- When you’re staring down a life of retirement filled with
lots of time at home with the ol’ ball and chain, formerly unpalatable options suddenly
begin to look a lot better. At least that’s the outlook of Kansas resident
Lawrence Ripple, who pleaded guilty in Kansas City, Kansas, to a federal bank
robbery count and is now staring down up to 20 years in prison, but that’s not
the real attention-grabber here. No, that would be the logic Ripple used when
explaining to law enforcement why he, seven decades into his time on Earth,
chose now to launch himself headfirst into a life of crime. According to an FBI
agent, Ripple had argued with his wife earlier and told her in writing he'd
"rather be in jail than at home." See, this is why they tell you to
never drive angry, text or tweet while angry or go to a bank, give the teller a
note demanding cash and warning you have a gun and then grab $3,000 before
taking a seat in the lobby before informing a security guard that you’re the
"guy he was looking for” while angry. You’re bound to do things you regret
and once you calm down, it might occur to you that you could have done a lot
saner things, such as moved out, filed for divorce, had an affair or even
gotten into a bar fight to blow off steam, none of which are going to land you
20 years behind bars. Even with the hate-filled explanation Ripple gave to the
FBI, his wife still accompanied him to court, although maybe the experience was
a dose of revenge porn for her………
- It would be fair to say that new University of Oregon
football coach Willie Taggart’s human resources skills need improvement. Taggert
was hired in December to lead the suddenly downtrodden Oregon football program
and coming off a double-digit win season at South Florida, he looked like a
good hire. It’s his own hires that aren't exactly panning out for the Ducks, a
fact driven home over the weekend as Oregon co-offensive coordinator and tight
end coach David Reaves was arrested by the Eugene Police and charged with
driving under the influence. That came literally four days after Reeves was
officially hired and subsequently, the process to terminate his employment with
cause has commenced, according to the school. "University of Oregon
assistant football coach David Reaves was arrested last night and charged with
Driving Under the Influence by members of the Eugene Police Department,"
Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens said in a news release. "Reaves has
been placed on administrative leave and the process to terminate his employment
with cause has commenced. The University has high standards for the conduct of
employees and is addressing this matter with the utmost of seriousness."
About the whole high standards part….where were those standards a week ago,
when the Oregon athletic department suspended strength and conditioning coach
Irele Oderinde for a month without pay after three Oregon football plays were
hospitalized following offseason workouts? Taggart needs to start hiring people
who a) don’t get arrested within a week and b) don’t pose a significant threat
to the general well-being of his players……….
- In Colombia, one has to be willing to go anywhere to enjoy
a good meal, even if that anywhere is an all-female prison that’s less “Orange
Is The New Black” and more “Master Chef.” It’s the ladies-only location of San
Diego prison in the popular Caribbean tourist town of Cartagena, where the
city’s trendiest new restaurant has been serving up gourmet meals since
December and packing in the hungry customers even though the people serving the
meals spend much of their time locked inside 8-by-8 cells, cleaning toilets and
trying to avoid fights in the exercise yard. Yes, it’s a unique experiment
intended to promote the inmates' rehabilitation while also shining a
much-needed light on Colombia's neglect of the country's soaring prison
population. The restaurant is called Interno — Spanish for "inmate — and
it’s a South American take on the InGalera restaurant at a penitentiary in
Milan, Italy. Interno serves up dishes such as seabass ceviche and a tabbouleh
salad made of Andean quinoa, with some of Colombia's top chefs serving up
recipes for the inmates to make. Patrons dine on a patio at the
minimum-security prison, the same patio where inmates used to consume prison
gruel on disposable foam trays. To spice up the atmosphere, there’s a
wall-sized mural and pink tassels hanging from metal bars, all accented by
meals served by inmates who must sleep on the floor due to overcrowding. The
jail's director, Ramiro Cuadro, credited outside funding for enabling programs
like the restaurant, which is an initiative by Teatro Interno, a Colombian
foundation led by TV actress Johana Bahamon that holds theater workshops in
prisons across the country. Famous chefs prepped inmates for the experience by
running workshops teaching them how to make bread and whip up fancy desserts. Twenty
inmates stuck with the program and now, they’re brought fine dining to cell
block D……..
- New decade, new leading lady, same damn Hollywood. In
other words, time for another sequel in an existing movie franchise, one that
requires no new concepts and can subsist on more ass-kicking, stilted dialogue
and subpar acting. Yes, it’s a new Tomb Raider film, which has officially begun
production. It’s the third adaptation of the successful video game franchise,
which debuted in 1996, and it’s slated to hit theaters next March. This third
take will follow two Tomb Raider movies that saw Angelina Jolie play the main
character in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and 2003’s Lara Croft Tomb Raider:
The Cradle of Life. There is no officially announced title for the new film,
but Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, who also directed the 2015 catastrophe film
“The Wave,” confirmed the start of production with a photo on his Instagram
account. He posted a picture of a clapper board from the set, where Alicia
Vikander, who won an Oscar last year for her role in “The Danish Girl,” will
play Lara Croft. She beat out Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley, who was
considered the frontrunner to play the title role. Add in “The Hateful Eight”
star Walton Goggins as the main villain of the film and Daniel Wu, who
previously starred in “Into The Badlands,” as a ship captain who helps Croft in
her mission to find her father, and you have a cast that can take what won't be
a great script and turn it into a hunk of rote, canned action move excess………
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