- How did Pete Doherty go so wrong? He does know that he’s a
British rock star who has been in multiple successful bands and scored God only
knows how many hot chicks because of it, right? In that capacity, one is all
but assured of downing copious amounts of illegal narcotics and getting away
with it because, well, rock stars get away with that kind of sh*t. So why on
Earth is Doherty complaining that his drug usage has ruined his life? The
self-destructive frontman said that he has "caused so much crap" because
of his drug addiction issues that he wants to get clean. "I would like to
get rid of the damn drugs," he said. "It's no longer fun. On the
contrary, it's just sh*t and kills all my creativity. But it's difficult to
stop. My past life is a f*cking mess, a real mess." First and foremost, if
you can't appreciate a job where taking massive amounts of drugs is an accepted
– even encouraged – part of the job description, then maybe you no longer
deserve that job. Secondly, drugs helped open many new horizons for the
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and the like, so why is Doherty different? "It’s
gone wrong in so many ways. Although I don't believe in regrets - 'cause that
offers nothing - but clearly some things I would like to change,” Doherty
added. “I wish I had better contact with my family. I have caused so much
crap." On the plus side, one of Doherty’s bands, The Libertines, recently
announced plans to reunite, with a show at the British Summer Time festival in
Hyde Park on July 5. Maybe by then, their
self-pitying frontman will have sucked it up and gotten back to sucking down a
sh*t ton of coke, pot and heroin……..
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! Haiti is the place and the ouster
of President Michel Martelly is the cause for some badass dissidence that rocked
the capital city of Port-Au-Prince this week. The scene was a dramatic one as an
estimated 5,000 protesters marched through downtown Port-au-Prince, trying to
tear their own city to the ground by burning tires, trashing property and
blocking off streets in the congested capital. Faced with such a bold display
of force by the commoners, police responded by firing off tear gas canisters to
break up the riot. Sadly, their efforts were largely successful and highlighted
a pressing need among the opposition to regroup and rethink its riot strategies
before attempting any further overthrows of the government. Opposition leader
Andre Michel is the voice of the movement and explained that he and his
followers are calling for Martelly's removal because of widespread corruption
in Haiti's government and the failure of his administration to improve jobs,
schools and health care in the impoverished country. Those complaints have been
true of Haiti for decades, so they’re nothing new, but foolishly promising to
eliminate those problems and then failing to do so is a recipe for an angry
populace. Predictably, anti-government protests have grown increasingly common
in recent months and rather than fight back with irrefutable evidence of his
fulfillment of campaign promises – which he doesn’t actually have - Martelly
has accused his opponents of fomenting instability and blocking legislation
that would help Haiti. That has left the opposition with voter’s remorse, as the
president is mid-way through a six-year term. Looks like more riots are
needed………
- The real miracle isn't that the first three-dimensionally preserved eggs
of ancient winged reptiles that lived more than 100 million years ago have been
unearthed in China…what’s truly amazing is that unlike everything else produced
in China, the eggs weren’t slathered in toxic lead paint. Five intact eggs were
found, along with dozens or more adult fossils, of a brand new type
of pterosaur. As all dino-nerds know, the pterosaurs were a group of
prehistoric winged reptiles that dominated the skies during the time of
dinosaurs. They are believed to be some of the largest flying animals that ever
existed. "We found a lot of pterosaur bones which belong to different
individuals in the sites, with five eggs," said study researcher Xiaolin
Wang, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropologyat the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. At present, the fossil
record of pterosaurs is minimal and before this find, a mere four
individual flattened pterosaur eggs had been discovered by scientists. The
researchers for this project discovered the fossils of the new genus and
species, Hamipterus tianshanensis, in an area first excavated
in 2005 in the Turpan-Hami Basin, located south of the Tian Shan Mountains in
Xinjiang, in northwestern China. They believe there may be thousands of bones
remaining in the region where the eggs and skulls of adult male and female
pterosaurs were found, the researchers said. The working theory is that the newly
