Sweetness defined

Sweetness can be defined as USC trouncing Oklahoma last night to win the national title game. Huge USC fan here so it was sweet to see. Kind of a downer of a game though, not competitive at all. The only real reason to watch was the "wow" factor. You know, it's like when you're watching something that's going to be a trivia question some day (i.e. most number of passing tds in a championship game by a quarterback ... largest margin of victory.) This got old fairly quickly but not before I witnessed the trainwreck that was the halftime show.

Technical difficulties, traditional country music, and a chorus of boos raining down upon a horrible musical talent. Ashlee Simpson, whom American skewered for fake singing on Saturday Night Live, sang a subpar song in a very subpar way. If you're going to have to sing live, don't choose the mediocre single off your new album, choose something decent, cause Lord knows Ashlee, you suck something fierce. You can only ride your sister's wave so far, and honey your wave just hit the beach. Of course it won't end here, because if we've learned anything it's that Americans like to rubber neck a train wreck.

Think about it, how many times have you been driving down the highway and all of a sudden things slow to a grinding halt? Then you slug along only to find that you speed up immediately as you pass a car that is broken down on the side of the road. People like to see disasters, big stories, and tragedy. It's the whole reason the media exists. It's kind of disturbing actually. You turn on the 11 o'clock news and you hear about a murder, fire, death, snow, the athlete paying child support to 7 women, and a donkey who participated in a local spelling bee. What happened to good news? Does it not exist anymore? I'm tired of the negative press, it only creates a horrible image and more horribleness ensues.

For example, there is a list of NBA athletes who are donating $1,000 for every point they score in their game later this week. I barely heard about this. There are some top notch players as well as low profile, but I bet if it were better publicized more athletes would join in. I'm beginning a trend. I'm going to begin posting good stories on occasion of noteworthy acts of kindess. I'm going to put a more positive look at things instead of being a cynic ... except for when I'm discussing socialist liberals. That's all for now. I'm off to listen to Kelly Clarkson ... wait did I just post that?