USA Today reports:

On Monday, Vick will become a free man as he completes a two-month home confinement that followed about 18 months behind bars, most of that period at the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan. The electronic monitoring device Vick has worn since returning to his home in Hampton, Va., will be removed, and the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback once considered one of pro football's most exciting players will be legally cleared to resume his career after being out of the game for two seasons, suspended indefinitely.

For the NFL — namely commissioner Roger Goodell— the main question is this: Does Vick, a former Pro Bowler, deserve a second chance in the league? The underlying question: Is Vick — who pleaded guilty to taking part in an operation that used pit bulls for fighting and executed dogs who didn't measure up — really a changed man?

It is easier to find a needle in a haystack than to find a dog lover in America who has the power or ability to forgive Vick. Their hate for this man is bottomless because their love for these domesticated animals is bottomless. But as Chris Rock pointed out, who is actually worse: Palin or Vick?

From Salon.com:

Wildlife activists thought they had seen the worst in 2003 when Frank Murkowski, then the Republican governor of Alaska, signed a bill ramping up state programs to gun down wild wolves from airplanes, inviting average citizens to participate. Wolves, Murkowski believed, were clearly better than humans at killing elk and moose, and humans needed to even the playing field.

But that was before Sarah Palin took Murkowski's job at the end of 2006. She went one step, or paw, further. Palin didn't think Alaskans should be allowed to chase wolves from aircraft and shoot them — they should be encouraged to do so. Palin's administration put a bounty on wolves' heads, or to be more precise, on their mitts.

In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Ruling that the Palin administration didn't have the authority to offer payments, a state judge quickly put a halt to them but not to the shooting of wolves from aircraft.

How is this any better than running a dogfighting operation? What is the real difference? In actuality, in the terms of flesh and bone, there is none. And yet Palin (stupid Palin) is running for president and Vick (stupid Vick) is walking out of prison.