- Augusta
National’s European branch remains committed to its bass-ackwards social
stances and now, the British Open is acting accordingly. Muirfield, one of
golf’s most iconic venues and entrenched firmly in the birthplace of the sport,
has been removed from the host venue rotation for
The Open because its socially stunted, misogynist members have voted against
allowing women to join. The stuffily-named, thoroughly pompous Honourable
Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which owns Muirfield, will remain a men-only club
after failing to reach the two-thirds majority required to change the club's
membership policy. When that happened, it took about two seconds for the Royal
& Ancient, which runs golf's oldest major championship, to announce
Muirfield will no longer be considered to host the tournament. "We have
consistently said that it is a matter for the Honourable Company to conduct a
review of its membership policy and that we would await their decision, the
organization said in a statement. “The Open is one of the world's great
sporting events and going forward we will not stage the Championship at a venue
that does not admit women as members. LPGA commissioner Michael Whan, who makes
a lot of money governing a sport no one pays any attention to, applauded the R&A's
decision on Twitter, which is probably the one publicity the LPGA will receive
this week or this month. As for Muirfield, way to lag behind even Augusta
National, which was slow to admit women and minorities, but finally came around
a few years ago. Your turn, Scots…….
- Internal
combustion muscles are the worst. Much like trolls sitting behind a keyboard or
on their phone suddenly feel empowered to mock, ridicule or berate total
strangers on social media because they don’t have to face any consequences for
their words, a-holes behind the wheel of a motorized vehicle have a definite
air of superiority when it comes to pedestrians and cyclists on the road. If a
person isn't driving, then they’re lesser than to most motorists and for idiots
like the one who stars in a YouTube video posted by a bicycle shop owner in
Tempe, Arizona, seeing someone pedaling on two wheels is an affront to all that
is good, holy and right. This unidentified gas bag clearly did not want to
share the road with a cyclist and decided to unleash a profanity-laced exchange
that he may regret if he finds out that the incident was captured on the
bicyclist's camera. The scene begins with cyclist Jim Anderson, the manager of
Landis Cyclery in Tempe, being blasted by the horn of a driver who then begins
berating him. "Use the (expletive) sidewalk," the driver can be
heard saying in the video. The two-minute confrontation reaches its apex when
the driver opens his door and angrily asks the cyclist, "You got
something to (expletive) say to me, bro?" Anderson posted the video
on YouTube, calling attention to what went down as he rode into the left turn
lane at the intersection of Curry Road and Mill Avenue. "It gets pretty
crazy out there sometimes," Anderson said. You basically follow the same
rules you would in a car. Usually, people who react negatively to cyclists kind
of always react negatively to cyclists and don't feel like they should be on
the road.” The bad news is that there was no criminal activity in this mess
because if there had been, this video would have been exhibit A in a winning
case for the prosecution……..
- Has
anyone missed the pompous former co-frontman of British rockers Oasis? Anyone?
At all? Didn’t think so. But that doesn’t mean that Liam Gallagher isn't still
desperate to matter and therefore, he dropped a very cryptic, obviously
attention-seeking tweet in which he hinted that he may return to music soon.
There were rumors not long ago that he had retired from music following the end
of his most recent band, Beady Eye, which he formed after Oasis broke up in 2009 along with every other member of
Oasis - sans his estranged brother Noel. Having dropped off the map after two
uninspired Beady Eye albums, Gallagher is trying to grab a share of the
spotlight with a series of tweets that began with, “Lots of exciting
things happening time to get back in ring give us a call ROVER," before
chasing that gem with one that says, “Groove is in the art.” What any of that
means is unclear, but one thing it apparently does not mean under any
circumstances is that Gallagher will put out a solo album. He was recently
asked about that possibility, seeing as he doesn’t currently have a band, but
he was having none of it. "Solo record, are
you f*cking tripping dickhead?" Gallagher wrote on Twitter in response to
that query.” He added that he would not release solo material as he is
"not a c*nt." How a solo album makes one a derogatory term for a
piece of the ol’ anatomy is unclear, but maybe Gallagher feels like he simply
doesn’t have the musical chops to carry an album all on his own. That means he
needs to find himself a new band and quickly if he hopes to make a comeback
from wherever the hell he’s been………
- Switzerland
may be militarily neutral, but that doesn’t mean it can’t stick its
Alpine-chilled middle finger in the air to the entire European Union over the
topic of currency. While the eurozone is scrapping
its 500-euro ($564) note in the name of security, Switzerland sees no need to
kill off its own 1,000-franc bill — currently worth $1,018. The EU is making
the move because its 500-euro bill is exceedingly popular with money launderers,
but that decision doesn’t affect the Swiss because they, like Denmark, Sweden
and Norway, never adopted the euro and wisely elected to keep their own
currency. When center-left lawmaker Margret Kiener Nellen referenced the EU
move and wondered if Switzerland would do the same with its big bill, the
government said authorities know of no money laundering cases in which the huge
bill was a relevant factor. Swiss authorities said they have already taken
measures to limit the risk of cash being used for criminal purposes including
terror financing, and argued the franc doesn't have anywhere near the euro's
global significance. Despite Switzerland’s popularity as one of the top banking
options for the world’s financial elites due to its privacy and secrecy, the
government is accurate on that point and when it writes in a statement that,
"Switzerland is a country with a high wage and price level and also has a
marked culture of cash use, which justifies a higher denomination." It’s a
fair point for a country that claims pricey places such as Geneva and Zurich as
its own and further evidence why staying fiscally clear of the EU mess is
typically a wise choice……….
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