Where's the outrage?

This is what passes for ugly these days? Are you kidding me?


Behold Pabst, a boxer-mix shelter dog and the 2009 winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, held each year at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif.

Pabst belongs to Miles Egstad, 25, of Citrus Heights, Calif., who said after the win "I don’t think he’s that ugly," begging the question of why he entered him in a contest called the World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

My feelings on this "contest" are clear -- once Sam the Chinese Crested died in 2005, there was no point in continuing the event's once proud pageantry. I mean, just look into Sam's vacant stare, at right. Just a glance would scare Pabst into an overbite.