- Meek Mill has lost virtually every round of his hip hope
battle with rival Drake. He’s less famous, seemingly less talented and
definitely less capable of quickly churning out responses when Aubrey Drake
Graham and it seems like comparing Drake to Caitlyn Jenner during a recent onstage freestyle isn't going to
help him rally in this fight. The Philadelphia rapper not only went to a tired
reference that saw him rap, “ "Did five months, came home, that's perfect
timing / To make a sucka n***a look sucka without trying / If Quentin Miller
wrote that shit, what were we buying?", adding, "N***as turn to hoes;
Caitlyn Jenners turn to Drizzy Drakes,” but he then kicked it up a notch by
threatening to go full-on sixth grade by giving his Toronto counterpart a wedgie.
Yes, the always-feared move of pulling the elastic strap in a dude’s underwear
up as far as possible, wedging his drawers as far into his butt crack as
possible. Meek Mill didn’t specify whether it would be an atomic wedgie or not,
but clearly this sort of attack has to have Drake absolutely terrified to walk
into any room without several bodyguards to protect him. That the rap came in
Meek Mill’s hometown suggests that he may have felt a bit too emboldened by
performing in front of friends and family and simply allowed his words to get
away from him. The good news is that he was going to lose this battle either
way, so his pathetic performance on that Philly stage didn’t make a difference
one way or the other……….
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! The dissidents went aquatic this weekend in Brazil, where at least 30 boats of all sizes took part in a parade
protesting the contamination of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, where sailing
events will be held next year during the Olympic Games in Brazil. A water
quality report released last month claimed that the bodies of water to be used
for the various outdoor aquatic events in Rio are hopelessly polluted, with no
possible means to sufficiently clean them up in time. So why is the Living Bay
organization organizing an event in which sailboats, schooners, tourist boats,
canoes and fishing boats made a 7-mile round trip from the Marina da Gloria on
Guanabara Bay to Urca, a neighborhood located at the foot of Rio's iconic
Sugarloaf mountain? Because a) there is never a bad time to enjoy a beautiful
day on the water in your favorite boat and b) the organization claims that
athletes train in the bay under precarious conditions and that the bay must
always be in good condition regardless of its use in large events like the
Olympics. A slow-speed boat parade with whoever doesn’t have something better to
do for the weekend doesn’t exactly bring the sort of rage and loud outcry that
a protest needs to get sufficient attention to bring about change, but in
between now and next summer there are going to be dozens of reminders about how
filthy Brazil’s waters are and how unsanitary competing in them will be for
Olympic athletes, so use this situation as a way to get used to what’s ahead……….
- This
has been a long and perpetually disappointing season for the Detroit Tigers. Their
string of four American League Central titles in a row will end this year, they
sold off several key pieces at the trade deadline in the unofficial waving of
the white flag on their competitive hopes for the campaign and now, the
stresses of the season are causing them to turn on one another. Enter the
dugout slap fight that broke out between Detroit Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias
and catcher James McCann in the dugout midway through the sixth inning of
Friday night's 7-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox. Because there are dozens of
cameras in every major league stadium and nothing of note goes unnoticed, TV
cameras captured Iglesias shoving McCann before the two were separated and not surprisingly
in a sport with its own mysterious, unspoken code of conduct, none of those
involved wanted to talk about what happened or why. Neither player spoke to
reporters after the game and teammates would only say that the matter was
settled. Tigers manager Brad Ausmus likened it to brothers fighting and
downplayed any significance to the mini-brawl. "You spend seven months with each other,
there's going to be disagreements, and sometimes, it leads to pushing and
shoving," he said. "I've seen it dozens of times during my playing
career," Ausmus said. "It's generally just because they care about
winning and losing, and that's what it was tonight." Smart money on the
cause of the conflict is a key play in
the top of the sixth inning in which Iglesias appeared to ease up too quickly
on fielding Rusney Castillo's grounder up the middle, resulting in a single. After
Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run double to give Boston a 7-2 lead, the dugout
pyrotechnics followed in short order as the Tigers suffered another loss in a
season full of them……….
- Never
forget that being on the supposed right side of the law doesn’t mean that a
person is any less of a criminal than those they arrest or prosecute. Pennsylvania's top prosecutor is proving this truism by
stepping into a role that usually belongs to people her state’s law enforcement
officers arrest, jail and haul into court. State Attorney General Kathleen Kane was arraigned
Saturday in the Philadelphia suburb of Montgomery County on charges that she
leaked secret grand jury information and then lied about it, which is shocking because
government and law enforcement officials never lie or attempt to manipulate the
facts of a case in order to serve their interests. Kane is the first woman and
first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania's attorney general and having that
designation attached to your name and then possibly ending up losing that job
and trading your power suit for an orange jump suit isn't really going to help
the cause of future women achieving the same sort of career success. In her
defense, Kane maintains she is innocent and is fighting against calls for her
resignation from critics, fellow Democrats and even Gov. Tom Wolf. Prosecutors
say Kane leaked grand jury information to get even with a former state
prosecutor she thought made her look bad and even enlisted aides to spy on
office employees and others to keep tabs on a grand jury probe into the leak.
It’s all shady as sh*t and when someone is accused of such extensive wrongdoing
and faces criminal charges because of it, there are definitely at least a few
dirty deeds under the rug somewhere……….
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