Forbin's Militia

I love football. And I love the Cincinnati Bengals -regardless of their futility. Sundays in the Fall are for football, and there is no doubt about that. But today, the Bengals did not play, because they had already been summarily dismissed by the Squeelers earlier this week. Therefore, my Sunday was free to pursue other interests. This morning, I played disc golf with a bunch of my friends on a gorgeous, crisp November day. I then got to watch a bunch of proficient football, including the Tennessee Titans losing their first game . I even got a taste of the 'other' football when I watched the Columbus Crew win the MLS title . Later on, my buddy Hans introduced me to an intriguing, and potentially addictive German board game called Carcassonne . When I finally got home, I enjoyed the Xavier Musketeer's upset of #12 Memphis in the Puerto Rico Shootout. After seeing UC's victory over Pitt last night , a win that will potentially in the Orange Bowl, it's nice to see ...

Chad just said this on an NFL Network interview when questioned by Steve Mariuchi as to the long-term prognosis of his career beyond this abysmal season. I give 85 props for being political. What he means is that as long as the Bengals do as they do-and as long as he himself is a Bengal-he will not be all he can be. Chad is the kind of player who definitely needs positivity and proficiency in order to operate at his full potential. When things go awry, he's not exactly the stalwart veteran leader. He's more like a pouty 8 year old. Unfortunately, if you're a Bengal-things go awry more often than not. The problem is that Chad-like many of us-was sucked into believing. He arrived in Cincy at the tail end of Bengal Dark Age. He saw potential, and he saw the passion of the fans. He knew that this team's situation could only improve-and he wanted to be a part of it. Once Marvin and Carson came to town-hailed as messiahs-he had no doubt that by 2009, he'd have played i...

Today our next president visited the White House and met with our current president. Without the cavalier nature of the latter-the former would not have won the election-much less by such a landslide. Still, when I see pics like this my conspiratorial imagination really starts to wander. Could our entire nation-especially our political system-be controlled and guided by some grand entity that pulls the strings on everything? Was it necessary to let a Skull and Bones redneck do the dirty work and squander our moral ascendancy for 8 years just so that his polar opposite could win overwhelming public support and be handed the reigns as two unpopular wars drag on, and the economy slides ever-deeper into a recession? When McCain gave his gracious concession speech , it seemed as if he never had any illusions of winning in the first place. The tapping of the pig in lipstick as VP pretty much sealed the deal, to an extent that it almost seemed orchestrated. In my limited study of Illumanat...

It wasn't even close. No hanging chads, shady tabulations, or voting irregularities. Nope-it was a blowout. The last election in some time that was not even close, much less questionable or aided by a 3rd party candidate. Barack Hussein Obama, the goofy looking dude with the big ears and the funny name was elected president by way of popular support that I have not seen in my lifetime. The fact that this was the same country who elected George W. Bush twice over the past decade is nothing short of amazing after seeing yesterday's outpouring. It seems though, that the country has changed a lot over these last 4 years. Americans were sick of most aspects of the Bush administration, to the point that it was no longer necessary to look over my shoulder at the office when questioning The Decider. To see the throngs at Grant Park last night was the ultimate dose of Everything Happens for a Reason. At that moment, the last 8 years all of a sudden didn't seem so bad.

Well, the big day is finally here. It seems like it couldn't come soon enough. For some reason though, I've felt very calm and more optimistic than 4 years ago. I don't feel consumed with the anger, spite, and frustration that I felt when the Monkey Boy was elected for a second term. My overall feeling at that time was, "How on Earth could America re-elect this moron, continue this war, and further destroy the world-wide reputation of our nation?!?!" Well-we did, and we got what we asked for. My confidence in the American public took a major hit that day. Fortunately, these last few years have shown that with every action, there is a re-action. There is no way that we would be about to elect a black president with an Arab sounding name had it not been for GW. I suppose it restores a little bit of faith in the system and the natural ebb and flow of things. If Obama wins, it will be the neocons' turn to hate life for a while. We screamed fascism, they scream com...