- Soccer rage is to be expected with the World Cup going
on and nations pursuing their soccer dreams in Brazil. Of course, that has
nothing to do with the alleged buffoonery of U.S. gold medal-winning women’s goalkeeper Hope Solo, who
was arrested early Saturday morning on investigation of two counts of domestic
violence assault, according to police in South King County, Wash. For someone
with the clear poise under pressure of Solo – remember her famously throwing
her coach and a teammate under the bus following a World Cup loss in which Solo
was left on the bench – it is stunning to hear that she managed to escalate an
argument at a family gathering and turn things nuclear to the point that she
was being hauled off in handcuffs and two others were taken to the hospital for
treatment. According to police, Solo allegedly got into an argument with
relatives at a family party at the home she shares with her husband, former NFL
player Jerramy Stevens, in Kirkland. Having a family argument is nothing new
for anyone who has spent more than five consecutive minutes with multiple
members of their family, but going from throwing angry words at one another to
throwing punches and open-handed slaps isn't common and according to police,
that is precisely what Solo did, physically striking both her sister and
nephew. "There were visible
injuries on them," Kirkland police lieutenant Mike Murray confirmed. "There
was a big party going on at her house. It was an out-of-control situation.”
Solo is no stranger to domestic violence and in fact, then-boyfriend Stevens
was arrested in November 2012 for allegedly assaulting Solo. She did not press
charges and in a fitting development for such functional and composed people,
the duo were married the next day………
- Taser blasts are normally enough to drop anyone,
regardless of their size and strength, to the ground in a convulsing heap of
pain and tears. Men like 52-year-old Robert Zygarowski, of Ellwood City, Pa., are the
terrifying exceptions to this rule and their tales are equal parts amazing and
flat-out scary. Zygarowski joined the ranks of the drugged-up, tweaking maniacs who
found themselves face to face with the law and not only took the best the men
in blue had to offer, but shook off their attempts to bring him down and kept
on moving. The madness began shortly after midnight in Salem, in southern New
Hampshire, when officer Adam Pearson pulled over Zygarowski for a routine
traffic stop. Pearson reportedly found Zygarowski to be so uncooperative during
the course of their interaction that the situation turned tense, then violent.
At some point, things jumped up a notch and the officer felt compelled to use
his stun gun in an attempt to bring Zygarowski under control. That would
normally be the point when an angry dude becomes a twitching mess on the
pavement, but not Robert Zygarowski. Instead, he seemed impervious to the Taser
blast and yanked out the gun’s barbs from his skin and proceeded to assault the
man who had the audacity to try to arrest him. After delivering a few parting
shots to Pearson, Zygarowski then went total criminal legend by stealing a
police cruiser and leading officers on a two-state chase that included him
threatening to kill those pursuing him. Zygarowski initially fled in his own
car, but one of his tires blew in Lawrence, Mass. and when Pearson ordered
Zygarowski and two others out of the car, Zygarowski charged at the officer and
fled in the marked cruiser. It feels safe to say that a long list of
criminal charges are forthcoming here……..
- Beyonce Knowles goes big when she goes on tour. Her shows
are packed with effects, lights and production value, all of which help to
obscure the fact that she churns out unoriginal pop music that is in no way
superior to or better than the hundreds of other indistinguishable pop artists
who flood the market on an annual basis. That sort of show plays well for a
premium cable network like HBO when it decides to take a massive international
tour from said pop artist and convert it to a 10-episode show called “Beyonce: X10.” HBO
will use footage from the “Mrs. Carter Show” tour for the extended-run series
that begins tonight and will air on Sunday nights until all of its poppy,
overproduced tackiness has expired. Those who tune in can expect plenty of live
versions of songs from the singer’s fifth album, “Beyoncé,” including “XO”
and “Drunk in Love,” along with some of her other identical-sounding tracks
from her previous four releases. The relationship between Knowles and HBO has
proven to be a successful one, as they teamed up last year for her “Life is But
a Dream” documentary and while that much Beyonce in anyone’s life is probably
overkill, the American public has proven to have a disturbing level of
fascination with her up to this point. While fans relive her last tour through
the magic of flatscreen televisions and premium cable, Knowles and husband
Jay-Z will launch their “On the Run” tour, which kicks off in Miami this
Wednesday. Tickets for the tour aren’t exactly selling like new iPhones on
launch day, so maybe a parsed-out concert from last year is a preferable option
for many fans………
- There are no off days for political corruption in the
world. Weekdays, weekends and holidays are no barrier for those willing to
trade on their own power and influence – or the power and influence of friends
and relatives – in order to line their pockets with cash, luxury items, cars
and more. Mircea
Basescu, brother of Romanian President Traian Basescu, is the latest relative
of a political leader to find himself in a tough spot after police arrested him
on suspicion of taking a bribe and using the president's name to promise he
could get a prison sentence reduced. The Bucharest Court late Friday approved
an application from anti-corruption prosecutors to arrest for 30 days on
suspicion of taking a bribe of $340,000 from the family of a well-known convict
and while that is a respectable amount to coax out of a criminal’s family based
merely on your word that you can convince your brother to shorten said criminal’s
prison sentence, Mircea Basescu does not seem to have adequately covered his
own ass in the matter. He was caught on video that was acquired by a television
station that showed the footage in which he appeared to acknowledge receiving a
bribe to help reduce the sentence of Sandu Anghel, who is imprisoned for attempted
murder. Based on the video, he was detained on Thursday, but only for 24 hours.
The court acted quickly to make his status in confinement more permanent and yet,
Mircea Basescu has denied wrongdoing. Ever the good politician, the president
has adamantly denied intervening in the case and has distanced himself from his
brother. Somewhere, Roger Clinton is nodding happily and welcoming a new member
to the club……..
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