in the reports of massive animal kills and Arkansas and Louisiana.  In Beebe, Arkansas more than 5000 redwinged black birds fell from the sky on New Year's Eve over a square mile.  Just a few days before that,  hundreds of fish were found dead in a river. Now,  we hear that hundreds more redwinged blackbirds fell from the sky in Louisiana.  Can reports of alien sightings/abductions be far away?
 
 
Elsewhere in the news there are reports of all kinds of scary happenings.  Brett Favre formerly  (and briefly  of the Jets) was named in a lawsuit today by two so called "massage therapists" who accused him of sending lewd messages.  There was another reporter who accused him of sending her pictures taken by his phone of his junk.
Since when is that a crime?

While we're on the topic of women reporters interviewing male athletes and coaches, I disapprove. Some of you might accuse me of being a piggy male chauvinist, but someone needs to point out that there are times and situations where gender bias is legitimate.  A few weeks ago I heard a woman doing color of a football game and I just had to shut it off.  It was all wrong.  It was awful!  Here I was ready for sports talk and this Barbie voice is talking about blocking and tackling.  It was like listening to someone playing Shostakovich's 5th symphony on an accordion  -- all wrong.

If you ask me, they shouldn't allow women reporters to follow players into the locker rooms or  even on the field on game day. Invariably, they ask the coach "What did your mother have for lunch?" Or, " how great is it to be ahead by 14 points at the half?"  Feelings? Excitement?  You can see it in the eyes of the interviewee:  Please shut-up. Stop asking useless questions.  Go away.

 If they want to have chicks on the TV screen, why don't they show more extensive coverage of the scantily-clad cheerleaders?

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The other big story today is about the Navy captain who  produced what they call "raunchy" videos for use aboard the ship the good ship Enterprise. Certainly captain Kirk wouldn't have approved, but what's the big deal? by all accounts, the films were appreciated by the people for whom they were intended  (i.e. the members of the ship.)
 
What has become of us,  When a popular and effective ship's captain is to be punished and his career to be destroyed because he had a good sense of humor and was willing to perhaps go over the line on a few occasions?     

Just typical of the  wussification  of our culture, I guess.