Why I will never support Michael Ignatieff

Because for the past two years, despite my repeated attempts to inform him I didn't wish any more of it, he has been sending me unsolicited email keeping me "abreast of his current activities". Does his crap email include an usub link? Yes it does. Does it have any effect whatsoever? It does not appear to. So, I have finally lost my patience with this weasel and his weaselly staff. He has been put firmly in my kill-file. And if he ever wants my political support, he's going to have to do some fancy dancing.

Spam-dispensing mustellid.

Bah.

Why I will never support Michael Ignatieff

Because for the past two years, despite my repeated attempts to inform him I didn't wish any more of it, he has been sending me unsolicited email keeping me "abreast of his current activities". Does his crap email include an usub link? Yes it does. Does it have any effect whatsoever? It does not appear to. So, I have finally lost my patience with this weasel and his weaselly staff. He has been put firmly in my kill-file. And if he ever wants my political support, he's going to have to do some fancy dancing.

Spam-dispensing mustellid.

Bah.

All-Star Ripoff

I can understand that given the choice between Calderon and Billups, well, sorry José, but you're going to stay home. But what really bugs me here is that two of the Eastern all-star starting roster come from teams with losing records (one from the second worst team in the league).

Please, people. The western voters made room for both Nash and Chris Paul in the reserves. Who did they include in the East? Billups, Joe Johnson and Rip Hamilton.

I have nothing against either Johnson or Hamilton; they're both excellent players. But if you look at the years that all the Eastern guards are having, I just don't understand how you put up Kidd, Wade, Billups, Johnson, and Hamilton, and you then claim that Calderon is the sixth-best guard in the East this year. WTF?

But what the heck; fan voting in the NBA all-star hoohah consistently rips off players with marginal "star appeal" and in marginal markets (and despite being the fourth largest metro area in North America, Toronto is still a marginal basketball market).

So, congratulations to Joe Johnson for making the team. But it still annoys me that Calderon wasn't selected. I can only hope that he builds on his skills next year, and shows the league they should have given him a holiday in New Orleans.

postscript: Also, given the year he's having, I'm not at all sure that Bargnani should have been invited into the Rookie game on the Sophomore squad, but I'm less up on the choices available at his position among sophomores. Maybe he really is still the pick of the litter there. Which doesn't say a tremendous amount for his draft class, really, given what he's accomplished this year.

All-Star Ripoff

I can understand that given the choice between Calderon and Billups, well, sorry José, but you're going to stay home. But what really bugs me here is that two of the Eastern all-star starting roster come from teams with losing records (one from the second worst team in the league).

Please, people. The western voters made room for both Nash and Chris Paul in the reserves. Who did they include in the East? Billups, Joe Johnson and Rip Hamilton.

I have nothing against either Johnson or Hamilton; they're both excellent players. But if you look at the years that all the Eastern guards are having, I just don't understand how you put up Kidd, Wade, Billups, Johnson, and Hamilton, and you then claim that Calderon is the sixth-best guard in the East this year. WTF?

But what the heck; fan voting in the NBA all-star hoohah consistently rips off players with marginal "star appeal" and in marginal markets (and despite being the fourth largest metro area in North America, Toronto is still a marginal basketball market).

So, congratulations to Joe Johnson for making the team. But it still annoys me that Calderon wasn't selected. I can only hope that he builds on his skills next year, and shows the league they should have given him a holiday in New Orleans.

postscript: Also, given the year he's having, I'm not at all sure that Bargnani should have been invited into the Rookie game on the Sophomore squad, but I'm less up on the choices available at his position among sophomores. Maybe he really is still the pick of the litter there. Which doesn't say a tremendous amount for his draft class, really, given what he's accomplished this year.