God de Sade?

I occasionally like to remark that God is a black, Jewish, pro-choice lesbian. It's a joke that is designed to irk...well, white, non-Jewish, anti-choice heterosexual men, or at least the right-wing nutjob portion of that particular demographic. Today I got a reminder of another remark I like to make about God, and while this one is also a joke, I think there may be a grain of truth to it: God has to be either incompetent or extremely sadistic to allow so many innocent people to suffer so greatly.

Natural disasters are one thing, but what about child-molesting clergy? Greedy politicians whose positions favor the wealthy? And so many others? They cause so much pain to so many -- especially the politicians, whose actions affect so many more people -- yet God doesn't smite nearly enough of them. Hardly any, really. Don't you think a bolt of lightning striking down one or two of these creeps live on national television would send a message to the rest that they'd better clean up their act?

What reminded me of this thought today was, as you might expect, Twitter. And the National Football League.

The T.O. Show: FAIL

First he had to sign with the Bills because no other team wanted him. Now, it seems that "The T.O. Show," the VH1 "reality" crapfest starring the NFL's biggest diva, Terrell Owens, isn't exactly a ratings hit. According to the Sports Business Journal, the show "wound up tied for the 798th-highest-rated cable show of the week with, among others, a 5 a.m. airing of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' on Nick at Nite."

More people want to watch a sitcom starring Will Smith before he became the biggest movie star on the planet -- at 5 in the morning, no less -- than want to sit and watch the infamous T.O. throw another quarterback under the bus, or whatever it is he's doing on the show.

Can't wait for that episode in which lake-effect snow buries Buffalo and he can't get out of his house. Oh, the hilarity!