- There
isn't much reason to pay attention to Georgetown men’s basketball games this
season, nor to the postgame news conferences that follow those games. Well,
unless the most iconic coach in the history of the program, a man who is long
gone from the bench, is going to crash those news conferences and start turning
them into late-night, HBO-language-riddled rage fests in support of his son,
who currently coaches the Hoyas. John Thompson Jr. won 596 games coaching
Georgetown from 1972-99, but it’s John Thompson III who now roams the sidelines
for the team and after a recent win over Creighton in which the Hoyas were whistled
for 27 fouls to Creighton's 21, the elder Thompson interrupted his son's news
conference to weigh in on the game's officiating. "Last two games have
been terrible,'' Thompson Sr. said. "You can tell the f*cking commissioner
and everybody else in the Big East I said that.'' Those words came one game
after a home contest against Villanova in which Georgetown was called for 10
more fouls than the Wildcats, loosening the tongue of the former coach who was
once memorably ejected after earning three technical fouls during a Syracuse
game. His son was far more diplomatic and elected not to bash officials he
might see again this season. "During the course of the game we have to
adjust to the officiating. You have to adjust to how they're calling the game,”
Thompson III said. “Sometimes it's more difficult than others to adjust to how
they're calling the game and tonight was one of those nights, for one reason or
another, we couldn't quite adjust to how they were calling the game, but our
guys fought and kept playing.'' The conference hasn’t weighed in on the
outburst, but a team that’s just 13-8 this season is at least more watchable
with these shenanigans going on……….
- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! Haiti has been a cauldron of boiling dissent and
disappointment for years now, fueled in recent times by the devastating
aftereffects of a 2010 earthquake that ravaged the impoverished island nation which
has never truly recovered from the disaster. Woven through that shattered
society are the myriad issues of a contested presidential election that has
been equal parts chaos and confusion. Those emotions boiled over late this week
when supporters of Haiti's government held a march
in the crowded capital calling for elections to be held, drawing in several
thousand people to the streets of Haiti's largest city with a carnival-like
atmosphere. The rage was severely and sadly lacking in the peaceful gathering
as many donned new T-shirts emblazoned with the photo of Jovenel Moise, the
outgoing president's chosen successor. All parties in the process are in a
state of limbo because Haiti had been scheduled to hold a runoff presidential
vote last weekend, but electoral authorities postponed it indefinitely amid
violent opposition protests and allegations that the first round was marred by
rampant fraud favoring Moise. Fraud that worked in favor of The Man’s chosen
successor to the guy who’s leaving power? That NEVER happens. In the face of
major electoral instability, the Organization of American States has authorized
a special mission to help Haiti's polarized factions negotiate a new date for
the runoff. Current President Michel Martelly is due to leave office Feb. 7 and
at this rate, there’s going to be no one to take over………..
- Current
and former members of Pantera are not known for being especially meek, mild or
socially conscious. It’s a stereotype that may be unfair in some cases, but
apparently not when it comes to former Pantera
frontman Phil Anselmo, who finds
himself fighting off allegations of racism and support of white
supremacy after a video emerged allegedly showing him making a Nazi salute at a
recent gig. The offending incident occurred at
this year's Dimebash, a festival held in Hollywood in tribute to deceased
Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell, an event in which Anselmo performed the
thrash metal band's classic hit 'Walk.' After he finished the song, Anselmo
reportedly made a 'Sieg Heil' gesture to the crowd while shouting, "White
Power!" Even for a band known for being extremely hardcore and violent,
that sort of statement is way over the line….so Anselmo didn’t really say such
an offensive thing, right? Umm….let’s check out his effort to address the controversy in a comment on the Youtube
video of the incident. Ok folks, I’ll own this one, but dammit, I was joking,
and the 'inside joke of the night' was because we were drinking f*cking white
wine,” Anselmo wrote. “Some of y’all need to thicken up your skin. There’s
plenty of f*ckers to pick on with a more realistic agenda. I f*cking love
everyone, I f*cking loathe everyone, and that’s that. No apologies from
me." Oh, that should clear everything up. You were making an inside joke,
people are oversensitive and therefore, a Nazi salute is no big deal. If only
you and your former band weren’t years past your prime and barely relevant………
- There
are just some things you don’t steal or mess with in certain places. Cheese in
Wisconsin is one of those combinations and that’s what makes it so offensive
that the theft of $70,000 of Wisconsin cheese was stolen this week from a block
surrounded by warehouses in Germantown, Wisconsin. It was a well-orchestrated
cheese theft in which the stolen trailer was backed up to an empty one into
which the heisted dairy product was placed and driven away. Police found the
stolen container, but there was no cheddar inside. “We found that the trailer
was empty,” said Lt. Todd Grenier of the Germantown Police Department. The
chain of event began at D&G Transportation in Germantown, where the trailer
full of locally made cheese was set to be delivered at stops around the nation.
Company officials said they have surveillance footage of that trailer full of
cheese being hooked up and driven away. "We found out where the tractor
was and kind of mapped its progress through the city," Grenier added.
Amazingly, even as the stolen cheese was being tracked, a second cheese theft had
already gone down in nearby Marshfield, where $90,000 worth of parmesan cheese
was missing from a storage facility. Police don’t believe there is any
connection between the two thefts, but the sad truth is that even if the stolen
cheese is found, it can’t be eaten because the trucks the cheese was in were
sealed and when the thieves opened the truck, they broke the seal and that
broke the law because federal law mandates that any cheese exposed in such a
fashion becomes useless from a consumption standpoint. It’s almost as if a
piece of your soul was stolen and thrown away in the process, eh Wisconsin……….
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