- The rage is real today and if you weren't feeling the heat
of direct dissident disdain for The Man, then you were either drunk and passed
out or locked under the mind control of the machine because it’s clear that
folks around the globe were intent on making their outrage felt. One such
instance came in Turkey, where a ground-breaking ceremony
for the construction of parts of the Mediterranean nation’s first nuclear
reactor was hijacked by activists who staged an angry protest – and really, is
there any other kind – because the plant is forging ahead despite ongoing court
cases against the nuclear plant being built by Russia in Akkuyu. This was part
riot, part protest and all awesome as demonstrators blocked a gate leading to the ceremony area, briefly preventing
officials from leaving the site. Holding high-ranking officials hostage is a
solid play regardless of what sort of weapons or threats you use to make it
happen and the show of force was so effective that security forces had to use
water canons to drive the demonstrators back and allow the suits attending the
event to escape. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the plant was designed to
withstand powerful earthquakes and tried to argue that it was necessary in
order for the country to move forward and solidify its place on the world
scene. "There cannot be a developed Turkey without nuclear energy,” Yildiz
said. The good news for anyone who couldn’t make it out for this riot is that
plans for Turkey’s second nuclear plant are already in the works and the
government has chosen a French-Japanese consortium to build the plant on the
Black Sea coast. There is even a rumor of a third place to reduce the nation's
energy dependence, suggesting a brawl between the opposition and The Man that
will only get nastier from here……..
- Score another one for a shameless cash grab disguised as a
transparent attempt to “give a new identity” to a perpetually disappointing
franchise. The Cleveland Browns absolutely NAILED IT when they went from that
one shade of orange in their logo to a slightly different shade of orange,
knocking the world on its ass in the process. It’s clear the Browns will win a
Super Bowl next season with their new motif and that logo will be the reason,
so of course the rebuilding Milwaukee Bucks want to gravy train the phenomenon and they
did exactly that to begin the week as they unveiled new logos that the team
will start using after this season. The Bucks picked a perfect night for the
unveiling, as they trotted three new logos out right before they b*tch-slapped
one of the most hapless teams in the Association, the Philadelphia 76ers. The forward-facing
buck on the current primary logo has been scrapped in favor of what the Bucks
are trying desperately to sell as a "fiercer and more aggressive" look.
It's an older, 12-point buck instead of an eight-pointer, which clearly makes a
difference to anyone who both follows the team and likes spending eight hours
in a tree stand on a frigid winter day, waiting like a loser for an antlered
quadruped to wander by so they can shoot it. Green is still the dominant color
in the primary logo and secondary logo (which is basketball-based and features
a stylized "M"), but red – which could represent the blood spilled by
those deer hunters – is out in favor of ream, a color with roots in the
region's history for a shade of brick found in older Milwaukee buildings. A
third logo includes a blue accent and the geographic outline of Wisconsin, a nod
to the importance of the Great Lakes in the region, the team said. "How do
we create three logos that not only honor our past but also thrust us into a
new era and new future of Bucks basketball," Alex Lasry, the team's vice
president of strategy and operations, said of the new designs. Look for the
Bucks hoisting the Larry O’Brien trophy next June………..
- So you thought the rage against The Man was over? Didn’t
you hear the first time we said it? This is a day of rage and it extended all
the way to the normally chill city of Seattle, where protesters opposed
to offshore drilling in the Arctic are fighting the good fight against
exploiting Mother Earth. These tree huggers oppose Arctic offshore drilling and
say oil companies have not demonstrated they can clean up a major spill, so
they plan use kayaks to meet the 400-foot Polar Pioneer and the heavy-lift
vessel called the Blue Marlin that is carrying it when the vessel comes to
Seattle for staging. Not so, says the Coast Guard. According to the branch of
the military of which no one is afraid, the enviro-kooks will have to stay in
safety zones when the drill rig arrives in Seattle. Chief Petty Officer Sara
Mooers said a Seattle-bound drill rig and a heavy-lift vessel are expected to
arrive in Port Angeles later this week and when they do, protesters will have
to stay 500 yards away from a moving vessel and 100 yards from one that is
anchored. "We fully support people exercising their First Amendment
rights, but there's a lot of activity in Elliott Bay," Mooers said.
Uh-huh, sure thing S. It might be your job to lie and cover for The Man, but in
this case some honesty about not giving a damn about the planet in favor of exploiting
it as severely as possible. Royal Dutch Shell intends to use the rig for
exploratory drilling during the summer open-water season in the Chukchi Sea off
Alaska's northwest coast if it can obtain the necessary permits and it already
won one victory in the case when a U.S. District Court judge granted the
company a restraining order against the protesters. The order forbids Greenpeace
activists from entering any safety zone around the rig and the Blue Marlin and
on Saturday, six Greenpeace activists opposed to offshore drilling in the
Arctic abandoned the Seattle-bound drill rig they boarded in the Pacific Ocean
on April 6. Expecting these maniacs to actually give up is a stretch, but their
fight is only getting tougher……….
- There is life after the Beastie Boys and it has much more
to do with the silver screen than slick rhymes and sick beats for at least one
member of the iconic rap crew. Ad-Rock, real name Adam Horovitz, recently said
that he and fellow surviving member Mike D may collaborate again musically some
day without using the Beastie Boys moniker, but for now Horovitz seems to be
focusing on thespian endeavors more than finding a studio and a mic to spit
rhymes into. He recently acted in Noah Baumbach's acclaimed movie 'While We're
Young,' starring alongside Ben Stiller, and seems to have caught the acting bug
in a big way. The good news when you’re a well-known public figure who has a
massive fan crush on a TV series is that you can probably leverage some or all
of your famous person freindships into a guest spot on that show and that’s
what Horovitz’s is angling to do with one of his favorite shows, “The Walking
Dead.” "I f*cking love that show. Every moment of that show... I would
love to be in 'The Walking Dead,'” he said of the show. Not only would he want
to appear in the hit AMC series, but Horovitz would also like to have some say in
his role. "I don't want to be a zombie. I want to be like [Daryl's] friend
from the city. Like a distant relative – 'He's my uncle's friend from New York,'”
he added. “They're not going to have that are they? I'd show up with like a PBS
tote bad and something from Zabar's - be like, 'Hey, I got lox! Who wants
bagels?'" Zombies love bagels too, bro, and with the sixth season of the
show set to premiere in October and a spinoff titled “Fear the Walking Dead”
also in the works, there should be a spot for an enterprising Beastie Boy at
some point……….
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