Michael Vick, One Bad Dog

There are certain people who shouldn't have certain jobs - no matter what. While Simon Cowell may be a great music impresario, I wouldn't put him in charge of a psych unit. While Pamela Anderson may be a great animal rights activist, I wouldn't put her in charge of an accounting firm, and while George Washington was a great commander-in-chief, I would't have put him in charge of a sewing circle. Meaning that some people aren't cut out for certain jobs. It's not in their nature.

The same with Michael Vick. He belongs with a dog like Ahmadinejad belongs on the planning committee of a JCC. How did I and most other sane people aboard the mother ship come to this conclusion? The way that most other people come to theirs, by past experience.

Vick's record of not only pitting animals against each other but of electrocuting, torturing then drowning them once they lost and fostering rapes of female pit bulls is too much to bear. And there is no way that anyone could do a 180-degree turn without having some electroshock treatment himself or a lobotomy, which Vick hasn't done. He probably hasn't even gone into therapy or counseling sessions to see what led him to brutalize creatures that were at a disadvantage to begin with.

Race may be the killer issue for some, but if Vick were white, Hispanic or anything else, those defending him would suggest that he buy a stuffed animal, if even that. I question whether he should be allowed to spawn children because it's frightening to think of what kind of a role model and what kind of a parent he would be.

If Michael Vick is not violent now, then he at least had violent tendencies well into his prime and after he should have known better, and no matter how much jail-time he served or what kind of an inmate he was, he should never be allowed to own so much as even a goldfish let alone man's best friend.