- Memo to all athletes and coaches at all levels of sports:
Stop using war analogies and the world – including your lives by association –
will be a better place for it. What you do is in no way on the same level as
men and women who put their lives on the line trying to defend a nation against
enemies trying to kill them in a variety of awful ways, so using any war
analogy is offensive on so many levels. Take Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott, who
dealt with the latest frustrating loss in a season full of them by angrily
saying he knew which of his players he "wouldn't want to be in a foxhole
with.” After his team's 30-point loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday
and the Lakers' 28-point loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday, Scott
sounded very much like a coach whose team was setting a new franchise record
for losses in a season with each defeat. He lit into his team and tried to
liken playing professional basketball for a living for millions of dollars is
similar to soldiers on the battlefield hiding in a hole in the ground in an
effort to stay alive. "After the last two games ... I was probably as
frustrated as anybody," Scott said. "I thought the last two games, we
didn't come close. So that frustration boiled over. At that particular time, there
wasn't a lot of guys that I would want to be in the foxhole with. I want guys
that I know I can go to battle with.” One of Scott’s primary targets has been reserve
guard Nick Young, a.k.a. Swaggy P. Scott recently said Young "has to grow
as a basketball player if he wants to continue to play in this league for a
long time and ripped Young’s defense but the coach insisted he talks to all of
his players “about what they need to do to get better as a basketball player.”
Maybe write, “Don’t be like your coach and use regrettable war analogies” at
the top of that list………..
- There is family strife straining the inner sanctum of France's
far-right National Front party and it’s getting uglier than normal when the
party’s racist founder is involved. Party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is on the
record as saying that the Nazi gas chambers were merely a "detail in
history,” an ignorant and offensive claim this tool has reiterated on numerous
occasions as if saying something idiotic over and over makes it true.
The gas chambers were a detail in history the way slavery is just a funny
anecdote in the building of America, but keep believing that bullsh*t and see
how it goes, Jean. Yet this fool has decided to run in France’s upcoming
elections and his daughter, current party leader Marine Le Pen, said she will
quickly convene the party's executive bureau to seek "means to best protect
the political interests of the National Front." Simply put, she’s vowing an
all-out offensive against her father and saying she will oppose his candidacy
by any means necessary. To her limited credit, Marine Le Pen has worked to
clean up the party's anti-Semitic, racist image and has fought a guerrilla war
with her old-guard father, but she has yet to actually discipline him in any
way despite his bigoted, hateful views and outright refusal to admit how
horrible the Holocaust truly was. It’s hard to praise Marine Le Pen too much
for promising to oppose her father's candidacy to head the list in December
regional elections in southern France largely because the old man has little
chance to win anything, but maybe there’s still a shred of hope for his
out-of-touch views to change. Haha, just kidding. This old fart is a lost cause………
- The reasons behind what went down at a Denny's
restaurant in Alberta, Canada after a Marilyn Manson show doesn’t matter as
much as one might think. The shock rocker who is much less out-there and
shocking than he was 15 years ago because there is so much more visible
freakery in the world and he’s no longer the most bizarre cat out there found
himself in a scuffle as the low-end breakfast joint after a concert in the city,
proving that even a well-off recording artist can be a sucker for greasy
sausage, cheap pancakes and oily hash browns in the middle of the night. What
went down from there depends upon whom you’re asking. Some witnesses claim that
Manson became embroiled in a dispute with a fellow diner because the rocker
called this dude’s girlfriend a b*tch, prompting the local man to dent Manson’s
face with his fist. However, Manson has denied making comments that caused the
man to punch him in the face and through his agent said that he was minding his
own business when he was attacked. Other witnesses backed up that story and
said Manson was friendly, taking time to sign autographs and pose for photos
with fans when he was attacked. Police confirm there was a disturbance
at Denny's that night, but no charges were filed and the investigation is
closed, so whoever was at fault here must not feel the need for legal justice.
In the end, all that matters is the hilarious spectacle of a denim-clad denizen
of one of the world’s most docile nations becoming so enraged/eager to troll a
world-famous rock star that he used his fists of fury to bring the rage to
Manson’s face when the musician was merely trying to order a Grand Slam and eat
in peace……….
- Public restrooms, especially those of the portable kind,
are a uniformly disgusting lot. So how can they also be the solution for
problems with sanitation and human waste in San Francisco's Tenderloin
neighborhood? It’s easy and due in large part to a pilot program inspired by a
group of students at De Marillac Academy, a private Catholic school in the
neighborhood. The students wrote and read poems to city officials about their
struggles growing up in the Tenderloin area, where they had to keep an eye out
when they walked to avoid stepping on syringes and human feces. That spurred an
idea of how to clean up the area and so it is that mere blocks away from fancy
stores and long lines of tourists waiting for cable cars, solar-powered toilets
are rolling in four afternoons per week. Mobile commodes are not new, but
solar-powered ones on wheels and guarded by attendants are a long way from
stinky music festival toilets in rows in the middle of some field on a
sweltering summer afternoon. Putting them on the streets has proven to be a
huge success and the program has been so successful that city officials say
Portland, Oregon, Honolulu and New York have inquired about it as a means of
resolving similar sanitation problems. Proponents of the pushable poop
depositories say having public bathrooms accessible has taken a neighborhood
known for crime, homelessness and poverty and improved its livability. "Everyone
has to go to the bathroom, that's not something anyone can stop," said
Jane Kim, a San Francisco supervisor whose district includes the neighborhood.
"This program affords people some dignity to take care of a human
need." Workers bring in two portable toilets with sinks and mounted on a
trailer by trucks each Tuesday through Friday and set up in three spots near
soup kitchens and a park – all areas that attract large clusters of people. The
solar sh*tters are dropped off at 2 p.m. and taken out at 9 p.m. to be cleaned
and attendants working for a nonprofit contracted by the city make sure they
stay reasonably sanitary and keep them stocked with toilet paper, air
freshener, soap, paper towels and seat covers. Anyone who stays inside longer
than five minutes receives a courtesy knock…….
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