Apparently, Thursday was a painfully slow sports news day. Otherwise, I can’t explain how an article titled ‘Lebron not ruling out return to Cavaliers’ pops up into my news feed, thanks to the AP. Continue reading
Knight of the Burning River
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In the midst of a seemingly endless primary season, one of the more interesting subtexts of each state’s GOP primary is the fundraising boost the winner has received in the immediate aftermath of their victory. Moon Pilgrim Newt Gingrich saw it after his South Carolina victory in January, and, on the heels of a three state sweep on Tuesday, Rick Santorum felt the sweet embrace of conservative donors stuffing grubby singles into his sweater vest. Continue reading
Fact: Unless you are a Patriots fan, Giants fan, or degenerate gambler, Sunday’s Super Bowl holds little direct value for you. You used to get psyched for the commercials, but now you can just watch those all online, for better or worse.
So, you’ve got no skin in the game, and little other reason to stay glued to the TV this Sunday, right? Then why would you even bother dragging over to some acquaintance’s house on a Sunday night in the dead of winter?
The food, stupid. Continue reading
Pity the poor American media. Forced to still cover six different ‘contenders’ for the Republican Presidential nomination, when they could be working to sharpen the alleged differences between a moderate-Republican-turned-frothing conservative-who-will-tack-back-to-the-middle as soon as he gets the nomination and an allegedly liberal-but-not-on-pretty-much-every-issue President, it was only a matter of time before the media would run out of patience for this whole exercise of ‘democracy’ and ‘primaries’.
How does an oligarch spend his time prior to the holidays? Buying out entire floors of FAO Schwartz? Flying in a plane full of hookers and coke?
Well, if the oligarch in question is JP Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon, you complain to anyone who listens that the mean folks whose economy you helped crash and homes you foreclosed while pocketing $23M in 2010 are being mean to you. Continue reading
If I think back hard enough, I can still feel the stinging in my hands, hear the ringing in my ears.
Growing up in northwestern Pennsylvania, those attacks on your senses were something you became accustomed to if you played baseball at a competitive level. I graduated high school in 1997, on the very fringe of the movement to turn youth sports into a year-round, practice-til-you-drop affair. Continue reading
This week of Thanksgiving, let us remember that we can at least be thankful that all but one of these people have NO chance of becoming president. Tonight is ostensibly about foreign policy and national security-areas where the GOP is typically pretty consistent. Sadly, this may mean that the candidates won’t have their favorite scapegoats tonight-Obamacare, gays, and poors. At least, not our gays and poors.
Come for the ignorance, stay for the insults. Continue reading
Proving that the institutional right isn’t going to just roll over while Occupy Wall Street defames the poor oligarchs who ostensibly run our country, a leading K-Street firm has pitched a plan to attack the movement where it wouldn’t actually hurt them: by ‘punishing’ the politicians who deign to support the movement.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had the first that we heard of it, which was a follow on to a HuffPo story containing an excerpt of the memo. The best of the excerpt reads: Continue reading
Admittedly, the first time I saw a promo for ABC’s Happy Endings, I was nonplussed, to put it mildly. As a long-standing fan of Fox’s 24, my memories of Elisha Cuthbert were a shade, well, terrible. Throughout her run on the show as star Keifer Sutherland’s daughter, she seemed an uneven performer whose character did a lot more to get in the way than it ever did to help move stories along.
By the time Happy Endings was through it’s first season, I had managed to avoid the show completely, save for risking ocular injury at the trailers that popped up during Modern Family. Then, something weird happened. ABC Family ran a marathon of the first season, and once I overcame my own biases against Ms. Cuthbert, I came to realize-Hey, this show is actually rather amusing. Continue reading
It’s likely that before the champagne could even dry into the carpet of the St. Louis Cardinals’ clubhouse Friday night, at least a few minds had turned to the elephant in the room. The right-handed hitting, Gold Glove, MVP-Award winning elephant named Albert Pujols.