- Know
when it becomes clear that you love an inanimate, killing machine of an object
a bit too much? When you feel like something as lame, trite and corny as a
Christmas card - one featuring multiple small children - is the perfect place
to wage your war in support of the Second Amendment, that’s when. Yes, we’re
talking to you, Las Vegas Assemblywoman Michele Fiore. In a perfect world, no
one outside of Sin City - and only a few select people within the city limits -
would have any idea who the hell Michele Fiore is. Instead, this lifetime
member of the National Rifle Association, the Front Sight Firearms Training
Institute and a member of something called Second Amendment Sisters is getting
a lot of national run because this Republican state representative has turned
her family’s lame-ass Christmas card into a firearm porn pictorial by posing multiple
generations of a family in matching red shirts and jeans standing in front of a
tree with her adult daughters, their
husbands and one of her grandchildren holding what appear to be guns.
"It's up to Americans to protect America. We're just your ordinary
American family," Fiore said in a Facebook picture posted December 1
signed, "With love & liberty, Michele." Fortunately, you’re not
anyone’s average American family and while it’s fine that responsible gun
ownership and Second Amendment rights are clearly driving passions in your
life, maybe you want to leave the Glocks, AK-47s, 9mm’s and hollow points out
of the holidays………
- College
students and Chipotle are a natural pairing. One is a commonly poor,
perpetually hung over group of individuals gradually, reluctantly lurching
toward a wildly overpriced degree that will earn them far less than they would
hope in their future career and the other provides reasonably priced, extremely
filling foods that are best consumed after a night of beer-bonging Keystone
Light from plastic tubing. Yet it appears the student-Chipotle tandem is the
root of a big problem for the Boston College men’s basketball team, which had
to cancel Monday's practice and may have to postpone Wednesday's game at No. 15
Providence because at least eight of its players and possibly as many as two
more are ill from potential food poisoning, likely stemming from a meal they ate
at the Chipotle restaurant in Cleveland Circle. All of the ill players ate the
local Chipotle, raising the possibility that they could be suffering from
E.Coli, which would fit with the recent problems the burrito chain has been
battling when it comes to the gastrointestinal bacteria. "Boston College
has confirmed that several BC students and student-athletes, including members
of the BC men's basketball team, have reported to BC Health Services
complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms,” the school said in a statement. The
Massachusetts Department of Public Health has been notified, and is working to
determine if there is a link to the ongoing national outbreak of e-coli.”
Without two key players, Dennis Clifford and Eli Carter, the Eagles already
lost a game to lowly UMass-Lowell, so trying to take on the No. 15 team in the
country with less than a half-dozen healthy players does sound a bit
daunting……….
- Awe,
look how cute the oppressive communist regime can be in the aftermath of a massive,
deadly and heinous terrorist attack. Sure, Russia totally sucks as a place to
live if you’re a fan of basic human rights and freedoms or not being shipped
off to a Siberian gulag if you happen to disagree with your fascist dictator of
a leader and yes, the Russians are in the midst of a massive doping scandal
involving many of their Olympic athletes, but at least there are people within
its border capable of extremely artificial, ulterior-motive-laced acts of
kindness. Big ups to Russian police for handing
over a puppy to the French ambassador in Moscow to replace a French police dog
killed in a raid, a rare and heart-thawing show of solidarity with France in
the aftermath of the Paris attacks. The deceased dog in question was Diesel, a
7-year-old Belgian shepherd killed in a French police raid targeting the
suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks in November. Diesel has become a
beloved figure around the world in the weeks since the attacks and where many
saw tragedy, Russia also saw an opportunity and that’s why this week began with
Russia's Interior Ministry giving the German shepherd puppy named Dobrynya
after a Russian fairy-tale knight to French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert.
Ripert magnanimously accepted the gift, calling it "a gesture that comes
from the heart," adding that "it shows the relations between Russia
and France quite well." That would make France one of the precious few
world powers with whom Russia doesn’t currently have a major beef, so at least
the French can feel good about that……….
- There
are few places more rife with hipsters than New York City and British indie
rockers Mumford and Sons have become a favorite of many in the ironically cool
world, so it only makes sense that a track off the band’s most recent album has
become the unofficial soundtrack for the trailer to
new documentary film exploring an oft-overlooked segment of life in Manhattan. The
film is called “Homme Less” and it is directed by Thomas Wirthensohn, who
explores homelessness in New York. The central figure in the movie is Mark, a
man who, according to the film's synopsis, "walks the streets of Manhattan
looking like a millionaire… during the day he pursues a 'normal' life, late at
night he goes to a place where the American Dream has turned into a
nightmare." Mumford & Sons’ Winston
Marshall wrote a post on the band’s website explaining why his musical outfit
elected to allow Wirthensohn to use the track “Tompkins Square Park” for the
trailer. "Thomas Wirthensohn made a film we love, 'Homme Less.' It follows
a close neighbor of mine at the time, Mark, a neighbor I never met, but
inevitably we’d have brushed shoulders several times,” Marshall wrote. “Mark is
one of the many men that make New York what it is, and Thomas' film is a
perfect portrait of the beast that the city is. He kindly used his footage and
put it against our song 'Tompkins Square Park', also the neighborhood in which
Mark and I lived.” All in all, it’s a very nice story of a very successful band
not acting like a bunch of money-grubbing, out-of-touch d-bags and instead, freely
lending their talents to a worthwhile project……….
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