- Just
one more thing to blame Fred Durst for. The entire back catalog from his über-crappy
nu metal “band” is enough cause to despise this d-bag in a wife beater and red,
backwards New York Yankees hat, but now Durst is claiming that he and Limp
Bizkit are
responsible for Guns 'N Roses members/mortal enemies Axl Rose and Slash burying
the hatchet enough to cash grab, er, perform together again. Durst made his
outrageous claims during the Reading Festival, opening with their one song that
anyone knows, “Rollin’” before launching into a slew of forgettable songs with
Durst mixing it up wardrobe-wise in a blue baseball cap and grey tracksuit. At
some point in the show, a guitar solo from Guns ‘N Roses’ classic “Sweet Child
O' Mine” was tossed into the mix and Durst let the world know that his band was
behind Guns 'N Roses reuniting. "I'd like you to know that we're
responsible for Axl and Slash being back together," Durst told the crowd.
"We had a meeting and it went really well." Yes, you’re a regular
Kofi Annan, Durst. You get feuding rock stars together in the same room and
magically, your wisdom makes their disputes disappear. Either that or Durst
forced both men to listen to “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water”
on a loop until they both caved and agreed to do whatever he wanted as long as
he made the bad, bad sounds stop immediately. Perhaps this is an amazing bit of
good news for the world, a way we can solve more of our impossible disputes
merely by threatening the torture of Durst and his bandmates……….
- You
come at the king, you best not miss. Especially if that king is an actual kind
of a real country and one wiling to press charges against you if you attempt to
blackmail him by demanding 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in exchange for not
publishing a compromising new book about him. The wit and wisdom of “The Wire”
is clearly lost on French writers Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, who were
issued preliminary extortion charges on accusations that they tried to
blackmail Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The Paris prosecutor's office announced
that this dynamic writing duo were released under judicial supervision after
being given the charges and yet the case against them is just getting
interesting. A French lawyer for the king said the journalists demanded the
king’s random from Mohammed VI, but their scam unraveled quickly when the king didn’t,
you know, bow to the pressure of two foreigners and instead contacted law
enforcement, which set up a sting operation that soon took Graciet and Laurent
down. It wasn’t a huge stunner that these tools tried to extort the king, as
they are known for their critical writings about the Moroccan leader. The case has
become a major focal point in Morocco, where the monarchy is considered above
criticism. Take a run at a country’s king and it’s funny how the people there
come to hate you and want to see your head on a pike, paraded through the
streets of Casablanca for all to see. Better luck next time, you wacky French
extortionists……..
- How
bad does the state of a college football program have to be for a Division I
university to fire its head coach one week before the start of the season? Ask
the University of Illinois, where university officials dropped the guillotine
on coach Tim Beckman amid allegations of influencing medical decisions and
pressuring players to play hurt. The Fighting Illini broke off a coach who was
an awful 12-25 -- and 4-20 in Big Ten play -- in three seasons at Illinois and
they’re going to try to screw him out of the $3.1 million remaining on the
final two years of his five-year contract, so it’s not as if there are any
immediate benefits for the school whatsoever….right? Athletic director Mike
Thomas announced the move, issuing a statement that said the dismissal was
related to preliminary results of an external review into the allegations,
which also included efforts to avoid reporting players' injuries. Beckman took
just a few seconds to fire back, denouncing the allegations as "utterly
false" and suggesting he might take legal action. The embattled former
coach called g the decision to fire him "a rush to judgment that confirms
the university's bad faith." "I firmly deny the implications in
Mike's statements that I took any action that was not in the best interests of
the health, safety and well-being of my players," Beckman said in a
statement. His downfall began when former offensive lineman Simon Cvijanovic
initially made allegations on Twitter in May, prompting the university to investigate.
What that investigation found is still to be announced, but it’s clear that
there are some ugly skeletons in that closet if a firing happens eight days
before kickoff………..
- How is
admitting you were late for work 111 times in two years and blaming it on
Toucan Sam a thing? That’s a question to ask Arnold Anderson, a New Jersey elementary
school teacher who was allowed to keep his job despite hitting triple digits in
tardy arrivals and said he couldn’t get to work on time because he has “a bad
habit of eating breakfast in the morning, and I lost track of time.” Bro, you’ve
been a teacher for 15 years and during that time, the smartphone has both been
invented and provided responsible, non-moronic adults with several dozen ways
of keeping track of time and setting alarms and alerts letting them know if
they need to leave or take a particular action. Amazingly, this ignorant
asshole got to keep his job when an arbitrator in New Jersey rejected an
attempt by the Roosevelt Elementary School in New Brunswick to fire him from
his $90,000-a-year job was wrong because he was entitled to progressive
discipline. While the arbitrator also criticized Anderson's claim that the
quality of his teaching outweighed his tardiness, letting a guy keep his gig
when he can't master the alarm function on his iPhone or bring his quality time
with Cap’N Crunch to a prompt ending is just poor form for an arbitrator. This tool
was late 46 times in the most recent school year through March 20 and 65 times
in the previous school year, although Anderson said he was one to two minutes
late to school "at the most" but was prepared and was never late for
class. "I have to cut out eating breakfast at home," he said. The
school year is underway and will be sans Anderson until Jan. 1, meaning his
students will have half a year with a teacher who can actually cook and eat
scrambled eggs in sufficient time to get to school before the first bell. For
now, Anderson keeps his gig because of a loophole he used to argue that the
district failed to provide him with due process by not providing him with a
formal notice of inefficiency or giving him 90 days to correct his failings
before terminating his employment………..
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