Hit By a Pitch

So everybody is talking about what Don Imus said about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I feel like I should write something about it even though, frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass what some ugly old dude who has no relevance to my life has to say about anything.

I’ve never listened to Don Imus. I never will. I have no idea what his deal is, nor do I care. Yes, it sucks that he said things that were, at best, racially insensitive and disrespectful to women. But who cares?

The best way to deal with assholes who do or say stupid things is to ignore them. I don’t care what Don Imus thinks of some college basketball players. I don’t care what Tim Hardaway thinks about gay people. I don’t see the point of getting all up in arms about this sort of thing — nobody is going to change the mind of an asshole or the people who agree with him, and drawing attention to it again and again isn’t going to help, either. If we let guys like this make fools of themselves and don’t make a big deal of it, eventually they’ll become extinct like the dinosaurs they are.

So from now on, unless someone is an asshole in a noteworthy or amusing way, I won’t comment on it here.