Untapped Resource

Took my first walk around Hollywood Reservoir today. It is a beautiful place that the DWP won’t let anyone near. You can’t get close to it, let alone fish it or swim it. You can only walk around most of the road that surrounds it from above … Lake Hollywood Drive. But, with all that water, and at 183′ deep, you know it has to be holding some large Largemouth Bass. Sorry about the picture quality. I only had my cell phone with me:

These next two shots are taken through the barbed-wire fence that surrounds the lake:

Great view of the H-wood sign from the top of the dam:

Now, if I could only figure out a way to haul a huge fish up 750′!  

Back in the day, this was one of the DWP’s main sources of drinking water for the city. So, protecting it was understandable. But, now, they tap the Colorado river for most of their needs. Plus, so many other drinking water reservoirs in Southern Cal are fishing-allowed impoundments … why can’t this one be available, too?

Redskins Win Title …

WARNING:  THIS BLOG MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT THEMES! (Sorry, no porn)

… as the NFL’s most accommodating team.  That’s right … the most accommodating!   If you need a win, just play against the Redskins.  The Carolina Panthers hadn’t won a game this season until facing the Skins.  Kansas City had lost 9 straight games, dating back to last year, before gaining a win against Washington this week.  Detroit had to go back three seasons and 18 games before avoiding defeat at the Redskins’ behest.  The Skins even tried their best to accommodate the Tampa Bay Bucs and the St. Louis Rams, 10 and 16 straight losses respectively, who each came up only a field goal short of a victory dance.

Many will argue that this dubious record by the Nation Capitol’s hapless football team makes them the “worst team” in the league.  It is hard to argue against that epithet.  But, I try to be as affirmative as possible in the face of such incredible negativism.

So, in the interest of putting a positive spin on the Skins’ dire situation, I am giving them the title of “most accommodating”.  Anyone who desires to taste triumph might consider making the Washington Redskins their next opponent … they are very likely to oblige.  John McCain, Bernie Madoff, AIG, and the Tennessee Titans … are you listening???

Why all the fuss, Rush?

The incredible noise surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to be part of a group seeking to buy the NFL’s St. Louis Rams has become quite deafening.  He is claiming that he is being discriminated against and, in essence blackballed, from owning a National Football League team.  He bases that claim on the fact that his proposed inclusion in the bidding process by this particular group of investors was going to be opposed by the Player’s Union, as well as some of the more powerful minority groups in this country, for his numerous off-color and even racist comments in regards to the NFL and it’s players.

We could sit here and debate the man’s First Amendment rights, or whether or not a known drug abuser is fit for NFL ownership. We could argue if the NFL is a closed organization that has the right to determine who is part of their “club”.  We could talk about whether or not he has ever truly recanted his intolerant comments towards the players and the league.

But, all of those subjects, which Rush has been wrapping himself up in the last few days, are not and have never been moot.  That’s because the right-wing talk-show host has created this huge media morass after he was withdrawn from the interested investment group, by the group themselves.  That’s right … his own peeps didn’t want him anymore!  It wasn’t a liberal/minority conspiracy or lack of “American convictions” by the league and it’s ownership.  It was simply that Rush’s own people couldn’t afford the liability he represents if they were to make a successful bid … or perhaps they were just tired of hearing him talk.

So, we can spend all our time deliberating these hypothetical rhubarbs.  Or, we can devote our attention to some of the more pressing matters facing our country like jobs, the economy, healthcare, energy, or the recent story that the Arctic ice cap will possibly fully melt this coming summer.  Somehow, I think Rush will stay with the more selfish debate.  I just hope the rest of us can rise above the din.

WP Logo Fun

While the WordPress folks are OOT, they asked us to have some fun with the logo.  Here are my entries …

WordPressident

Watch out! This thing may be loaded!!

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I’ve been told I need an outlet.  Not that I have anger issues, mind you.  But, I see so much inane, insane and mundane things going on in the world around me that I can’t help myself.

So, this blog will be an ongoing rant about anything and everything – shooting, if you will, for the Soft White Underbelly.  Politics, Economics, Entertainment, Sports, Sex, Relationships, Religion, Family, Friends, and anything else that hits a nerve.  Though, anonymity will be well served here, no thing and no one is safe … not even me!