Today's rant: sports tickets

I have reached the point where I cannot, unfortunately, justify spending the cost of admission to see a sports event.  Let me give you a side-by-side comparison.  In 2023, I saw Lewis Black perform in Vancouver.  It cost me $80 for a front row ticket, $10 to park, $25 for dinner, and gas.  In 2024, I considered going up to Vancouver for Survivor Series.  I decided not to go because it would have cost $145 for a nosebleed seat, and I didn't even bother calculating the cost of transportation.  What the fuck, WWE?  It used to be cheap to see a professional wrestling show.  How in the blue hell did it become cheaper to see a Broadway show than a professional wrestling pay-per-view-premium-live-event PPVPLE?  I cannot even see my New York Mets or New York Giants when they come to town because it costs so fucking much.

If you want entertainment, go to a theater production.  It's cheaper and you will get as much entertainment.  

Today’s rant: thoughts and prayers part 2

Let’s make something perfectly clear:  the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution is not anybody’s “God-given right,” and to suggest otherwise is pure insanity.  Instead of acting like a retarded alt-right troll, let’s actually think about it for a minute. Around the time the Constitution was ratified, there were about 800 million to 1 billion people on the planet.  So why would God choose a measly 25 million people to endow through the writing ability of James Madison the right to a keep and bear arms and form a well armed militia on an inexperienced group of angry white men with daddy issues?  Why them and not anyone else?  I’ll tell you why:  we made it up.  I never read the Bible, but I dare you to find any religious text pre-1000AD that says guns are A-OK by your deity’s standards.  You won’t find it.

Ok, so here is the usual spiel:  political assassination is wrong.  That being said… fuck 'em.  I don’t care that Charlie Kirk is dead. 🖕Thoughts and prayers, fuckface. 🖕 In fact, when I first found out he was shot before they announced his death, my first thought was “I hope he dies,” specifically because I was sick and tired of seeing his advertisements on YouTube.  My second thought was “Hey Trump, liberals’ aim is improving.”  Keep in mind, as of the time I am typing this, no one has been arrested or named as a person of interest, so I have no ideas about any possible motive.  I can infer A LOT, but I am not positive.  Let’s face it, I’m probably a horrible person for these thoughts to go through my head, but I am not unbiased.

They’ll probably catch the person within 3 days. I’ll be very surprised if the don’t catch anyone within a week.