Weird stuff

People will do anything. I guess this is one way to raise money:

With fans scrambling to obtain tickets to Saturday's Michigan-Ohio State football game, a couple is auctioning off their seats to raise money to adopt a boy from Guatemala...They have put the two tickets up for sale on eBay, hoping the payout helps defray the $12,500 cost to begin processing their adoption paperwork. They set the minimum bid at $1,000, with an option to purchase the tickets directly for $1,500. No bids had been made as of early Tuesday.

Most people would say that's really wonderful that the couple is adopting a boy from Guatemala. It is, no doubt about that. But if you can't afford $30,000 for adoption and have to resort to selling hot game tickets on eBay, should you really be thinking about adoption at this time? Nothing wrong with selling the tickets and getting good money for them (better than the $20,000 request I heard for a pair), but calling the papers to publicize your story so you can get your tickets sold seems cheesy to me. What if they're lying, like that woman who claimed she was having sextuplets and accepted all those free gifts? (I still don't know how she thought she was going to get away with that one.) I hate to be cynical, but that's the state of things these days because of losers like that.

"It's just one day, one game, compared to changing this little boy's life with us," Kristie Sigler said.

Oh, barf. I wonder how the AP reporter didn't laugh in her face after she spouted off that feel-good crap.

As noted by the Houston Chronicle's Ken Hoffman:

After Texans quarterback David Carr was injured Sunday, CBS announcer Rich Gannon said: "That's Superman right there- hopefully he hasn't run out of his nine lives."
Huh?

No kidding. When did Superman become a cat? And when did David Carr become a cat or Superman, for that matter?