Link: http://www.ericbischoff.com/categoryblog/102-facts-hurt

I saw this blog (link above) on Eric Bischoff’s official Website recently after reading an article about it on http://wrestlezone.com. In this little rant, Bischoff trashes Vince McMahon for claiming that WWE had a bad quarter financially due to the loss of older, established stars. The wrestlers in question being Undertaker, Triple H (both dealing with injuries), Batista and Shawn Michaels (both retired). He makes a point of mentioning that all of these guys are over 40 years old. He faults McMahon for pushing younger talent, stating that television audiences relate to established stars.

He then proceeds to go on a tirade about the Internet wrestling community, calling those within its ranks, “perpetually pre-pubescent, parasitic internet ‘experts’ who neither have any legitimate experience or success as executives in the television or wrestling industry…terminally irrelevant trying desperately to hold on to their last 200 fans.” He calls these tirades, “facts.”

He then goes on to praise Vince Russo, Dixie Carter and the rest of the TNA Wrestling staff for properly utilizing older, established talent to put over the younger guys. I refuse to go into any further detail on my thoughts about TNA Wrestling’s use of older talent. Anyone who comes to this site with any frequency knows my thoughts on that already. If you have not heard these thoughts, check out some of my previous videos on TNA or go to http://wrestlewrestle.com and hear The Spoony One’s take on it. His thoughts are fairly close to my own.

My problems with Mr. Bischoff’s rant come in the form of his rants on the Internet wrestling community and Vince McMahon. To make my position clear, I watch both WWE and TNA’s products. I believe myself to be pretty fair in pointing out what is good and bad about both shows. I am opinionated, but even-handed. This being said, Mr. Bischoff is being the prior, but not the latter here. He criticizes WWE and Vince McMahon for blaming a bad financial run and poor television ratings on the lack of older top stars. He says this when he himself states that this is what television audiences want. I am confused. Is it opposite day in land of Bischoff? You claim to use facts to criticize someone for using the same facts you used to make the same argument you made. How is this bad? Are you criticizing McMahon for the so called, “youth push?” You pointed out the loss of several top stars, the ranks have to be filled somehow. Basically, in summation, my point to you, Eric, is to ask what your point is. I ask because I seriously fail to see one. On a side note, I love how Bischoff trashes McMahon but still makes money from selling his book published under the WWE imprint right there on his sight. Classy.

In regards to the tirade against us “parasitic internet ‘experts,’” (By the way, Internet is supposed to be capitalized) if it were not for the same people you trash, TNA Wrestling would have failed seven years ago back when they ran weekly Pay-Per-Views out of the Asylum in Nashville. I would be careful who you direct that kind of venom toward, Mr. Bischoff. Continue to trash the Internet wrestling community and it could be you who ends up, “terminally irrelevant trying desperately to hold on to their last 200 fans.” You are not far off already.

Only in wrestling could behavior like this be permitted from an executive. In any other business, especially those involved in media, people get fired, demoted, or suspended for tirades like this. It is really quite funny, in a sad sort of way. Again, I watch TNA and honestly hope it succeeds. Many of my favorite wrestlers work there. People I actually used to work with from my days doing press releases for a local promotion work there. I want to see them be successful. In fact, I even greatly respect the creative contributions Mr. Bischoff has made to this business as I was one of those viewers that made the switch to WCW during that epic 84 week run atop the Monday night ratings back in the 90s. This is why stuff like this bothers me. People may take this griping. It is not. I honestly intend this to be seen as constructive criticism. Comments like those made by Mr. Bischoff tend to do little but anger people. It is counter-productive and simply comes across as bitter. I realize some may interpret my comments in the same way. I am a critic. This is what I do here http://dreadfulentertainment.com. Yes, Mr. Bischoff, controversy does create cash, on TV. Save it for the ring, and save comments like these private discussion. For when a public figure like yourself makes such a statement, there are always several critics whose responses are twice as inflammatory.

Well folks J.Freek here for another batch of PPV predictions, you might be wondering why I am not doing this in video form well the truth is I don't really feel like setting up the camera and taping a show so, I decided to just give my picks for each match for this Sundays Summer-Fest Whoops I mean Summerslam. Lets get to it.

WWE Champion Sheamus vs. Randy Orton
Winner:Sheamus
Reason: I just don't think its time for Sheamus to drop the belt, also I could see this feud going a few more monthes while Cena is feuding with Nexus.

World Heavyweight Champion Kane vs. Rey Mysterio
Winner: Kane
Reason: Kane just won the belt, and I think Undertaker will return soon to feud with Kane for the belt.Also, Rey Mysterio should never be World Champ again.

Team WWE vs. The Nexus (Elimination Tag Team Match)
Winner: Nexus
Reason: The Nexus will win it when someone off Team WWE turns on their team, My top 2 choices for who I think it may be are Bret Hart and John Morrison(Hey he is growing a beard now and we all know when a face starts to grow a beard it usually means he is going to be heel soon, just look at Batista) LOL

Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston
Winner: Dolph Ziggler
Reason: The man deserves it, and he just won it so it would be stupid for him to lose it so soon.

Big Show vs. The Straight Edge Society (3-on-1 Handicap Match)
Winner: S.E,S
Reason: I think Show will come close but in the end the number game will have a big effect on this match especially with Big Shows broken hand. I could see it end with some sort of hand submission.

Divas Champion Alicia Fox vs. Melina
Winner: Melina
Reason: I just hope they take the belt off Fox, but I might be wrong here as WWE seems to love Alicia Fox. Why??? I have no Idea what they see in her except her looks.

