So I'm watching the opening matches of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and there's this weird constant buzzing sound coming through the stadium. At first, I thought it was the murmur of the excited crowd anticipating the kick-off of the South Africa-Mexico match, but it was stranger than that, actually. I've been to world football competitions before and never heard anything like this.

The closest thing I could describe was the din of groups of industrial fans, but this was no factory. Turns out it was the blaring of thousands of vuvuzelas, cheering the game on. This is one of the things that make me love this game that much more -- the fact that every host country gets to make their own cultural imprint.

With that said, there are lots of people griping about the darned thing as if it's that big of a deal, calling it an annoyance, saying it breaks their concentration from the game. I say they can shove it up their big fat Zulus!

First off, don't expect this post to include a bunch of one-liners about champion pro golfer Tiger Woods' Thanksgiving week collision near his Florida home. I'll be more sensitive than others who've spent the last week patting themselves on the back with their "expensive cars, hole in one" cracks.

No, I think I'll look at it from a sports/pop culture perspective. It seems as if every few years a megagazillionaire superstar athlete gets his mistress business put in the street through one transgression or another, and after the "I screwed up apology," we get the tabloid-style overdose of non-news about people who we only care about when they fly or when they crash.

Tiger is really the latest in a string of jocks who were celebrated just enough to become gods in our society. Big secret, though: we hate our gods just as much as we love them.

But what really tightens my jockstrap is when others, especially those whom Limbaugh is clearly inciting hatred for, actually start sucking up to this man. Sadly, this time it's Miami Dolphins star running back Eugene "Mercury" Morris. Here he is on CNN being an apologist (read: tap dancing in blackface) for Limbaugh's reported attempt to purchase the St. Louis Rams.



Aaron McGruder, can we add this sellout to your 'Boondocks' nomination list for this year's most embarassing black people?