Tag: controversy
-
Colin Kaepernick Castigated For Free Speech
Seems like I’m writing about jocks a lot of late, but what’s a guy to do? Colin Kaepernick, the once beloved, now beleaguered quarterback from the San Francisco 49ers, hit the news with a big old bang by sitting out the national anthem before his premier appearance in a pre-season nfl game last night. When…
-
Michael Vick Furor + I H8 Change.org
So, my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers went out and signed pariah quarterback Michael Vick as what is likely to be a short term fill-in as a backup. Predictably, a few dim, narrow corridors in the social media maze have gone ablaze with fury fired so hot that it quickly consumed all available oxygen, which resulted in…
-
The Great Carols Conflict
This post appears out of order–it should have hit the net before the last post, but I’m apparently not clever enough to handle complex things like calendars. I trust that you all are smart enough to figure it out, so here you go My wife has a little less Christmas spirit than I do. More…
-
Olympics Volume 2–Meryl Takes Down Downton
It was Sunday night, the sofa was soft, the down comforter warm, and the sun was shining on Downton Abbey–it’s always shining on the glacially slow BBC soap opera, you might have noticed, despite what I’ve heard about England, yet it was brighter still inside the ice arena in Sochi, Russia where the world’s finest…
Old Road Apples 