Late Mid-October Thoughts

The Giants were favoured by 3 points against the Bills last Sunday and they won by 3 points. Generally, home-field is said to be worth 3 points to the bookmakers, so I like to think that we would have tied on a neutral field.

Home-field advantage helped determine the 3-point margin of victory. On the Bills last-ditch drive, crowd noise caused the Bills to get a five-yard penalty for a false start and the Bills ended up falling five yards short of moving the chains on that set of downs.

I’m starting to think that maybe Ryan Fitzpatrick is not an elite starting QB in the NFL. He's not direct-snap-to-the-groin-bad, but he's not going to win the Super Bowl with a defense that gives up over 400 yards every game either. If he can get us to the playoffs I will be happy.

Why do we question whether a remake of a movie is “necessary”? Why not question if it is good? No movie is “necessary” in any sense of that word because entertainment is never about need. Entertainment is about being entertaining and if people enjoy the movie then it does not matter if it is a remake or an original.

As far as protest movements go, I like Occupy Wall Street. It is criticized for having a muddled message, but I believe their message is, “There is too much wealth disparity in America.” I like that message because I think it is true and I would support taxes that helped to redistribute wealth in the country, preferably through services like health care and social security.

That said (and here comes the criticism), I’d like to see a graph illustrating the wealth disparity between the bottom 99% in America and the average Bangladeshi or Liberian because complaining about being relatively poor in America is like being a 6’10’’ center in the NBA and complaining about being relatively short for your position – the rest of the world might think you’re being a bit of a whiner.

It says a lot about Canada that the major angle on the new Supreme Court justices is whether they are bilingual. In the States you would expect to hear whether they are conservative or liberal and what their views are on Roe v. Wade, but in Canada we just want to know if they can speak French.