- There is so much wonderful and ironic in the amusing tale of Mississippi State Sen. Chris Massey. Massey, who spends his days accomplishing nothing while wearing a suit and tie like a good elected legislator, spends his off time alongside his father, brawling with landscapers in a place ironically known as Olive Branch. He and his father, who are the homebuilders for a subdivision, had a dispute with two landscapers and blocked the road so their adversaries couldn’t pass by. According to the landscapers, Massey and his father spit in the face of one of the landscapers, causing the landscaper to push Massey and prompting Massey’s father to reach into a nearby truck and grab a shovel. From there, in a development that would make Ron Burgundy and his news team proud, the situation escalated quickly and a tire iron and other lawn equipment were soon weaponized. The landscaper even claimed that the father, Jake Massey, mentioned a gun he had in his car. All of this happened as the homeowner whose yard was the setting for the brawl looked on. Witnesses claimed that the Massey man tried to get others to jump in on the fight, behavior that doesn’t really reflect well on a guy who is - wait for it - the chairman of the legislature’s ethics committee. In the end, three of those involved in the brawl, including Massey, are facing aggravated assault charges. Massey issued a statement insisting he has “committed no crime and have great confidence that once the true facts are known that I will be completely exonerated.” Stay optimistic, Likes to Fight Guy, stay optimistic……..
- While fans wait for the successor to R&B singer Frank Ocean’s critically-acclaimed debut 'Channel Orange,' they’re desperate for any indication of when the new album will come their way. The latest hint may be found in an extremely unlikely place, as eagle-eyed fans spotted a cleverly disguised introductory paragraph about Ocean in a Calvin Klein ad. The ad, on the company’s website, contains source code suggesting what Ocean may have been doing the past few years rather than releasing his second album. The album, expected to be titled “Boys Don’t Cry,” was initially expected to drop last year and its delay his only increased excitement over the project. In the source code for the ad is the sentence, "He has published a magazine and worked on a novel while continuing to perfect his highly anticipated second album." That fits with the theory that a magazine titled “Boys Don't Cry” will be published alongside the new album and it also jibes with Ocean’s previous comments from 2012 that he "might just write a novel next.” While only small bits of information are known about the new album, it is thought to have been recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London and back in March, Ocean’s producer Malay said that the album was “maybe a month away.” That month has grown longer and longer, with no concrete data available on when it will actually become a reality……...
- There are a lot of activities that aren’t allowed in strict societies such as Saudi Arabia, but a dog pageant wouldn’t seem to be one of the happenings that the powers that be won’t allow to go on. Yet if you believe that, then you’re sorely mistaken. Two Saudi men have reportedly been arrested for promoting a dog pageant in the kingdom, where owning a canine for a pet is forbidden. These rebels promoted their planned contest on social media using the hashtag “most beautiful dog in Jeddah,” unveiling a plan in which the 10 best dogs would be recognized, with the top three owners getting prizes in a ceremony scheduled to coincide with the Eid festival, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. However, social media is a notoriously difficult place to conceal illegal activities and when Saudi authorities learned of the event, they quickly shut it down and arrested the organizers, who face unspecified legal action. City officials posted their own social media message mockingly using the promoters’ “most beautiful dog” hashtag to notify people that the event was canceled. Dogs cannot be owned as pets in Saudi Arabia and other places in the Muslim world because they are seen as unclean, yet cats and dogs remain popular with many citizens. It’s a dicey setting in which so-called “morality police” watch for and report on dog owners and where trying to put a tiara on a good-looking dog is a reason to be thrown in jail……….
- The Olympics are inching ever closer and with each step toward the Games comes another twist in one of the ongoing doping scandals swirling around various nations and their athletes. Russia has gotten a lot of heat and a ban on its track athletes for the Rio Olympics, but Kenya is closing quickly and for the country that has been a dominant force in distance running for decades, it’s only fitting. The current drama centers on Federico Rosa, a manager who was released on bail while Kenyan police investigate him for allegedly providing banned substances to another runner as far back as 12 years ago. Rosa has at least one supporter in world 1,500-meter champion Asbel Kiprop, who defended his manager against doping accusations and said he was being "accused falsely." Kiprop posted a statement on social media advocating for his manager. "I have worked with Federico Rosa since 2008. I will work with Rosa to my retirement. I will stand out for the truth," Kiprop said in his statement. Kenya has been beset by a series of doping scandals in the past four years and the country’s track and field team was already under a microscope with Rio approaching. That will happen when you’ve had around 40 runners banned for doping since the 2012 Olympics, four senior federation officials facing allegations of corruption and your drug-testing program suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Rosa is under fire largely due to accusations made by Elijah Kiprono Boit, a former runner who competed at the 2001 and 2004 world youth championships. The details are a bit murky, but Rosa is accused of helping administer prohibited substances to Boit and conspiring to injure him through doping in a period from 2004 to 2008. ……...
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