Tag: ferguson
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That Was Then, This Is Now.
With apologies to the band Soft Cell, and the writer S. E. Hinton, who ruined reading for roughly half the middle-school aged children in America with her nausea-inducing drivel, but still doesn’t deserve this. Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away I’ve got to get away From the pain you drive into the heart…
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NFL Players Salute Ferguson–Cops’ Turn To Protest
Good For Them It’s encouraging to see athletes stand up, show leadership, and express connection to the communities that support them. I take exception to the old “I’m not a role model” stance of celebrities, particularly athletes, as expressed by Charles Barkley so many years ago. When these performers accept millions upon millions of dollars…
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D.A.H.O.F. Enshrines Kevin Sorbo
Hercules was half god. Kevin Sorbo, the actor who famously played him for years on syndicated television, is not half god–he’s half mortal. The rest is all dumb ass, and in recognition for this he is the latest candidate to earn a place in the storied Dumb Ass Hall of Fame. A vocal self-proclaimed conservative,…
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Some Late Thoughts on Ferguson, Missouri
I have been as appalled as anyone by the events in Ferguson, Missouri–from the killing that precipitated it, through the (literally) jack-booted thuggery of the local bureaucracy’s bumbling, violent attempts to suppress the inevitable reactions, the stumbling efforts to hide their conduct from the media, to the equally inept machinations to spin the story into…
Old Road Apples 