Tag: washington
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At Least Choose Better Lies
For a guy whose obsession with “the best” and “the greatest,” President Donald Trump demonstrates a shockingly poor sense of selectivity when it comes to bald-faced lies. It would be easy to dismiss his behavior as compulsive or reactionary, off-the-cuff denials and distractions wrought by an egocentric blowhard, but this latest in a long line…
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Random Photo Found via Google Search 7
Random photos from the internet to you, via me. About these posts and the photos in ’em: http://wp.me/p3AOvB-FN
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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…
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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…
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The Guv’mint Shutdown, Maureen Dowd, and Zombie Washington
First off, the disclaimer: it is my intention to steer clear of politics as much as possible. My personal platform lies well outside the standard corruptions of the 2-party system, and nobody really cares what I think, anyway. But enough is enough. My friend Amy sent me a link to a must-read Maureen Dowd column,…