A 4th of July Admonition and Admiration

Shame on you, dear reader. Shame on you for letting me go so long without posting. I've been neglectful in by blogging duties of late and your silence in this regard makes you complicit. Please, let's get it together. All of us.

In other news, all is now right with the world as Takeru Kobayashi has been dethroned as hot-dog eating champion of the world by one Joey Chestnut of San Jose earlier today, proving once again that sometimes it just takes a Californian. Kobayashi showed his true colors last month when he claimed arthritis of the jaw had set in and he would likely not eat competitively again, coincidentally, just days after Chestnut had broken Kobayashi's record 53.5 hot dogs in 12 minutes by eating an unbelievable 59 earlier in June (a record he broke again today by taking down 66!). Despite beating the record, there was some speculation that Chestnut might fold in the head-to-head matchup. Of course, that all turned out to be nonsense, as Joey C. proved yet again that he is the greatest eater of this, or any other, generation. Just look at the nonchalance on the face of this beast, he could eat another dozen and not break a sweat. Goodbye and good riddance to the Kobayashi legend. The American re-ascension continues; say it with me now: U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!