Blame It On Bud?

As the Incredible Shrinking Newspaper™© collapses upon itself like a stellar object becoming a black hole, we still manage to find something horrifying that illustrates so-called simplexity. "For want of a nail, yada yada..."

The United States, for instance, is on the verge of a potentially historic election, but it is the small shifts of fortune and accident that brought us to this pass. Of all the people blamed for the Iraq war and the failures of the Bush administration, the name of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig rarely comes up. But maybe it should. Selig has held his job since 1992, but for several years he was technically the acting commissioner, a team owner merely caretaking the job while searching for a permanent replacement. George W. Bush, then part-owner of the Texas Rangers, was candid about his interest in the position. Selig dithered, Bush gave up and soon decided that politics might be a good alternative career.

So if that old fool of a car dealer from Milwaukee had made up his mind, one way or another, we might not have had to suffer through the Worst Presidency Ever™, thousands of Americans might be alive or not permanently damaged, as well as hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, & the steroids mess in beisbol might have been avoided as well. Shit. Fuck you, Bud Selig!! Elements of Style©: Another noun turned into a fucking verb. "Caretaking" our ass.