The big question mark.....

Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte.

In the most pressing question I have this summer. Where does this dude go in fantasy drafts this year?

Some people have this cat the NUMBER TWO overall pick!!!!

Having had an awesome rookie season, he was a JAGULAR surprise for dipshits that took him way too early in some drafts.

Having been in a keeper fantasy league for 16 years, and a "re-draft" league for 10, this dude here, really is perplexing to me.

The first knock on him is his skintone. lolololol.

(this would be the funny, un-pc, not serious part of the post.)

Most of the sickos in my keeper league stayed away from him because he didn't have the dark look we like. He seemed malatto, and NO ONE wastes a pick at running back when there's a chance of ANY WHITE BLOOD in him at all.

I veered away and took Chris Johnson in my keeper. The "proto-type", with 4.2 speed.

But alas, Forte fuckin crushed last year. And with the addition of Jay Cutler at quarterback, Forte could be poised to have a 2,000 yd season.

Yes, this post is gratuitous for Fantasy Football maniacs. They will get it. Everyone else, just wait for an upskirt of Lady Ga-ga, as gross as that sounds.

There is NOTHING better than fantasy football.

Forte will have a big year... I just don't know how big.

Attn: Ambulance chaser

Hello Al Sharpton. I'm Shane.
You are a fuckin bummer.

In what may have been a career started in the idea of service, the further and further you get from your idealistic youth, you become more and more ambitious. Which is fine. Unless of course you are using the principles of the ministry, or spirituality as your precipous for having a relevant opinion about something.

Ambition and spirituality DON'T mix. They just don't.

You use these two terms together to form the job title of ACTIVIST. Which, again, is disingenuous.

Activism, in the way that I define it, is centered in serving the whole, or the cause in which you believe in.

But more and more, your "activism" in something, seems to be predicated in how much media coverage is involved in any one issue.

It's a drag. And it makes your voice less pertinent. And turns you into a cartoon character.

You have done much good. FACT. But as you have watched other African-Americans knock you down in the "pecking order" of MOST VALUABLE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS, you seem to be hungrier and more focussed on "where you rank" instead of "what you can do to help".

You are dangerously close to the eye-roll and switching of the tv news channel territory that is held for special mediawhores like that fuckin beast Gloria Alred.

Take a breath....

Shane

Attn: America

It's a call to arms.

GM came outta bankruptcy today.

It's time for us to step up.

As we weed through the nastiest economic time in the last 80 years, we need to circle the wagons and "buy American". Period.

I know, I know.

We don't make cars as dope as foreign companies do.

But it don't matter.

Every car made here, is puttin hundreds, if not thousands of people in this country to work. Not just the cat makin the car.

It's the cat who makes the paint. The papa who makes the seat fabric. The papa who makes all the dumb knobs.

Cadillac is a pretty awesome car. They make amazing luxury rides. Are they Mercedes? No.

But when you pull up to dinner at the valet, I need to not be defined with, "look at this dudes car". I need to be defined by...

"Wow this dude drives an American car, because he is awake to the fact that America is in a recession, and by driving an American car, he is doing his part to spend money within the confines of our borders, to support getting people back to work".

FACT.

A word about life......

I've been strangely aware of my life this week and have done a lot of "reflecting", whatever that word means.

I have thought about the times I have been truly happy. And that has been a lot. And there seems to be one thing I can ascertain as FACT.

My happiness, as a person, has NOTHING to do with my CIRCUMSTANCE.

I have given blood to pay the rent. I have lived in my car. And have found happiness while that was happening.

I have made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and been so completely fuckin miserable that I thought I was gonna burst all over everyone around me like that green slimy ghost in Ghostbusters, and leave a trail of gooey pain, jealousy, anger and deep sadness wherever I went.

I have been freezing in my truck, without enough gas to keep it running so I could have the heat on, and been smiling ear to ear, inspired, and full of hope.

For me it comes down to one thing.....

Was I outta myself? Was I thinkin during those times, about how I could be effective to the people I love.

Was I tryin to TAKE from the table, or was I thinking about what I could GIVE to the table.

Today, I know this.....MORE THAN EVER.

THE ONLY THING I HAVE OF ANY VALUE, REALLY, IS MY LIFE EXPERIENCE.

Let's try and live full. Let's get angry. Let's be compassionate. Let's stand up for injustice. Let's learn that we don't know everything. Let's slow down when a we see the perfect small stuff.

I saw a little kid look up at his dad today with THAT look. That, "my DAD knows EVERYTHING, and he's the coolest" look.

There are moments like that EVERY DAY in my life that I routinely fuckin miss cause I'm busy thinkin about how something in my life is affecting poor ole ME.

So lame of me.

Life isn't about what's in the driveway, and how big the driveway is.

It's about who is in the house.

Tryin to wiggle thru and get outta me.....

Shane

Case in Point.....Al Sharpton

I wouldn't give this dude 450 dollars for a 1982 Suburu hatchback, let alone leave him in charge of my spiritual condition.

And it has NOTHING to do with his skintone..... I'm gettin after this guy tommorra.

Attn: John Duesler

Ahhhhh. John. I thought I was gonna make it through the day not pissed off. Thanks for clearing that up.

The white, tiny brained, ignorant, racist scumbag on the left is John Duesler. He runs a private swimming club that a day care center in the area rented out recently for a swim day once a week.

The kids above heard comments from club members asking why their were African-American kids at the pool.

The club then returned the check to the day care center and this fuckin piece of trash wrote this in the letter with the cheque...

"a lot of kids might change the "complexion" and atmosphere of the club".

I'm paraphrasing here but the intent seems to be clear. "We don't do black people".

Mr. Douchebag, it's time for you to crawl back under the Neolithic rock you preside under.

Dudes, like you there is no hope for. At all.

Racism is a learned disease of ignorance and fear. The deep South has had many generations of this type of ignorance, and as our beautiful BLACK Poppa LEADS ALL OF US, even the most racist pockets of that portion of the country seem to be more aware than you.

You live right outside of PHILADELPHIA. You have had a LOT MORE societal integration of colors in your life. You REALLY have no fuckin excuse.

I pray for your children. They are gonna need it.

I see those babies in that pic, and the idea that you or your club could make them uncomfortable in any way, purely based on their skintone, roots in the most volatile part of me.

God, It's Shane. It's just NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE that people like this dude exist.

I mean that.