Trends and traditions

Some troubling patterns are developing with the Aggie football team. In consecutive games against Oklahoma State and Arkansas, they've played exceptionally well both offensively and defensively in the first halves, building substantial leads against ranked opponents. They led Oklahoma State 20-3 and Arkansas 35-17 to begin the third quarters. In both games, they collapsed in the second halves, committing turnovers, dumb penalties, and major defensive miscues. I could write one meltdown off as the kind of freakish occurrence that most teams experience now and then, but at A&M anything that happens twice becomes a tradition.

The other pattern is even more disturbing now that A&M's move to the SEC is official. The last time the Aggies knocked off an SEC team was in 1995, the final year of the Southwest Conference. R.C. Slocum was still the head honcho, the Aggies would finish 9-3 and one of the 9 was a 33-17 win over LSU. Since that victory, they've dropped seven straight to SEC teams. In their 2000 bowl game, Mississippi State (coached by Jackie  Sherrill) beat them 43-41 in OT. Franchione's 2004 team was blown out (38-7) by Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl. Under Sherman, it's been even worse: in 2009, blowout losses to Arkansas (47-19) and Georgia (44-20), followed in 2010 by losses to Arkansas (24-17) and LSU (41-24). Sherman's fifth consecutive defeat by an SEC opponent came in yesterday's game against the Razorbacks. I hate to say it, but this is not a good sign.

Mad man ?

Jimmy Dick Perry, aka El Perrito. Making Sarah Palin look better all the time, and forcing me to think maybe George W. Bush wasn't so bad after all. When Fox News Channel spends time discussing how much he sucks, things must be headed south.

Rip him a new one

In my nightmare, I'm totally paralyzed and helpless, lying on a bed while a TV set tuned to Fox News plays the latest Republican debate over and over again. I keep praying for a power outage, even though it would cause the life support equipment to stop operating -- at least I would never have to hear any more fucking bullshit from Mittenful, El Perrito, the other Rick, or the rest of those psychopaths.

I obviously didn't watch the latest debate, but according to CNN, Jimmy Dick Perry got gang-piled again. All the wannabes tried to get a piece of him. They won't be able to keep him from the nomination, but maybe they'll raise enough doubts among non-Republican voters to keep the motherfucker far, far from the Oval Office.

Sue the bastard...

According to former First Dude Todd Palin, the new bio of Alaskan bimbo Sarah Palin is full of lies. So we should expect her to sue McGinniss for libel... and if she doesn't sue, we can interpret that as a tacit admission that the book is accurate. Is that how it works ?

Tortious Interference ?

Does Baylor have a case against the SEC ? Maybe, maybe not. One blog says not. An article in Forbes says maybe not. Baylor is a candidate for an EMF if there ever was one.

Another W ?

I didn't watch any of the GOP debate on TV last night since I have enough clusterfucks to cope with in my life already. The online commentary today indicates that it was a Mittens vs Perrito Show, with Newter, Pizza Guy, Ron Crawl, the other Rick (Santorum), and has-been Michele Bachmann just taking up space. Without having seen any of the exchanges and relying strictly on post-event analysis, it seems like Perry shares some of George W. Bush's worst tendencies. I hope that as the campaign progresses voters will see the same things I'm seeing and realize Perrito would be another W, only worse.

Perrito is sticking to his "Ponzi scheme" position on Social Security -- just like W stuck to every bad decision he ever made (at least until the wheels came off circa 2006). Refusing to change your mind is considered to be a strength in the subculture of Texan masculinity, so Perry will probably stand behind every piss-ignorant political statement he's ever made. With luck, that'll be enough to keep him from gathering momentum with independent voters and send him into a death spiral in the general election.