Stupid Bowl XLI

What can one say about the Super Bowl that doesn't instantly lapse into parody? Never in the history of the world was there anything so over-hyped and over-bloated that commanded the rapt attention of millions of people, not just for a few hours on a winter Sunday afternoon, but for weeks leading up to it. Millions of people, who care what happens, and don't understand that they've been conned into caring about.... well, nothing. Just the fact that the hucksters have got millions of people slathering about the advertising is hysterical, millions of people who spend big bucks on Tivos so the rest of the year they don't have to watch commercials. Are we sick, or what? A second-rate lounge act has a nonosecond, hard-to-see "costume malfunction" and it winds up being debated in Congress while kids go hungry and elderly suffer without health care. And meanwhile they show over and over an ad that condones an office full of morons getting totally, destructively wasted on the sponsor's beer. I guess that's okay for the nation's children to watch. If we want proof that as a country we have a short memory, look no further than the fact that year after year, despite all evidence to the contrary, we buy into the big lies that politicians tell the truth when they make campaign promises, and the Super Bowl is going to be the most exciing game of the year.