Rant 2,250: We Gotta All Get Together

Hello. I am back!

I simply slept late(r) yesterday, because my son and I went to the WWE Evolution pay-per-view event at Nassau Coliseum on Sunday night.

The show was a good one, but the purpose was overstated.

The show was hyped as the first pay-per-view event entirely devoted to women wrestlers, but it was actually the first WWE pay-per-view devoted to the female side of the sport. Impact Wrestling and other wrestling groups have been doing these shows for years, but I guess if WWE does it, it is newsworthy.

The show featured some good matches, some lame matches, pretty much what you would suspect from a typical WWE show, but let's be honest about it, this had absolutely nothing to do with the empowerment of women as WWE would want you to believe. It had to do with marketing--yes, the women were still in pretty slinky costumes and they still were overly made up with false eyelashes too, so how could it be anything but--and I think it served its purpose.

Although the show ended around 10:30 p.m., and we were home before 11 p.m., I simply wanted to sleep after a rough week and busy weekend, so for the first time since I have been doing this column, I slept a little longer that night--rather than get up at 3:30 a.m. like I normally do, I got up at about 4:45 a.m.

So I didn't really sleep that late, but it was late for me.

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for winning the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Yes, I kind of sat out this one, because I cannot root for either team, but let's be honest about it, the Red Sox were the best team during the 2018 season, they beat two 100-win teams to get to championship series--the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros, last year's champs--and then they took apart the Dodgers, a team that was probably the sixth or seventh best team in baseball, but the National League representative nonetheless.

And then there are the two stories I am trying to avoid, but not doing a very good job at doing, the letter bomb case and the synagogue massacre.

Let's talk about the former first.

Another deranged individual feels that he must target innocent people because of their political beliefs, and he sent chills up this country's spines for about 10 days--and the packages are still in circulation even though he was caught.

Look, I don't agree with the politics spewed forth by his targets, but they do not deserve to be bombed because they believe what they believe.

Let's hope that if this individual is convicted of his crimes, he will be put away for the rest of his life.

And then we have the shooter in the synagogue massacre, another depraved individual who took it upon himself to rid the world of Jews, who he felt were pariahs and for whatever reason, were the group that was ruining not only his life, but our country, too.

So like the sick depravity shown by the church shooter just a few years back, the latest coward goes to a house of worship and decides that he will be the one to remove people from the face of the earth, simply because of how they worship.

He did what he did, but he was captured too, which might be the only good thing to come out of this whole heinous episode.

Perhaps they can pick his brain and find out what set him off, and perhaps that can be valuable information to prevent the next coward from doing such an act anywhere else, whether church, synagogue or anywhere.

If convicted, the death penalty awaits, and actually, that is too good for this sorry excuse for a human being.

There really isn't much more to say about these two pieces of human excrement, but life must go on, and it has and will.

And then again, I read now that there was another school shooting revolving around bullying, and this type of senseless violence appears to have no end.

We celebrate things like the World Series and Evolution while we shake out heads about these letter bombs and the synagogue massacre and the latest school shooting.

Nobody ever said that life was easy, but nobody ever had to experience such extremes as we have had to do as a civilization in recent times.

I think the time has come to get together, celebrate who we are, and stop the rhetoric from all sides, which is becoming oh so boring.

Let's stop blaming people who are not to blame, but let's put a clamp on those who just don't know when to stop.

As the old song said, "We Gotta All Get Together," and it starts NOW.