We have so much information bombarding us these days it takes a sensational case with a celebrity to focus the public attention.  If you can remember how a "disease of some homosexual men" was whispered about for years.  It took Rock Hudson to bring the conversation into the public awareness.  Then, Paul-Michael Glasser's wife was stricken by AIDS via a blood transfusion and all of a sudden this was a disease that needed to be dealt with because it could infect anyone. 

Low-class, low-intelligence, bottom-feeders of society enjoy desensitizing tough dogs into readily attacking their own species.  The dogs are trained by teasing them into a frenzy with some of those free puppies and kittens some people set out in boxes at storefronts.  That is illegal in Kern County by the way.  Often, the first animal the dogs are teased into attacking is a raccoon hung in a sack.  After the dogs learn to enjoy ripping up a wild animal, they get to chomp on a kitten.  To make sure they have been trained out of all normal instincts to protect juveniles of their own species, they are then encouraged to tear up a puppy or two.  Gameness can be tested without harm to the potential fighter by pushing him (or her) to attack an adult dog, usually a stray or free-ad dog that has been muzzled so it cannot defend itself.  Some dogs cannot be trained to attack another dog with much enthusiasm.  Those are the pit bill terriers who most resemble the true breed character and they are also the ones who get executed.  Is this the worst crime ever?  No.  But I wouldn't want someone who thinks this is okay to live anywhere near my neighborhood.

The sports commentators are more worried about Vick turning on his team mates and the betting issue. 

I'm telling ya - only a very sick individual would torture an animal.  But the sports industry that diminishes the torture and worries over the betting and debates Vick snitching on his team mates .... they are just flat out stupid.  The sports commentators seem to have dismissed the main issue.  They embarrass me.

I donno about all of you, but I'm tired of hearing about Michael Vick.  It's obvious that dog fighting is likely more prevalent that anyone want's to think, but why is it that we only now hear about it? Nobody cares unless a national celebrity is caught, then all of a sudden its the worst crime ever...how pathetic.