Let me off this fucking doomed planet!

Hey all, how's everyone?  Not that anyone could truly be "OK" any more... considering.  I'm choking on a little more rage than usual today.  This first item I was going to mention yesterday but I never got to it.  On Saturday, I went looking again for one of my favorite snacks of all time, Spap Oop.  Ok, yeah it's Doo Dads but anyone who knows me knows I usually open snacks like this from the bottom, snacks with flavored dust.  This is so the dust can re-settle back through and re-coat the pieces.  Therefore, spap oop.  When I got home I looked into it online and found that Nabisco, in their infinite wisdom, discontinued it almost (yikes) ten years ago.  They must have had a lot of it stocked up cause I remember buying some last about 4 years ago.  I just thought my store had stopped carrying it.  I also found that there's somewhat of a cult following calling for it's return.  There was a site where people were discussing how best to re-create it, and their solution sounds like it's worth trying.  Unfortunately, it involves patronizing the vicious bastards who terminated the oop in the first place.  You start with Nabisco's mixers, traditional style, pick out the Ritz crackers, and dump in some salted peanuts.  I''l try this next weekend.  If anybody tries it sooner, please let us know how it is! 

The rest of the global obscenities which have me packing my interplanetary tote come from the news... and I guess I'll just mention them each briefly to avoid a mad rush for the rocket.  I want to be sure I get my window seat. 

Did you know that the courts in Saudi Arabia right now are considering whether or not to intentionally surgically paralyze a man as punishment for paralyzing another man during a fight a couple years ago?  Yeah.  Evidently the victim in that country can ask for a specific punishment, "eye for an eye" being one of them.  I know we kill people here for murder, even some non murder crimes warrant the death penalty.  I guess most of us have gotten used to the idea, as the threat of capital punnishment is sometimes a great deterrent to crime.  The idea of putting someone on an operating table with the intention of severing his spinal cord exactly where his victim's spine was severed just seems a little... well, it's hard to come up with a good word for it.  A little extreme.  It smacks of our old buddy Joe Mengele.  Something that we should have gotten past by now.  I imagine that as a deterrent it might just turn some heads and make people think twice but really... this is 2010. 

The next in line for today's rant is something that might not sit well with a lot of readers, but so what.  It's about how fucking retarded the entire NASCAR world has become in recent years.  Case in point is this past weekend's "win" by Kyle Busch.  Seems that it's not only not wrong to intentionally wreck someone who's in your way, it's actually something to be rewarded.  (The fact that he wasn't disqualified and allowed to keep the "win" as proof).  Long story short, at one point Busch tried to pass Brad Keselowski and didn't quite have room to edge in front of him, didn't clear Brad's bumper, and failed in the pass attempt sending Bush back down the track.  Mr. Bigshot thought that Brad bumped him intentionally when all he was doing was holding his position, his right.  Later in the race Mr. Bigshot Kyle Busch intentionally spun Brad out by ramming him from behind.  I'm indicting the entire NASCAR entity here because as I said, this is evidently "not a bad thing".  Ok, the crowd booed him after the race, but I get the sense that it's something people these days want to see.  How is it that people aren't completely ashamed at this unsportsmanlike behavior?  Have we all forgotten the crash that killed these people's hero Dale Earnhardt?  That crash was coming out of a turn, not at full straightaway speed, and looked to me at least like he would hop out of the car, wave and proceed to the track doctor to be checked out as "ok".  Clearly even a seeminly mediocre crash can result in an unexpected fatality.  And these idiots just wreck someone on purpose out of frustration.  Bad enough they do it, but to not be sanctioned, to be allowed to keep a win based on it, just plain retarded. 

Ok, I had some other crap that bugged me but I'll just sit on them for a while as this is getting a little long today.  I'll just finish up by saying... Bring back the oop!