Word Soup

If you hadn't heard, star NFL quarterback Mike Vick is in some very deep shit for participating in dog fighting, and the indictment makes several references to wholesale slaughter of animals:

"In or about April 2007, PEACE, PHILLIPS, and VICK executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in "testing" sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road by various methods, including hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground."

That's bad enough, but then go read former NFL star Deion Sander's mentally limp justification spew in the Fort Myers News-Press:

"What a dog means to Vick might be a lot different than what he means to you or I."

and

"The reason this is turning into a three-ring circus is that baseball is boring, basketball is months away, football is around the corner and we in the media don’t have a thing interesting to write about,"

So Vick's murder of animals is just because his unique intellectual perspective causes him to view the mortality of dogs differently than you or I, and the media coverage of a major NFL star getting busted for the dumbest fucking thing in the world is a unique result of their boredom.

That kind of distortion is usually reserved for K-Street and Congress.

With a few exceptions, writers don't return punts because they suck at it. The reverse is (or should be) apparently true.