- Arizona
Cardinals linebacker John Abraham needed to apologize….just for more than
he actually owned up to on Friday, one month after being arrested on a DUI
charge. Abraham issued a statement through the team and in it, he made his
first comments since the arrest. "First, I want to apologize to my family
and friends, the Cardinals organization, my teammates and the fans for letting
them down," he said in the statement. "I understand the significance
of my actions and right now I am taking the necessary steps to handle my
personal business. I am very thankful for the support from my family, friends
and especially the Cardinals organization during this time in my life.” Those
words are fine, but the real omission from the mea culpa is for being that guy
– as in the guy who was driving drunk because he was day drinking at a strip
club. While many guys swear by the all-you-can-eat buffet of quasi-food at
their local gentleman’s club, an NFLer should never been liquoring up at the
Pink Pony strip club in the middle of the day. Professional athletes
should be able to pull most any woman they want and not need to go pay for the
privilege of seeing a woman get naked. Abraham was arrested after an officer found him passed out behind the
wheel of his black Dodge Challenger around 4 p.m. ET on June 29 at an
intersection of an Atlanta suburb after he had left the club. When he was
roused, he insisted he had just two drinks and told officers at the scene that
he had been waiting on someone to pick him up, but the person never arrived.
After admitting that he didn’t feel he was OK to drive and failing several field
sobriety tests, the All-Pro linebacker made a pathetically early trip to the
drunk tank and later had his license suspended……….
- If only all prison stints were so flexible and all prison
officials so accommodating. Slovenian ex-Prime Minister Janez Jansa has
been serving a two-year sentence for bribery since June. That sort of criminal
enterprising should be a reason for a man to remain locked up for the duration
of his sentence, but Jansa is no ordinary prisoner. Somehow, despite being
locked up, he actually won a seat in parliament. Voters in Slovenia simply
don’t seem to give a damn about whether a candidate is currently incarcerated
or not and they voted for the leader of the opposition Slovene Democratic Party
in disturbingly high numbers. The victory was nice, but it left Jansa with a
problem. He had a seat in parliament, but guys in prison jumpsuits and only one
hour of rec time a day can't exactly go about legislative business at the
capital the way other non-felonious lawmakers can. That’s where his
understanding prison administrator friends come in. They magnanimously granted
Jansa a brief prison furlough to attend the country's first parliamentary
session and he arrived unescorted to Friday's parliamentary session as several
hundred supporters gathered outside the building. Yes, there were sycophants so
adamant in their support of a criminal that they actually gathered en masse
outside the legislature to show their belief in him. All of this is facilitated
by the fact that Slovenia's laws don't formally ban a prisoner from running for
the 90-member parliament, which is something Jansa’s colleagues may want to
tackle. A few wise souls have demanded that he be stripped of his seat, but so
far that movement hasn’t gained much traction………
- Give Lorde credit. She cranked out a very well-received
album in 2013 and “Pure Heroine” was both a clever double entendre and a
polished project that launched the hit single “Royals,” so putting together the
follow-up should be a logical walk down the same musical path. Instead, the New Zealand
singer says she is struggling to write new songs because everything she is
coming up with sounds too much like her debut album. For many pop stars, that
wouldn’t be a concern. Cranking out the same generic sound over and over would
be perfectly acceptable as long as fans were buying it and showing up at
concerts. Lorde feels otherwise and added that she is trying to move her
songwriting to a new place rather than staying exactly where she is. “I’m
definitely writing new stuff. I don’t know how everything will end up. The
first period of writing after you have recorded an album, it all sounds like
the album before it,” she said. “I’m trying to get that out of my system and
move it to a new place. But I’ve been writing with some good people and just
doing weird, cool stuff, which is always good for being creative.” In addition
to working on her own album, Lorde is overseeing the soundtrack of the new Hunger Games film “Mockingjay: Part 1,” which is due out
in November and will feature her first new music since “Pure Heroine.” She said
she is reaching out to every artist on the soundtrack personally, although one
would suspect she won't be contacting Weird Al Yankovic, who parodied “Royals”
on his own new album. Still, Lorde said she was “psyched” to be parodied by
Yankovic and actually initiated the parody by reaching out to him……….
- Butter me. A topping party broke out over the weekend in the eastbound
lanes of I-465 just west of I-65 in Indiana when a semi carrying 45,000 pounds
of butter and whipped cream crashed along the expressway due to a narcoleptic
driver who couldn’t stay awake. According to Indiana State Police officials,
driver Charles Pryor III fell asleep and hit a sign. The force of the collision
tore the trailer in half, sending containers of butter and whipped cream
products sprawling across the highway. The scene got messy in a hurry with
Reddi-Whip, Blue Bonnet butter and Parkay butter spray strewn across multiple
lanes. Pryor escaped injury, but his fate with the company should be decided by
all of Utah-based CR England’s trucks are equipped with an electronic on-board
recorder that monitors a driver’s activity…..except for the fact that he was
using a rental truck at the time of the crash while awaiting repairs on his CR
England vehicle. Because of that, he was logging his driving and rest times on
paper instead of electronically. That will make it tougher to determine whether
he violated federal rules prohibiting drivers from driving more than 11 of the
14 consecutive hours they work. The various dairy-based products made quite a
mess of the highway and delayed traffic for a few hours, but local and state
police were eventually able to find enough rolls, butter knives and angel food
cake upon which to used the spilled spreads and clean up the road so traffic
flow could return to normal………
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