- The
revolving door is spinning at warp speed in Cleveland and if the pace doesn’t
slow down, there may not be anyone left to populate the roster of the NFL’s
most inept franchise. On the very first day of NFL free agency, four starters
and arguably four of the best players on the Cleveland Browns used their
free-agent status to flee one of America’s most depressing cities for bigger
paydays and largely for warmer climates. Center Alex Mack (Atlanta), receiver
Travis Benjamin (San Diego), safety Tashaun Gipson (Jacksonville) and offensive
tackle Mitchell Schwartz (Kansas City) agreed to deals with new teams, with
Gipson scoring a five-year, $35.5 million deal to cap the mass exodus. The
Jaguars clearly needed a safety whom they could trust to play single-high
coverage and Gipson needed a new home because a) the Browns suck and will
always suck and b) he was pissed that the team gave him a second-round tender
as opposed to a first-round tender. The two sides could not reach a deal and so
a talented player who was the first undrafted defensive player to make the Pro
Bowl since 1991, finished tied for second in the league in interceptions in
2014 despite missing five games with a knee injury and had the fourth most
interceptions in the NFL since he became a starter in 2013 is heading to a state
with no state income tax and a team with a brighter future than the one he
left. Some have speculated that losing four key players is due to the Browns’
reshuffled front office wasn’t prepared for the start of free agency, but
whatever the reason, the last thing this team can afford is losing any of the
extremely small amount of talent it has…….
- Now
THAT is how government should be done. While lawmakers in England gather once a
week to shout angry things at their prime minister and American senators and
representatives bore people to a coma with their yammering and filibustering on
bills about farm subsidies, Kosovo opposition
lawmakers have been busy working to reinvent the lawmaking game. These maniacs
have disrupted parliamentary sessions with pepper spray, whistles and water
bottles to protest against a deal between Kosovo and Serbia giving more powers
to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo, but those efforts haven't done enough to bring about
their desired impact and so it was time to amp up the anger, which they
accomplished by shooting off tear gas to disrupt a parliamentary session to
protest the government’s deals with Serbia and Montenegro. This demonstration
of force and borderline insanity forced Speaker Kadri Veseli to suspend the
session on account of the fallout after the opening of a tear gas canister in
the opposition seats. Better still, this was the ninth such protest with tear
gas by opposition lawmakers since September, showing that not everyone believes
the fairy tale that if you debate well, negotiate in good faith with the people
on the other side of the aisle and listen to the wishes of your constituents,
government can work as intended and good things will result. No, these
opposition warriors oppose a border demarcation pact with Montenegro, the
election of the new president in parliament and a hell of a lot of other things
and they know the only way to affect real change is to gas people out and
threaten to burn this mo-fo to the ground on a weekly basis……….
- The
haymakers are flying between recording artist Chance
The Rapper and director Spike Lee in a heavyweight Hollywood fight that doesn’t
seem to have much of an actual purpose. The feud stems from Lee’s movie
“Chi-Raq,” which Chance labeled as "exploitative and problematic." That
didn’t sit well with the director, who took time out from filming commercials
with Charles Barkley and Samuel L. Jackson to rip Chance for his father's
association with the city's mayor. The mayor in question is Rahm Emmanuel, who
has been accused of poorly handling the growing wave of police violence in the
city. Lee chose to weigh in on the Windy City’s problems with “Chi-Raq,” which
is a modern day adaptation of Lysistrata,
an ancient Greek play written by Aristophanes, set in a Chicago filled with
gang violence. During a speech at
Northwestern University, Lee denounced Chance as a "straight-up fraud,”
but there was no way a rapper with an open mic, open social media account
and/or access to a recording studio wasn’t going to find a way to fire back.
Chance chose Twitter, claiming the director "begged" him to be in the
movie, while also calling the film out as "sexist" and "racist.”
But wait, there’s more. "Come on now This guy promoting this offensive
unsuccessful flop of a movie ... about the Southside...in f*cking Evanston,”
the rapper added. "And then get mad when students at the screening
challenge him on his sexist, and RACIST movie and he wanna point the finger at
me." Hope both of you guys enjoy the nice publicity boost for your current
projects that this tiff is creating………
- The
Church of Ganja is under fire in New Jersey. Specifically, Ed Forchion, better known as NJ Weedman, is trying to
camouflage his support of the hippie lettuce behind the guise of religious
freedom and New Jersey's loudest champion of marijuana isn't backing down after
battling the legal system on two coasts and spending time in and out of prison.
He pretended to go legit last year when he opened up a restaurant across from
city hall in Trenton, but is now claiming that city police infringed on his
religious rights after shutting down the cannabis temple attached to his
restaurant for staying open too late at night last weekend. In response,
Weedman has filed an injunction in federal court to keep his temple open after
11 p.m., claiming that many of his congregants gather at that time to get baked
on a property that includes a large white cross festooned with ornamental
marijuana leaves. Police shut down the so-called "cannabis church"
early in the morning because of a city
ordinance that limits a business's hours. "I call it a midnight
mass," Forchion said. "I grew up in the Baptist church and have been
to plenty of midnight services and midnight revivals. I should have the same
rights as the Shiloh Baptist Church." Right, but you’re only trying to
call yourself a church so you can get clearance to be protected as stoners. This
may be a guy who campaigns for political office under the banner of marijuana
legalization. His main argument is that marijuana laws infringe upon his Rastafarian
religion. He’s still trying to challenge his 2010 conviction for marijuana
possession and fight for NJ Weedman's Joint and its temple, but so far it’s
been a losing battle for the Weedman and his friends………
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