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(Sorry the post is a little late today. This is an article I submitted for the a gig as Zombie Examiner for Examiner.com. They said it needed to be more local)

Wednesday 13, the vocalist for The Murderdolls, loves zombies. The loves looking like a zombie. He loves singing about zombies. In these songs, he even professes a love affair with a zombie. It is easy to see that this guy is the music industry’s foremost expert on zombies.

Whether with The Murderdolls or on his own, Wednesday 13 has written a number of hits about zombies. “I Walked With a Zombie” tells of the singer’s kinship with the living dead. “She Was a Teenage Zombie” is a nice little romantic ditty if your name happened to be Charles Manson.

The guy’s gory chops do not stop at zombies however. He has also paid tribute to other horror monsters and icons. “Ghost of Vincent Price” is an excellent track that never grows old. He is also quite the fan of lycanthropes as evidenced by “American Werewolves in London.”

These tracks pack the punch of early Guns N’ Roses and have all of the B-movie bloodbath style of the Misfits. There is a lot to love and a lot to lose your lunch over here. If you love heavy metal, horror, zombies and bloodshed, Wednesday 13 and The Murderdolls are the bands for you.

The World Heavyweight Championship is a title that has so much history that the three discs it was given was just not enough especially since its been around since 1905. This DVD is great but could be better. The documentary was very good and informative. It talks about the title going back to the when the title was first brought in. It even talks about Flair bringing the title to WWF and them having the blur the title out. There are tons of matches on this set which include some pretty old matches that goes as far back as 1961 which means that there are a lot of years that they dont have matches for but that's probably due to that the matches weren't taped(especially the matches that happened back in 1905 LOL) and the fact that some of the older matches tape quality isn't all that good anymore because of old age. The first 2-discs matches include matches from NWA and WCW while disc 3 is WWE matches when they changed the titles name from the WCW World Title to just World Heavyweight title. Like I said the set includes a lot of great matches but it seems to skip over the years 2003 and 2005. I would of also liked to of seen the Randy Orton vs Chris Benoit match from Summerslam 2004 but because of obvious reason it was not included in the set. I would highly recommend this DVD to any long time wrestling fan because of the huge amount of matches from NWA/WCW. I would also recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the history of the title. I would give it a 4 out 5 stars. Like I said at the beginning with as much history as this title has it could have been more then 3-discs but still is a very good DVD.

Link: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5463266/common_morality_by_bernard_gert_essential.html?cat=4

In any credible profession, you will likely have to study ethics at some stage or another. When you read modern ethics, you're reading Gert's "Common Morality." Whether this is the actual book you're reading or not doesn't matter. This is the groundwork from which most modern ethics stems.

If you're reading something based on this framework, stop, put that book down, and pick this one up. So many academic texts get criticized for being over-complicated, taking essentially simple topics and turning them into epic diatribes. Another major name in ethical framework, John Stewart Mill, can definitely be accused of this (though to be fair, Mill wrote his work back when over-complication seemed necessary for scholarly work). Gert, however simply cannot be criticized in this way. This book is one of the most straight-forward, to-the-point, academic texts I have ever read. He puts his points out there clearly and makes them easy to grasp.

This book lays out a simple, easy to follow method for making an ethically informed decision in any circumstance you could come across. The simple for moral analysis put forth here is simple enough to be remembered well beyond your course of study and versatile enough to be applied to even the most extraordinary of circumstances. The ethical system espoused here is independent of any legal, religious, cultural or professional system and yet easily works within the ethical confines of any of them. That is the beauty of this book. While Utilitarianism as a moral system often gets confused with something almost fascist in nature (the good of the many, despite the fact that this was not at all what Mill meant), there is no chance for such confusion here.

As a grad student in Journalism at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, I actually had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Gert in a class lecture. He was brought in as a guest speaker in the media ethics class I attended. He is as nice and helpful of an individual as his text would make him out to be. He was willing to go out of his way to explain even the tiniest details in his work and engage in healthy conversation analyzing a number of hypothetical scenarios in order to show his work in action. I would not only recommend this book for any professional study of ethics, but would also deem it necessary reading for anyone. Everyone should evaluate their moral code at some point in their lives, just to make sure they are the kind of person they claim to be. This book will give you that answer.

When I first read about this DVD I was excited to see some of the stuff on it. One of the segments I was really hyped to see was the grocery store brawl between Austin and Booker T. I received the DVD in the mail and sat down to watch it and boy was I disappointed. None of the segments are whole, its just highlights with different WWE stars talking about them. The matches are whole though(There are some matches that are just clips like the Kurt Angle/Brock Lesnar Iron Man match, Eddie Guerrero vs John Cena Parking lot brawl, and some others)

The clips and full matches are done in a top 100 countdown style. Even though segments aren't whole, it is still a decent DVD though. I have to give this DVD 3 out 5 stars, Mostly because of the matches and some of the highlights they show are for segments and matches I totally forgot about(Like Tazz vs Triple H match) or, segments I enjoyed when I first saw them back in the day and it's fun to relive them. I recommend this DVD to wrestling fans but, I wouldn't spend more then $20 on it.

This is the webcomic from our old site, eternalfury.com. The site is long since closed but we salvaged these from the Internet Archive. Sadly, I don't have all of them here. About three of them are missing. They may be on an old computer, but I don't have time to check. This was done on an old webcam back in 2002, so the picture quality blows.

Check it out, the Mascadores crew has joined...well just about everything else on the Internet by being put on one of those bogus motivational posters.