Shoot First -- Now Ask Questions

OK.  I'm not a lawyer.  I'm not a cop.  A gun owner, a parent, a district attorney, or a neighborhood watch guy.  I'm just a fictional bus driver. (Unless you're currently on the ShortBus, in which case, I'm just kidding.  Same time tomorrow.)

So while I'm certainly not an expert on law enforcement, I do watch the news.  And the worry du jour for the last couple years has been:  The right number of teams for the College Football Playoff.  Well, and also police shootings.

The Internet and the news and social media and the talk shows -- they've all been flooded with stories of the big bad policeman shooting down the unarmed in cold blood... or incompetence, or just stupidity.  And it's a problem.  I won't deny that.  It needs to be addressed.  But I do think that sometimes people get swept up in a frenzy and forget to see the forest for the trees.  Dateline:  Cleveland.

Crewsing for a Bruising

Well, it's been two days, and I still want to hang myself from a shower rod.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge sports fan.  What my favorite sport or what my favorite team is depends on what time of year you ask me.

But I can say without hesitation that for the last decade-plus, my biggest sports obsession has been my hometown Columbus Crew SC.