Did Nick Say That?

So any football fan who has watched this NFL season thus far has seen the difference between professional NFL Refs and people who are not. The Replacement Refs or as I like to call them the "Scab" Refs are people who either did not have the experience yet to be an NFL Ref or couldn't cut it and have worked at Division II, III or Pee-Wee League Football games. This past week several coaches were fined and several more are under review for "disrespecting officials" during the game or making comments about the terrible officiating in post game press conferences. Lets remember that coaches are paid to win, and when you lose because you have amateurs making lousy calls or sometimes not making any calls I would think they would have the right to be pissed about that. The media keeps putting out these articles that say "Well we may not like the Replacement Refs but while they are here we have to respect them and let them do there jobs and so should the coaches...

Sometimes I think about what the distant future will be like and I picture a teenager taking 9th grade history asking his teacher the following  question about this time in our history. Teen- "So let me get this straight the U.S. used to have a system with two major parties that disagreed with each other to the point where they couldn't move forward on anything because the whole point was to disagree and block the other party from doing anything positive?"     Teacher: "Yes that is basically what they did back then" Teen "Well pardon my language but that is fucking retarded"     Teacher: "Yes that is completely fucking retarded and we can say those words here in the future because we are not influenced by religions anymore and we can speak to each other like adults and swear if the conversation warrants it, and in this case 'Fucking Retarded' sums up the two-party political system correctly" Yes I know I'm a dreamer to t...

Yes, I know politics can be a boring subject but it is an election year and seeing all of the bullshit has me really thinking about our broken system. It is to big of a mess to point towards one thing and say, "fix that, and you fix the problem". That is why I've decided to put some fuel back into this blog and I'm going to start a series of entries on political issues that I see and what I think possible solutions to fix these problems might be. The main thing I have to make clear is that to fix these problems you would have to make major fundamental changes to our political system. Do I think that it is likely that our government would make these sweeping changes? No, because people who have power and money do not freely go about making reforms that would take away their money and their power. So basically these posts will be a 'daydream' if you will. I really think that when people talk about this kind of stuff they think in the boundaries of what the s...