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11/22/2004: "Is it just me?"

The NBA has sanctioned the most visible players involved in a free for all with paying spectators. Some are saying the penalties are too tough. I think they are too lenient. I would have suspended both teams for the rest of the year in their entirety to send a message loud and clear throughout the land that there are lines you do not cross. You do not cross them regardless of your anger, frustration, or lack of self-control. Owners, coaches, players and fans are responsible for this debacle and I would love to see every one of them smacked upside their financial heads to the point of real financial pain to make that point because it says something about the type of society we are becoming.

We are the land of the free. Free to say just about anything and get away with it. Free to say it even if we know we shouldn’t say it. The lines that you do not cross are becoming non-existent and we as a society are not better off for it. The recent campaigns and media coverage of events in this world are prime examples of the verbal free for all that is running rampant minus the physical punches. I defend Teddy Kennedy’s right to stand up and bellow into a microphone that our President is a liar. I also defend the President’s right to sue the crap out of the moron for defamation and applaud the President’s restraint for not giving him a punch squarely in his glass jaw, something I personally fantasized about doing to hacks on both sides of the aisle during the long and arduous campaign season that was a media instigated feeding frenzy.

Are we all being sucked into this twisted mindset?

Are we all so damn important and narcissistic these days that there are no lines that shouldn’t be crossed anymore?

Shame on all of us, if we are.