So There

So the wife and Son and I were down at The Phone Booth, the MCI Center, Sunday night to watch the Georgetown-West Virginia basketball. A good time was NOT had by all, even just the three of us, for despite what looked "on paper" to be great seats -- three rows up from the floor section at one of the ends of the court -- the floor section turned out to be the G-Town student section, who stood the entire contest. Sweetie watched the vast majority of the game via the Jumbotron. I saw kids, students, from both schools with beer, and it escapes me how that can still happen, so out in the open these days, with MADD on the prowl and everything else. Let's face it...on this front, all but the hardcore Christian right has just given up on the subject of teenaged drinking. But that's really a whole separate blogpost thang there...

I can't help but get fired up at these affairs. I mean I just CAN'T. The ethose and pathos of competitive sports were the raisons d'etre of Otto's Family growing up. And I have seriously adopted the Mountaineers at this point. Having a cabin located in WV is one thing. Having one of your children attending the state university is a whole new level.

So when the Hoya students, all of ten feet or so away from us, started the chant of "We're Not Inbred" during the game, the fire got stoked. It was sweet justice when the blue and gold ran their offense during crunch time, displaying the control that comes from a senior-heavy team and NCAA tourney experience, and walked off the floor with a thirteen point victory. So let me just say for the record, to all of the GU students and K Street lawyer alumni and everybody else who shares the "WV inbred" view:

-- Marion Barry was the mayor of DC for like a zillion years, and you damn well know he'd be elected AGAIN this year if he ran...and you're actually PROUD of this POS city called DC?

-- If this country got invaded, where would YOU rather be -- in some DC office building or out in the WV woods?

-- If this country got invaded, who would YOU rather be with -- a DC lawyer or a WV grocery store clerk?

-- What's the crime rate per capita in DC versus WV? Look it up, you morons.

-- Do appearances REALLY mean that much to you, you beautiful people with your three figure haircuts and five figure wardrobes and seven figure houses? You guys preach to us all day long through the WaPo and the education system run right here in DC, about being non-judgmental and all such bullshite, and then take one look at an average West Virginian and think "inbred." You hypocrites.

The unofficial state motto of West Virginia is "Almost Heaven." I can tell you, from having lived here in a suburb of the Nation's Capital for twenty years, that this place is Almost Hell. I'm outta here like an Alberta Clipper in seven years, when our retirement finances are in good order, and to hell with y'all. Eff DC. Eff Georgetown. The pretensions of this place are Almost Unbearable.

So there.