Free Mike Vick!!!

Okay, I realize that people are up in arms about Mike Vick's reinstatement to the NFL.

I just don't get why. Mike Vick fought dogs. Okay, got it. Not the best activity. Not really responsible. Apparently, illegal! However, like all things in life, there is a sliding scale to legality.

Dog fighting, as it stands, is pretty low on the list of things I get upset about.

I'm much more concerned with "murder" (see: Ray Lewis, Leonard Little - both longtime, protest-free NFL players), "girlfriend and baby killing" (see: Rae Carruth), "wife abuse" (see: too many citations to count or tally or reference here given my storage capacity limits from blogspot), etc... to get worked up about a guy who managed a dog fighting ring.

Know why? I've been to a dog fight. Its pretty intense, yes. But most of the owners I know truly love their dogs, and I haven't been to a ton of fights, but I have never seen a dog put down for losing. That's just hype. Fact of the matter is, dog fighting is actually fun to watch. Just like MMA. Or like that time we televised "Shock and Awe".

But that's just one component of the inanity of this latest craze. You know, we have guys here in the USA that breed human fighters. But they aren't labeled as criminals. They are our 5-star generals and our politicians who's policies can lead to the death of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of deaths. Why is this not a moral outrage. After all, we are expected to blindly "support our troops" despite evidence that would indicate we fight avoidable and often times useless wars, no? These are men who are celebrated and toasted nationwide.

But lets not expose the inherent lunatic hypocrisy in making daily headlines about how bad a guy Mike Vick really is by talking about things that matter, when we can merely trump it up like he's evil incarnate.

After all, some friends of his fought dogs in his yard at the house he didn't live in.

The horrors.