I love the Michael Vick signing. Abso-fucking-lutely love it. AJ Feeley is a poor choice as a 3rd QB who will kill you with INTs. Vick will stink as a thrower in the Iggles pass-wacky O, but he doesn’t need to throw! He will run Wildcat, or provide awesome options when on the field with Westbrook, McCoy, Maclin, Jackson and Curtis. It will be criminal how much speed the Eagles will be able to line up on O. I also really really like the idea of finally taking some pressure off McNabb. I’m sick of hearing “Westbrook makes the Eagles offense go” cause it is just not true – McNabb is the guy throwing 60% of the time, scrambling to make plays. Give him a few plays off a game, and have defenses prepare for what is essentially a whole different offense with Vick, and you have a ridiculous set of matchup problems.

I’m glad Vick is back, and I’m glad it was with Philly. What he did is disgusting and evil, but he served his time. Isn’t 2 years and millions of dollars enough of a penalty? What happened to him was the best thing ever to happen for PETA and their ilk for raising awareness of animal cruelty. The 50 dogs he tortured are nothing compared to the thousands left to die by their shitbag chollo and redneck owners in the Valley every year, who daily mistreat dogs, leave em chained in the yard with no shade then abandon them to certain death at the pound. Is it so much worse than this that he should not have the opportunity to rebuild his life?

The hatred from all the Good People of America is really a backlash against all of these other sins against animals, which we can not do anything about.   Our inability as a “civilized nation” to stop animal cruelty reminds us how barely civilized we really are.   We can only just barely take care of ourselves, and our pets are disposable.   All the shortcomings in our economic system, health care, gun laws, drug laws that our stupid, dullard slack-jawed ways have enabled are scratched to the surface when we can’t save the fluffy Tsainas of the world.   Cancer took Tsaina in 3 months, we paid someone a couple hundreds to put her down in the comfort of her own couch.   And I love dogs.

Hope you’ve been doing sprint workouts, Mike.