Tag: DC

• The DOOM PATROL

  Tell me that’s not the coolest name ever for a team of weirdo superheroes!  I dare you.  I didn’t read comics a lot when I was a kid–because I spent all my time with my nose in books I wasn’t clever enough to realize were way too mature for my age–but I loved THE DOOM…

  JunkChuck

  July 16, 2014

  Uncategorized

  comics, DC, fantastic four, marvel, reluctant, silver surfer, superhero, the doom patrol, x-men, xavier

• On Dan Snyder, The Redskins, Free Speech and Flag Desecration

  Wow!  That’s a lot for one little article, eh?  A few weeks ago, I posted on my support of the effort to encourage Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins NFL football team, to change it’s name. A similar post planted elsewhere on the web stirred up a dialogue with a fellow I know from…

  JunkChuck

  March 2, 2014

  Commentary

  adult, bill of rights, bondage, burning, change, comic, constitution, crimson, D.C., dan, DC, demeaning, desecreation, ethnic, flag, football, freedom, hawk, hawks, heroine, indiana, insult, internet, iup, liberty, mascot, name, nfl, nickname, pennsylvania, redskins, slur, snyder, superhero, university, washington

• An Open Letter To Dan Snyder & The Redskins: Time To Rebrand

  Not so many years  ago, the NCAA forced my Alma Mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania–located in the town of Indiana, PA–to abandon it’s historic nickname, mascot, and iconography as “The IUP Indians.”  A lot of folks were resentful at the external pressure, a lot more were like me and just thought it was a big…

  JunkChuck

  February 3, 2014

  Commentary, Uncategorized

  adult, bondage, change, comic, crimson, D.C., dan, DC, demeaning, ethnic, football, hawk, hawks, heroine, indiana, insult, internet, iup, mascot, name, nfl, nickname, pennsylvania, redskins, slur, snyder, superhero, university, washington