four words: good players, bad team

if you want anal over analysis, just tune into tsn for douchebag commentary of pierre mcquire and bob mackenzie. they'll give the charateristics of this being a huge disappointment, colossal failure, an epic diaster, and it could go on.

point is, hockey pundits won't be short of work for a good period of time.

doubtfully any blame will be placed on wayne gretzky. in these parts of the world; actual criticism against #99 would set off a fire storm similar to cartoon drawings depicticting a prophet.

can't wait for rossi dimanno's column lacking any actual sport knowledge filled with made up words and story telling equivalent to that of grade 6 creative writing assignment. what the fuck is a "gossamer" and no rossi you cannot cross pollinate two people.


i will say this, ovechkin is the real deal and russia's clutch player for many tournaments to come.

and in the spirit of irony, two canadian athletes captured gold, including cindy klassen who is taking home four medals from these olympics. something no canadian has ever done.

but our sports media will be relentless on the men's hockey team and all other sports suffer as a result. in four years, you won't remember the name cindy klassen but you'll remember dumb penalities by bertuzzi and nash.

canadian sports: where acknowledging success is just harder than beating on the defeated.

the other night i saw wedding photos of an old flame in which expected bitterness was none but rather was overcome with feelings of glee and soft smirks since.

maybe brides need to a wait bit before gaining the 20 pounds. give the fella a bit of fun and satisfaction of revelling in your youthful body.

surely, beauty won't be around forever but mere engagement isn't the right time. i assume there's still kids to be had.

she's barely 22 and already an old maid.

and in the interest of fairness, the groom isn't particularily attractive and i give him 4 years before a vicious onslaught of baldness makes the buckethat a daily choice of headwear.

i'm not bitter, really. just doing this for myself in which 3 year emotional investment turned out to be a complete bust. in which someone toyed with my heart and my dignity till the end.

but i digress.....
and i wish the young couple all the best in the world.

i suppose kanye west depicting himself as jesus isn't as big of a story as that of Prophet Muhamed cartoon depiction. if kanye does this and christians aren't all up in arms burning down buildings, then shit, it appears muslims are all militant terrorists.

it is was only a cartoon; no big deal, and besides, freedom of speech protects blah blah blah. if you don't like it, maybe you don't belong in our country. at least, that's the european position on the issue.

trying to make sense of how a cartoon has come to be the biggest international relations story this past week is complex.

but here's my take on it. at the heart of it, europe and europeans in general are racist, nationalistic creatures who in recent decades have seen their borders become pores for muslim immigrants. or if racist is a bit harsh, then at least eurocentric now finding themselves in a changing demographic among their own people. the idea of nationalism is a european concept and its people have gone to great lengths of fighting each other in the name of nationhood. now with 50 million muslims on the continent, europeans are getting nervous.

to an extend, nationhood entails a geographic location but more than anything, it's an identity. and take any european country and it's a white christian identity. shit, not long ago, nations were attempting to literary eliminate those who did not fit into this mold.

again, new immigrants are comprimising this supposed identity and face of nationhood.

last few decades have seen muslim populations pop up all throughout europe. the nations that decided to republish the cartoon contain europe's largest muslim populations; france, germany, and italy among others.

the original cartoon was published months ago and only in recent days has caused a stir when editors all over europe collectively decided to republish the cartoon in show of solditarity of upholding West's covenant value: freedom of speech. sadly, disguised behind this was a calculated and deliberate act of hatred to provoke the muslim world and its european dispora.

it's a scapegoat to further isolate europe's muslim population as a "see? we told you so! how can we accept them if they cannot tolerate our freedoms." this situation was looming on europe's door steps when last year, turkey's EU membership was stalled on the basis it's population is predominately muslim.

not to make make yet another lame nazi cliche comparison (probably grossly out of context), but hitler's propogranda began on depictions of jews and we saw what ensued.