uncovered pterosaurs perished in a storm about 120 million years ago, during
the Early Cretaceous period. Wang and his crew found the eggs to be extremely soft
and pliable, with a thin, hard outer shell and a thick, soft inner membrane,
similar to the eggs of some snakes. Along with the eggs, the researchers also
found many adult pterosaur fossils nearby………
- Hey America….you know you’re still home to a disturbing
number of heinous racists, right? In case you forgot, enjoy this tremendous
tale of reviving the hate, bias and discrimination of the Jim Crow era, when
laws were heinously slanted against black people without shame. That spirit is
still alive in Memphis thanks to a manager at Atkinson Cotton Warehouse who understands
that you cannot simply allow people of another race shared conveniences like
using a microwave in the office break room or getting a drink from a water
fountain on a hot day. This is the tale of Untonia Harris, who worked at the
factory before being laid off earlier this year. Prior to being canned,
however, Harris said he used his phone to record his supervisor after feeling
discriminated against for months. One recording purportedly contains audio of
Harris asking his manager if he could use a microwave. "Hell no!" a
man he describes as the supervisor responds. When Harris asks why, the manager
smartly explains that it’s because Harris is not where. In another recording,
the same supervisor denies Harris a drink from the water fountain. "I need
to put a sign here that says, 'White people only,'" the voice says. That’s
when the enlightened manager responds to a question about what will happen to
Harris he is caught drinking from the fountain. The voice replies, "That's
when we hang you." Other places Harris wasn’t allowed to go include a
mechanical lift and random locations around the building that probably should
not have been off limits without a much better reason. Another African-American
employee, Marrio Mangrum, also complained of racism by the supervisor. "He
would be like, 'You need to think like a white man,'" Mangrum said. He filed
a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in January,
but it wasn’t until Harris produced audio in which the supervisor expresses
support for the Jim Crow era between the 1880s and 1960s that this party really
kicked into high gear……..
- Are the New York Giants the new Cincinnati Bengals of the
NFL? No, not a promising young team with a talented young quarterback who can’t
seem to come up big in the playoffs…the Giants, after all, have two Super Bowl
titles under their current regime. No, Los Gigantes are pressing the Bengals
for a more dubious distinction – that of the NFL’s biggest collection of
football felons. A recent spate of arrests has put Tom Coughlin’s crew in
position to seize the mantle for criminal activity and the arrests have caught
the attention of Giants safety and
team captain Antrel Rolle. Rolle mused this week about why his teammates are
having so much trouble staying out of trouble with the long arm of the law. His
comments came after drug suspensions to cornerback Jayron Hosley and now-former
teammate Will Hill. "It's too easy to do right to keep doing wrong,"
Rolle said. "We don't need to have that pub, people asking, 'What's up
with the secondary?' That's a bad reflection. It doesn't look good."
Hosley, who has proven little in the NFL thus far in his career, apologized
publicly Thursday for his four-game drug suspension. Hill was released by the
team earlier this week when Coughlin grew tired of his multiple suspensions and
constant drug problems. Hill, now a man without a team, is facing a six-game
suspension from the league for violating its substance-abuse policy. It's
Hill's third drug suspension in three years, so the Giants broke him off
proper. Hosley, the Giants' 2012 third-round pick, is still with the team but
will be suspended for the first four games of the season for his violation of
the drug policy. According to the young cornerback, he tested positive last
season and has been appealing since then, but "the ball didn't bounce my
way." "I want to apologize to the ownership of the New York Giants,
the general manager Jerry Reese, my coaches and most importantly my teammates
and the fans," Hosley said. "I made a mistake, and there's
consequences to what you do, and I've got to be man enough to face them and
move on." No, J., you did not make a mistake. A mistake is leaving your
coffee cup on top of your car and driving away or forgetting a pot of boiling
water on the stove and having it foam over the edge, soaking your stove top in
starchy H2O. Deciding that you like getting your chron on more than you like an
NFL paycheck is foolishness, borderline addiction and sheer stupidity all
rolled into one……….
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