A Bitching Blog

So far, the story of the Olympics is Michael Phelps.  We know what he eats for breakfast, what size his shoes are, and that he’s double joined in his chest.  And all the attention is deserving.   I mean, to date, he has won 7 gold medals and he’ll be going for the record breaking 8th gold at a single Olympic Games later in a relay race.   But folks, let’s put it in context…  HE’S A FREAKING SWIMMER.  To put a news headline after his photo finish win in the 100 m butterfly as “heroic” is just plain idiotic.  Soldiers are heroic, fire fighters are heroic.  You get the picture.  How utterly assinine is it to compare a swimming race to the feats of true heroes.  I don’t for one second diminish the amazing talent that is Michael Phelps, but put it into perspective.

And while I’m rambling on about the Olympics, I just got a glance at race walking…  WTF?  This is an OLYMPIC EVENT?  Traditional timed events I get like running, swimming or rowing, etc.  But in racewalking, it just means you suck at running so you had to make up a bogus event.   Why walk when you can run?  Yeah, like next time I’m trying to catch a bus, I’m going to racewalk.

By now, the whole freaking world has heard about the grizzly Greyhound bus attack that happened in Manitoba by one Vince Weiguang Li. News sure travels fast these days. So fast that the victim’s family heard about it first from a reporter. I guess trying to get the scoop trumps moral decency.

I’m not going to mention the victim’s name as I don’t want to add my imprint to the blogosphere that sullies his name and forever entwines his identity to Vince Weiguang Li. But I have no qualms about saying Vince Weiguang Li is a sick fuck.

And as if we weren’t all sickened by this event, someone had to add more gruesome tidbits to the story on YouTube. A recorded radio transmission at the crime scene “not meant for public consumption” by the RCMP was uploaded describing what the “Badger” (code name for Vince Weiguang Li sick fuck) did with the body. Seriously, what’s wrong with these leakers or trashy reporters? What’s up with the RCMP that they could not contain the situation? They fail to notify the victim’s family before the media frenzy and now the leak gets out? Absolutely no respect for the family whatsoever. Let the man have his dignity in death.

For some, I guess making a name for themselves off the misery of others is worth being an asshole.