Tag: insult

• I H8 National Haiku Month

  One reason to dread February: “National Haiku Month” and the abominations committed against this ancient form by well-meaning syllable-counters too presumptive and lazy to get it right or even give a shit. While it may seem petty to ponder this subject as the world burns around us, “haiku” stripped of its technical and thematic elements…

  JunkChuck

  February 2, 2017

  Commentary, Uncategorized

  abomination, hack, haiku, haikufebruary, insult, national haiku month, senryu, stoppleasestop, travesty

• 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