- The
rage was real this weekend in Serbia, where a
massive commemoration of the slaughter of Bosnia Muslims at Srebrenica 20 years
ago turned into a near-riot when anger stemming from the occasion led members
of the crowd to pelt Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with stones, water
bottles and other objects. Hurling various heavy items at an elected official
is always a solid use of your time and according to an aide, Vucic was hit in
the face with a rock, breaking his glasses. Vucic's associate, Suzana
Vasiljevic, said she was behind Vucic when "masses broke the fences and
turned against us." Probably should have seen it comes, Suzy. Bring in
tens of thousands of people to mark the 20th anniversary of Europe's worst
massacre since the Holocaust — the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims from the eastern
Bosnian town of Srebrenica — and intermingle them with foreign dignitaries
urging the international community not to allow such atrocities to happen again
and someone is bound to be offended. Vucic used to be an ultra-nationalist but
tried to spin his appearance as a gesture of reconciliation and clearly
miscalculated how that would go over. He fled the scene after coming under
attack and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that the attack on Vucic
was an attack on Serbia. "By deciding to bow to the victims, Serbia's
prime minister behaved like a statesman," Dacic said in a statement.
"This is another negative consequence of politicizing this subject that
has brought new divisions and hatreds instead of reconciliation." As if a
man entering the cemetery to lay flowers and having thousands boo his presence
and belt out angry whistles can’t bring a country together………..
- As
always, if you’re going to get yourself charged with aggravated robbery and
theft, at least have a damn good reason. Former University of Utah cornerback
Dominique Hatfield knows what’s up and that’s why despite the fact that he was
dismissed from the football team last week following his arrest, this guy is
winning at life. One day, he’s a scholarship player for a Top 25 team and the
next days, he’s kicked off the team because authorities have accused him of
robbing a man at knifepoint who planned to buy an Xbox game console from him. Yes,
the ol’ “Pull a knife on a dude who just wants to pick up a cheap used game
console” trick, it works every time. Not only that, Whitfield is also accused
of stealing and trying to sell cellphones. In other words, dude was apparently
running a low-rent criminal enterprise while also playing football and possibly
going to class from time to time. It’s impressive that he managed to keep it up
for as long as he did, a streak that came to an end after Utah football coach
Kyle Whittingham said in a statement that there were further concerns about Hatfield's
off-field behavior after he was suspended from the program Monday. The only one
who seems optimistic here is Hatfield's attorney, Greg Skordas, who said the
criminal case was headed in a positive direction and he was surprised by the
dismissal. Skordas is clearly lying, but when your client is a junior from Los
Angeles who started 10 games in 2014, you do whatever you can to keep him on
the team………
- The
beach is already a smelly place. It’s about to get its über-stank on at state
beaches in California for the rest of the summer and possibly beyond, at the drought-stricken state has shut down outdoor showers at
said beaches, forcing swimmers, sunbathers and surfers to get creative when it’s
time to head home. Public rinse stations in all state-run beaches and parks
will be shut down this Wednesday as the state battles a four-year dry spell as
the latest step in a series of measures designed to keep California from drying
up like a raisin. The severe drought has led Gov. Jerry Brown to order
California communities to cut water use by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels
and even state parks are not exempt. California State Parks said its 278 parks
have successfully met the water reduction mandate, but some are located in
areas with more water scarcity and will therefore have to further reduce
consumption. Todd Lewis, acting superintendent for the department’s Orange
Coast district, urged visitors to seek alternatives to the showers, such as
using a broom to brush off their bodies or bringing their own water. Yes, because
SoCal residents whose idea of slumming it is riding in a friend who has last
year’s BMW 5 Series instead of the new model will carry a couple of extra gallon
jugs of water with them or have a Dollar Store broom with them to brush off the
sand. Shutting off public showers could save more than 18 million gallons of
water annually, the department estimated, and California State Parks director
Lisa Mangat said it is vital that “Californians conserve water at home, at work
and even when recreating outdoors." Make sure to bring some air freshener
for that ride home after a hella-good day of surfing, Cali bros and chicks………..
- A
life in rock and roll mixed with a degree from Harvard apparently isn't enough
to make one sitcom fodder these days. Weezer
frontman Rivers Cuomo has done a lot and made a fair amount of money in his
lifetime and that was supposed to earn him a 30-minute stint weekly on Fox in
the form of a sitcom loosely based on his life, but that won't be happening
now. The show, scripted by Steve Franks, has been passed over by the network
and that means no gig for actors Peter Gallagher and Olivia Thirlby, who shot
the pilot with British actor Ben Aldridge cast as Cuomo. The pilot laid out the
groundwork for the story of a 30-something rock star who is worried about his
success and walks away from the spotlight at the height of his career to
rediscover the parts of his life he missed out on when he was becoming famous
was filmed. That sounds an awful lot like what Cuomo did a few years back and
while television has a funny way of taking such stories and turning them into
bloated, barely recognizable versions of what they actually were, it would have
been interesting to see how Cuomo’s tale of being a nerdy, overly self-aware
rock star whose albums tend to be polarizing even to his own fans would have
played out on the small screen. Given how many terrible shows actually make it
to air and fail miserably within the first five episodes, it’s actually
stunning that this one wasn’t picked up………
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