- Chuck Sheen seems to have a never-ending reservoir of
rage from which to draw. That’s what makes him entertaining (that and the coke,
hookers, benders and other drunken antics), but maybe it’s time for him to
ditch the ire he holds toward the show that launched his most recent career
resurgence. Sheen is clearly not a fan of his successor, the über-goofy Ashton
Kutcher, on “Two and a Half Man.” He said as much over earlier this week when
he raged against Kutcher on Twitter. The rant began when Sheen tweeted a screengrab
of Kutcher and co-star Jon Cryer with the message, "hey Jon!!! u r a
GENIUS!!! I effin love and MISS YOU old pal! Q; who's your lame side-kik?
C." He chased his tweet with the hashtags "#NiceTryCanonBoy" and
"#CH," apparently a mistaken reference to Kutcher's commercials for
Nikon cameras as well as Sheen's departed character Charlie Harper. But hey,
accuracy is rarely important when declaring Twitter war on someone. Kutcher
replaced Sheen when the latter was famously fired from “Two and a Half Men” in
2011 follow his legendary meltdown and subsequent feud with series creator
Chuck Lorre. When some of his Twitter followers objected to his social media
siege, Sheen tweeted: "hey relax everyone! Read the hash tag! Oh and Jon
I'm so sorry I insulted your sidekick I meant REALLY lame." At that point,
Sheen could have simply stepped back and left the situation alone, but he went
for one final nuclear blast and addressed Kutcher directly. . "Hey Ashton
sorry bro all good. now quit barfing on my old brilliant show. Remember Punk'd?
how duz it feel?" Sheen wrote, accompanied by a mug shot of Woody Allen
from the movie “Take the Money and Run.” Stay classy, Chuck………
- The 48-hour ultimatum rebel commanders in Syria issued to al
Qaeda-affiliated fighters Tuesday has nearly expired and the response so far
has been relative indifference. The rebel commanders of the Free Syrian Army
ordered their terrorist counterparts to surrender or face “a massacre,” a
threat that seems to have intimidated no one. The FSA is slowly taking back
areas previously lost to a splinter group known as the Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL), but the ISIL has s turned the deadly civil war into a
complex battle in which opponents of President Bashar Assad’s regime are also fighting
each other. This has created a multi-front war in which the side benefit of
having a better chance that the person you’re shooting at is actually an enemy,
but also a deadly environment for everyone around the conflict. FSA commander
Gen. Mna’ Rihal said that ISIL must end its campaign and abandon its attempts
to create “religious division” between anti-Assad forces. In Rihal’s world
view, his forces are offering their foes goodwill from a strong position and
providing a chance to avert further bloodshed. According to rebel leaders, ISIL
has been pushed back from its previously-held areas in the north and 10 of its
leaders in Idlib and the nearby city of Aleppo have been arrested. The
ultimatum ends Friday and if ISIL forces do not surrender and lay down their
weapons, then basically the war will go on as it has for months. In the midst
of the chaos, another rebel group, the Nusra Front, called for a ceasefire
between opposition factions. Confirming any details from various warring
factions is virtually impossible at this point, but at least it’s a riveting
drama to watch from afar……..
- Sadly, jellyfish rarely get credit for their
intelligence. Twitter
co-founder Biz Stone wants to rectify that…by making more money. Stone has
created Jelly, a new social network built on the inspiration of jellyfish’s loose
network of connected nerves. The network gave rise to a project that aims to
outsource any question a person might have to their friends, friends of their
friends and so on until the query is answered. “We stumbled upon this concept
that everyone’s mobile, everyone’s connected,” Stone said. “If you have a
question, there’s somebody out there who knows the answer.” That truly shocking
realization struck Stone and fellow Jelly co-founder Ben Finkel and led them to
create what they hope is a more advanced version of Yahoo Answers. Jelly users
will not be able to make a tasty sandwich with the crust cut off, but they can
snap a quick photo about anything that grabs their attention and ask their
Jelly friends, “What exactly is this?” Those friends can either answer the
question or forward the question to people smarter than them who might know the
answer. Stone has been working for some time to move beyond Twitter and create
more apps and services to expand his empire, as has fellow Twitter co-founder
Jack Dorsey, who launched the mobile payments company Square. Another Twitter
original, Evan Williams, worked with Stone last year to launch the storytelling
platform Medium. Jelly is already available for both iOS and Android, which is
awesome because there are so few places to search online for answers to life’s
random questions……..
- No Division I college athlete makes it through their
career without hearing multiple messages about the perils of gambling and the
importance of steering clear of anyone associated with that shady industry.
Three University of Texas-El Paso men’s basketball players were either sleeping
through those messages or chose to ignore them because they are gambling
addicts in the making. Leading scorer McKenzie Moore and reserves Jalen Ragland and
Justin Crosgile have played their final game for the Miners after they were dismissed
from the program for gambling on athletic events. Although the school said
there is no evidence of point shaving or betting on UTEP games, Moore, Ragland
and Crosgile were booted and because all three are upperclassmen (Moore and
Ragland are juniors and Crosgile is a senior), they won't play for the Miners
again. "To date, there was no indication that point shaving was involved.
However, per NCAA rules, any type of sports gambling is prohibited and results
in a one-year suspension and loss of a year of eligibility," the school
said in a statement. "All three players are upperclassmen, and therefore their
college basketball careers are over. They are no longer enrolled at UTEP and
are no longer a part of our basketball program." Any time a school makes a
decision following an FBI investigation, go ahead and assume someone is getting
kicked out. UTEP coach and noted scumbag Tim Floyd said the coaching staff saw
no evidence during film sessions of players shaving points, but the school said
it received information late last month that two players -- Moore and Ragland
-- may have been involved in gambling on sporting events. The school reported
the information to the local FBI office and things went off the rails from
there……..
- A certain someone in the greater Phoenix area has
obviously been much too inspired by the real and on-screen lives of Mike Tyson.
Tyson famously kept all manner of exotic animals at his Ohio home back in the
day and had a pet tiger in “The Hangover,” but trying to bring that lifestyle
to the world of real, non-famous people did not go well for a Phoenix resident
who angered his neighbors by keeping a tiger in his back yard. Keeping tigers is
obviously illegal without the proper permits and facilities and if you’re going
to engage in that sort of illegal activity, you probably don’t want to post
Facebook photos of your cool new pets. Those photos and phone tips from
concerned neighbors led the Arizona Game
and Fish Department to take action. Several neighbors called to complain about
the tiger at a Phoenix residence making noise and the AGFD headed over to check
out the situation. "We received some calls about the roaring," said
Randy Babb with the Game and Fish Department. "This is an animal you don't
want in the apartment next door or the backyard next to you." When
officers arrived, they discovered a juvenile orange tiger tied up with a collar
on and at a second location in nearby Gilbert – believed to belong to the same
owner – a white tiger that had been kept in a dog kennel. Both tigers are approximately
8 months old and weigh about 200 pounds. Officials suspect the animals were
purchased legally in another state, then transported to Arizona. "These
animals want space to roam in and any kind of enclosure that you can provide in
a backyard will be insufficient," Babb said. "You never know when
something is going to turn, and when it does, when the animal is large like
this and is a very powerful, very efficient predator, it can get ugly very
quickly." So far, the tigers’ owner has not been located and his big cats
are in AGFD custody……..
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