GET OVER IT!

Welcome to the first edition of GET OVER IT! Here are three things that people need to get over and shut up about.

- Michael Phelps smoked pot. Was it wrong? Yes. Did he deserve the three-month suspension? Yes. But seriously, whoever took that picture of him deserves a punishment too. Douche. I'm not exactly a huge Phelps fan, but it's time for the media and anyone who is "outraged" over this to let it go. Phelps accomplished some amazing things. Considering that marijuana is not exactly a performance-enhancing drug, this does not take away from those accomplishments at all. And, while not condoning reefer, I've been to college. People smoking pot is not the end of the world (unless you're my college roommate, who was convinced he could get high from the smell of pot seeping in from outside the room, unless the windows were wide open. in the middle of winter). I can tolerate it if people are smoking pot. I can even come up with some good reasons why it should be legal (much longer post if I get into detail there). But the minute I see someone pull out some cocaine, I have the sudden urge to go far, far away. So, Phelps smoked pot, like an alarmingly high percentage of people his age have. He never claimed to be a perfect role model. He made a mistake. GET OVER IT!

- Alex Rodriguez did steroids. So did a lot of other baseball superstars over the last few decades. That doesn't make it right, but, sadly, that is the culture. Should that invalidate A-Rod's entire career and disqualify him from the Hall of Fame? Hell no! Maybe he would have had a few less home runs, but the overreaction to this is ridiculous. Crazed fans, Yankee haters, A-Rod haters, and even fellow MLB stars need to stop treating steroid use as if it were rejection of Christ. Why is this suddenly the unpardonable sin? Maybe A-Rod used it for three years. There's not evidence to the contrary. But to say all his stats should be gone? That anything he's done or will do in baseball is meaningless? Come on! Keep testing him for steroids, and if he keeps testing negative, this is a non-story. He will have proven that he can be the greatest in the game without steroids. He made a mistake. So did A LOT of other ballplayers. And I'm not even talking about football here. GET OVER IT!

- The stimulus is anti-Republican. It could have been better, but at least it's something. And really, it's not all that bad. And, at this point, we really needed this thing to get approved. There are times in history when we need to have more liberal economic views (a lot of what FDR and company did was necessary, for example, not socialism). I don't know how well this will work, but let's be honest here, it would be hard for it to work less than the failed policies of the last eight years. Sorry for sounding like an Obama PR machine, but come on... There's your number one reason why the Democrats have such large majorities right now. Or country is in the worst financial crisis since the great depression, and, so far, what Obama has done does not qualify as socialism, so GET OVER IT!