I’ve been back from Miami for a day, but am busy as hell working and trying to put together lists for the two fantasy football drafts I’ll have over the next few days. Expect copious entries beginning Thursday.
And oh yeah, I rode a Segway while in Miami Beach. Awesome. Just awesome.
Not Dubya, but his daddy.
Unlike the 1998/1999 Minnesota Vikings, I’m going to Miami.
Unlike the 2003/2004 Florida Gators, I’m not going to let any Hurricanes ruin my time there.
Stay tuned until Monday for a bunch of outdated posts!
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran their biannual article about my hometown that asks, “why are there so many Jewish celebrities from St. Louis Park?” Last time, most people interviewed thought the answer was the creosote in the water. This time, it appears to be a close-knit religious community.
Either way, as long as I’m a gentile, it doesn’t look like my name will ever be in lights.
Special congratulations to Mim Kagol, my (and Steve’s) high school journalism teacher for getting both quoted and thanked in the story.
No, not that Batgirl.
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You can say “Redskin” on ESPN all you want, but you can’t spell it.
It’s too bad a game has to have its rules changed just so it can be shown on TV. I mean, that would be like stopping basketball games randomly every ten minutes, just to show a few commer–wait a second…
My real question in all this is, of course, what former ESPN football “analyst” Rush Limbaugh would have to say. Is it ok embrace playing the word “lez” (short for lesbians) without actually supporting rights for them? Or, perhaps, does the media just want people like Michele Van Gorp to succeed, just because they’re lesbians?
Michael Savage, on gays:
When you hear ‘human rights,’ think gays. When you hear ‘human rights,’ think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. … When you hear ‘human rights,’ think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him. Write that down, make a note of it.
(via Wonkette via Media Matters)
Alan Keyes may be moving from Maryland (where he lives and has lost bids for a senate seat) to Illinois, where he has never lived, but hopes to win a senate seat. There are a couple of problems with this. First, he’s going up against Barack Obama, who received more of a “convention bounce” than anyone. Second, here’s a quote of his from 2000 regarding Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate run:
“I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn’t imitate it.”
Note that Clinton moved to New York over a year before the election–Keyes has three months.
The other interesting angle on this story is how, if Keyes decides to run, the media will be flooded with stories about the two “eloquent” and “well-spoken” black men running against each other. Because, you know, most black men sound like Chewbacca.
The image of this painting (Saturn Devouring His Son) has stuck with me since I saw it in a Madrid art museum four years ago. But I think this photoshopped version may possibly be even more disturbing.
They grow some smart criminals in Davenport, Iowa (a place I’ve actually visited). The robbers in question waited until not one, but two presidential candidates were stretching the city’s police force thin before burglarizing three banks!
