Dog goD – Adam

America is rich...filthy rich...too rich.


22,000 children die every day from preventable causes. That's three times the population of Wauseon everyday.
Preventable deaths...
37.2% of American households own a dog.
Over 72 million dogs in American households.
$200 Veterinary expenditure per dog.
$14,422,800,000.00 per year goes to health care
...for dogs. I won't even go into any other pets you can do the math.
I'm not a fan of pets...

People think they own the animal when in all reality the animal owns you.
The “owner” gets up in the middle of the night to feed the “pet”
the owner takes the pet out for a walk whenever the pet wants
the owner buys food for it, buys worthless toys for it. Ect.
Meanwhile this creature never repays you and never thanks you
as far as that tiny little brain in it's head is concerned it is the owner and you obey it.

If you were dangling from a cliff to the left of the dog and I had a nice juicy steak to the right who do you think the dog will be faithful to? I don't care if you have been it's “master” for years I've got the steak that thing is my “pet” now.
Think about the life of an American dog from it's perspective:
“hmm I'm hungry if I bark my pet usually comes down stairs no matter what it is doing and puts food in this bowl for me”
“hmm I want to go outside if I just scratch the crap out of this door my pet will come and let me outside”
Don't give me all this “companionship” junk either if a dog wasn't cute you would hire an exterminator to wipe your house clean of it.
Three Wauseons worth of children are dying today meanwhile America has over 40,000 doctors for pets (and I understand some vets help livestock not just pets) but still 40,000!

dogs are perfectly capable of surviving on their own in the wilderness in fact all animals are and do everyday.

How about we kick all of these worthless selfish animals (I'm talking about pets) out of our homes and put that $14 Billion towards helping some children reach adulthood.
America is filthy rich

Getting Jimmered - Brian

It has been quite the layoff, but the Paper Work blog is back for business. And since I am writing this blog at the moment, you know that I am currently doing some business of my own. With that said, let's get to the blogging.

If you have a pulse (or at the very least have seen Sports Center over the last 4 months) then you would at least know Jimmer Fredette's name. He has become the iconic image of this season. His name has entered into the lexicon of sports lore, both as his name as a player, and as a verb, noun, adjective, and so forth. Opposing players can get "Jimmered." If you hit a deep three, you are pulling a "Jimmer." Shots can be described as "Jimmer" shots.

And this has happened for good reason. Jimmer is the clear favorite for national player of the year, averaging 28.3 PPG on 45% shooting while hitting a scorching 40% of his threes. He has scored 30+ points 16 times this season and put up an impressive 52 point game earlier this month.

All of this and people are crying out "NBA bust!"

They argue that he is not athletic enough. Not tall enough. Not fast enough. Can't play defense.

Which is all fine and good, but why are they saying this about Jimmer and not Kemba Walker? Walker put up slightly less impressive offensive numbers (23.9 PPG, 43% FG, 34% 3FG) and has mostly the same flaws. ESPN's Chad Ford pines that Walker is an "undersized, shoot-first point guard" and is "limited defensively."

Ford describes Jimmer as "undersized if he projects as a 2 in the NBA" and is "bad defensively." On the defensive end, Walker averaged 1.9 steals per game, with Jimmer checking in with 1.3 SPG. Not an enormous difference defensively. Jimmer also put up much better offensive stats that Kemba.

So why is Kemba projected as a guaranteed lottery pick and Jimmer as a late first rounder?

I'll tell you why - race.

Yep, we are going there. Jimmer is white. Kemba is black. Historically in the NBA, black athletes are much better than white athletes. By that standard, Kemba should hypothetically do better than Jimmer. And unfortunately that is how they are being projected by the experts.

Now I am not guaranteeing that Jimmer will be better than Kemba. But based on college stats (not to mention this was Kemba's first good season, and Jimmer's third good season), shouldn't Jimmer be the better prospect? They both have the same flaws - bad defensively, undersized - and have the same strengths - great overall scorers. The stats say that Jimmer is much better at this strength than Kemba is.

But if I were to put a black athlete and a white athlete in front of you and asked you which one you thought would be better at basketball, what would you say? And be honest. 99% of you would say the black athlete. That's just how it is in sports.

And whether or not it's true, shouldn't we focus on what we see in the games and what the stats say? All indications would point to Jimmer.

But this is isn't a gray area in sports.

It's pretty black and white.