- The NHL postseason is a long, grueling grind with at-times
questionable hygiene involved - scraggly, unruly playoff beards, anyone? - but
rarely does a person’s stank breath factor into the equation. Apparently, bad
breath is a topic of conversation in the Stanley Cup Finals between the
Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins, at least according to Nashville All-Star
P.K. Subban. After Subban and fellow All-Star Sidney Crosby squared off as Subban
approached the Penguins captain from behind and spoke to him at a close
distance during a Game 3 that saw the two teams combine for 78 penalty minutes,
including five game misconducts, Subban explained why he got in the Penguins
star’s grille. "He told me my breath smelled, but I don't know,"
Subban said. "I used Listerine before the game. I thought my breath
smelled great. So I don't know what he's talking about." The odds that
Crosby simply made a crack about Subban’s breath would seem low, but sharing
exactly what was said on the ice isn’t usually the way players operate,
electing to leave the exact wording and context of someone’s remarks between the
two of them. Maybe Crosby was upset with Subban’s mouth after the Predators
beat the Penguins 5-1 to cut the defending champions' series lead to 2-1, given
that prior to the contest, Subban boldly proclaimed that Nashville would win
Game 3 at home. His team backed up his words and the two men will get more
chances to settle their differences Monday night in Game 4, but Listerine alone
may not be enough to solve this one……..
- Ignorant ass hats live everywhere. Give them time, access
to social media and issues on which they can moronically speak out and they
will reveal themselves, just like the former head of South Africa's main
opposition party has done in earning potential suspension from party activities
following tweets in which she said colonialism had some positive results. Espousing
support for a practice in which a country takes over control of, occupies and
economically exploits another nation is rarely a good idea, which means it
should surprise no one that there was a massive uproar over Helen Zille's
comments. The backlash underscored the challenges facing the Democratic
Alliance, whose roots lie in white liberal opposition to apartheid decades ago.
While the party has made strides and achieved large gains in local elections
last year, the ruling African National Congress continues to downplay it as
merely a representative of South Africa's white minority. Zille, who just
happens to be white, is not really helping the party’s cause when she tweets
that the colonial legacy was not only negative, citing "our independent
judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc." Given that South
Africa held its first all-race elections after the end of white minority rule
in 1994, race is kind of a sensitive issue for its people. Zille is now premier
of the opposition-controlled Western Cape province, but her remarks damaged the
party and undermined reconciliation efforts in South Africa, said Mmusi
Maimane, a black who replaced Zille as party leader. "We live in a fragile
democracy, which means our public representatives must, at all times, be
sensitive to the legitimate anger that people still feel about our past and its
legacy," Maimane said. As a result, party leaders have decreed that Zille
should be "suspended from all party-related activities until such time as
her disciplinary hearing is concluded," but she’s standing her ground and
(stupidly) refusing to resign……..
- Nothing drums up interest in your next album quite like
suggesting it will be your last. Donald Glover, a.k.a. rapper Childish Gambino,
used his set at the Governor’s Ball in the United Kingdom to tease fans with
the possibility that his next project will represent his exit from his career
as a recording artist. Before performing ‘Baby Boy’ from his most recent album
‘Awaken, My Love!,’ Glover dedicated the track to his son, Legend, but also
suggested that his most recent album could be the set-up for his career closer
- whenever it would come. “I’ll see you for the last Gambino album,” he told
the crowd. The proclamation shouldn’t come as a huge surprise given that Glover
has previously expressed a desire to step away from his Childish Gambino
persona and perhaps focus more on his acting, producing and other endeavors
that could be more lucrative than being a rapper. Of course, all of this could
merely be one man thinking out loud and bandying about one possible career move
and weighing it out as the world listens, or it could be a savvy businessman
who knows that keeping fans wondering and believing that they will never hear
another album from him is a great way to sell more downloads of said album.
Glover also wouldn’t be the first musician to claim that he’s retiring from the
industry only to later double back and release more music, so placing too much
weight on this not-really-a-proclamation proclamation isn't wise…….
- Representing the disabled doesn’t always mean a person is
a good, decent human being who cares about those society so often dismisses or
overlooks. Take as Exhibit A Kentucky disability attorney Eric Conn, a man who stole
$600 million from the federal government and bribing a judge and then, after pleading
guilty just a few months ago, violated the conditions of his bond by removing
his electronic monitoring device late last week. It’s a shocking turn for a con
artist who was ordered to pay back tens of millions of dollars and whose sentencing
was scheduled for next month to go on the lam, prompting the U.S. District
Court to issue a warrant for his arrest. David Habich, general counsel for the
FBI’s Louisville office, said that Conn’s “whereabouts are currently unknown,”
which is a bit alarming because this is a guy who clearly loves the spotlight.
He started his practice in 1993 and has since built one of the most lucrative
disability firms in the country, billing himself as “Mr. Social Security” and
cranking out a series of over-the-top TV commercials in which he made
outlandish promises. His illegal empire came tumbling down when federal
investigators uncovered he had been bribing a doctor and a judge to approve
disability claims based on fake medical evidence. Faced with a mountain of
evidence, he struck a March plea deal in which he agreed to pay the federal
government $5.7 million and to reimburse Social Security $46 million. Not only
that, a federal judge ordered Conn to pay $12 million in damages and $19
million in penalties to the government and two former Social Security employees
who tried to expose the scheme. One has to imagine that even as he agreed to
that deal, Conn(artist) was already making plans for his great escape……..
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