- Umm, about that whole “calling the commissioner of the National Football League a ‘crook’ and a ‘puppet,’” Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison didn’t really mean it. Harrison, who lashed out at the commissioner in a controversial interview that appears in August's Men's Journal, spoke about his remarks following the Steelers' walk-through Friday morning. Harrison admitted he should not have said what he said about the commissioner, whom he ripped for being everything short of the anti-Christ or an axe murderer. "The interview that I did and the comments that I made about Roger Goodell were inappropriate, at the least," Harrison said. "They were way out of line, and I was speaking out of anger and frustration at the time. Any comments that I made that offended anyone, I apologize." Ah, the “IF I offended anyone, I apologize” standby for an athlete or public figure who has made regrettable remarks. Go ahead and assume that IF you’re apologizing in the first place, then you said something that offended someone. Also, people tend to get offended when you call them a crook, a puppet and essentially, the devil. That Harrison was angry surprised no one because he was the most-fined player in the NFL last season because he could not or refused to adjust to the league’s increased focus on cracking down on hits to the head and defenseless players. Instead, Harrison seemed to relish being the poster boy for the campaign and delivered one over-the-top, dangerous hit to a defenseless player after another, then became livid at Goodell after his fines totaled $100,000. He followed those fines with controversial remarks and even staged a totally unbelievable debate over possibly retiring because he couldn’t cope with the “new NFL” before predictably backing down. While making his apology Friday, Harrison said he hasn't spoken to the NFL or to Goodell about his statements. The league has not commented on possible fines or a suspension for the remarks and Steelers president Art Rooney II stated that he had talked with Harrison about the remarks but that the team will keep any discipline internal. But with such a fine, thoughtful apology, how could anyone still be angry at Harrison…………
- What does the Web browser you use say about you? If a new study by tech research company AptiQuant is accurate, it could be a solid measure of your IQ points - at least if you use what could easily be classified as the world’s worst browser, which just happens to be made by the creator of the world’s worst operating system. The study tested the IQs of users and grouped the results according to which browser respondents used and surprise, surprise, they found that Internet Explorer users are generally dumber than Chrome and Firefox users. AptiQuant, the self-proclaimed "world leader in the field of online psychometric testing," found that users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera were all slightly above average in IQ test results, but Internet Explorer users tended to rank lower on the IQ scale. And before you dismiss the results as skewed and not representative of the general browser-using public because they include a small sampling, know that there are factual reasons why the results make sense. Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Opera are generally used by professionals and other well-educated, tech-savvy individuals, whereas Internet Explorer is the default browser on Windows-based computers, with Windows being the aforementioned world’s worst OS. Thus, Internet Explorer tends to be used by inexperienced and clueless computer users, many of whom don’t even realize there are other options. The numbers are even more staggering when the data is broken down amongst different versions of Internet Explorer. Older versions of the browser, such as IE6 and IE7, has users who scored lower than users of more recent versions, such as IE8 or IE9. So who are the smartest browser users on the Internet? That would be Opera users, who recorded the highest IQ scores of all the browsers. Chrome and Safari users posted similar scores, both slightly behind those of Opera users……….
- Don’t start complaining when the price of an eight ball of coke goes through the roof, Hondurans, because you need look no further than your own government for the cause of the trouble. See, it was your own authorities who seized 7.3 tons of cocaine from a semi-submersible craft seized off the country's Caribbean coast. Specifically, look in the direction of presidential guard chief Col. Rene Osorio and his crew, who seized the drugs and have been unloading them since Wednesday. Some of the blame also goes on the U.S. Coast Guard patrol that detected the vessel Wednesday off the coast of the sparsely populated province of Gracias a Dios, near the Nicaraguan border. Had these meddling Coast Guard members simply looked the other way and thought of all the friendly neighborhood coke dealers and cokeheads who were waiting on the product from that submarine-like fiberglass craft, they might have acted differently than they did. Instead, they stopped it and detained its five crew members. To their credit, the crew members didn’t go down without a fight and did so by……looking to go down, literally. Realizing the noose that was tightening around their collective neck, the crew members attempted to sink the vessel. Sadly, their efforts failed and The Man got to pin another gold star on his vest by taking control of enough Colombian nose candy to boost the overall haul of their most recent campaign against coke to 13.8 tons, with a total value of at least $500 million. That is a whole lot of Bolivian marching powder, quite possibly enough to last Lindsay Lohan through the filming or her next two or three movies…………
- Did he or didn’t he………..and better yet, why should anyone care either way? The last of those three is the appropriate question with rumors that “rapper” Soulja Boy purchased a $55 million G5 jet as a birthday present for himself last week making the rounds. The big difference with this rumor? It was apparently Soulja Boy and members of his crew who started the rumor. He, a member of his management team named Shai Storm and his personal assistant all implied to TMZ that he had dropped the cash on the private jet as a 21st birthday gift to himself. To further perpetuate the rumor, Soulja Boy went on a radio show Friday in Miami and was coy in answering questions about the story. He told the DJ he was "G5 status" but never directly confirmed or denied the jet tale. In fact, it wasn’t until his personal mouthpiece, Greg Miller, issued an “official” statement about the G5 rumor that any definitive word was given. The statement claims the "elaborate rumors" are "not true." That would be well and good - if Soulja Boy himself had not said the exact opposite to TMZ earlier in the week, answering a direct query on the subject by declaring, "Hell yeah ... I bought it."
Storm has dropped off the radar entirely, insisting all media inquiries from this point forward go through Miller. Again, one could easily get swept up in whether the rumor is true or false, or even ask why anyone who go to such lengths to build an elaborate fairy tale about purchasing a G5, only to have the story unravel so quickly. One could ask those questions, but by simply taking a step back and asking, “Why the hell should I give a damn about a D-list, bubble gum pop rapper with no game who is nothing more than the flavor of the week and whether or not he blew $55 million on a private jet even though he’s a one-hit wonder who probably won't make $55,000 once the remainder of the fame from his lone “hit” fades the rest of the way?” Ask that question and the drama all goes away…………
- No matter what neighborhood around the United States you go to, you’re bound to find that one über-annoying neighbor whom everyone else just hates and wants to go away yesterday. In the Fair Oaks neighborhood in Sacramento, the neighbors in question are small, too numerous to count and equipped with stingers. A massive swarm of bees took up residence in a vacant house early in the spring and literally overran the place, building hives and putting down roots. Angry neighbors first reported the problem to local law enforcement in April, but no one did anything about the problem and people simply went about their lives because the bees weren’t creating a big enough menace to inspire them to take action. Finally, the bees became belligerent enough to spur the locals to action and they called in beekeepers to help remove the insects. Resident Meg Helton, who lives across the street from the infested house, attempted to get her family from their house to their car to leave for their family vacation but was unable to get both of her children in the car in time and one was stung nearly 20 times. The family retreated to the house and unfortunately, the bee keeper who was hired for the cleanup did not enjoy much better fortune. Despite entering the house decked out on protective gear, he was forced to retreat after being stung more than 20 times. After fleeing in fear, the flustered beekeeper declared it could take as long as a week to fully clear the house of all bees. A local TV news reporter who attempted to cover the story was also stung half a dozen times in the face while attempting to do his job. If only someone had noticed this mounting problem months ago and that observant person had access to some sort of advanced, futuristic communication device allowing him or her to summon people with the ability to come and deal with large quantities of bees…………
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