- The Cleveland Browns are historically bad at drafting
players - unless you count their ability to successfully draft future members
of the NFL’s substance abuse program. In that pursuit, perhaps no one excels
quite like the Browns, having selected the perennially
suspended-for-drug-violations receiver Josh Gordon - still not allowed back
onto the field by the league - and being the ones who foolishly overreached
with the eighth overall selection by the Cleveland Browns in the 2014 NFL draft
to nab former Oklahoma State cornerback Justin Gilbert, who played three
completely forgettable seasons for the Browns, recording just 42 tackles and
one interception over that time. His performance has been so lackluster that
he’s now free-agent cornerback Justin Gilbert, although him being out there for
any team to sign matters a lot less now that he’s been suspended without pay
for at least one year for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Teams
tend to be much less enthusiastic about signing players who can't actually, you
know, play a single game for them this coming season and while Gilbert was
traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers before the 2016 regular season, he barely saw
the field, recorded three tackles in minimal action and was released in
February. In other words, he’s still firmly anchored in reputation to the team
that stupidly drafted him and proved that once again, it has no idea what a
first-round draft pick actually looks like, but definitely knows how to find a
guy who can’t pass a random offseason drug test………
- Much to the surprise of no one, police in Argentina have
found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history in a
hidden room in a house near the capital, Buenos Aires. Argentina has long been
known as one of the South American nations that was a haven for Nazis following
the fall of the Third Reich, so stumbling upon relics that include a bust
relief of Adolf Hitler and magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with
swastikas in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires,
stuns no one. All told, 75 objects were found and authorities believe they are
originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
"Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces," Argentine
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said, noting that some pieces were
accompanied by old photographs. "This is a way to commercialize them,
showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of
him with the objects." There were plenty of creepy, disturbing items
Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, including toys
that featured a large statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika, a Nazi
hourglass and a box of harmonicas. Oh, and there’s a photo negative of Hitler holding
a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes and authorities say
they’ve gotten confirmation from historians that it is the very magnifying
glass that Hitler was using. This find was set in motion when authorities found
artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires, after which
Interpol began following the collector and with a judicial order raided the
house on June 8, finding the items stowed away in a secret room accessed
through a hidden passageway hidden behind a large bookshelf…….
- After “Sherlock” came to an unexpectedly early end
following the conclusion of its fourth season back in January, the question
quickly became what’s next and for at least some of those involved with the
popular BBC series, that question has been answered. The writing and production
team behind “Sherlock” are set to reunite to work on a new Dracula-themed
miniseries. That means “Sherlock” creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss –
along with producer Sue Vertue – are looking onward and upward, as Vertue’s
Hartswood Films will produce the new version of Dracula, which will be
structured similarly to the miniseries format “Sherlock” utilized with
feature-length episodes. Moffat and Gatiss will take plenty of inspiration from
(and ostensibly creative liberties with) Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic novel and
their finished product will hit the airwaves of the BBC some time in the near
future. What isn't clear is whether the new series will be set in the times in
which its source material was written, or if Moffat and Gatiss will set the
events of Dracula in the present day, as they did with their spin on “Sherlock.”
The answer to that and other non-pressing questions will have to wait for a
while, as Moffat and Gatiss are both working on separate projects at present
and won't be able to devote their full energies to all things vampire until
those solo efforts are wrapped up…….
- Because #somepeopleshouldnotbeparents. For today’s
evidence that many should take a pass on procreating, meet Alabama residents
Michael Trosclair and Shari Tremba, who were in an odd situation that saw them
make a long trip north to Indiana for a work conference and there, their tale
took an ugly turn that in all fairness could be a blessing for their child
because it might shine a light on the overall incompetence of her parents
without doing any irreparable damage to her - hopefully. The child was toted to
an Indianapolis bar with mom and dad, who decided that an Indianapolis bar was
a great place to take an infant, causing fellow drunks to look on in horror as
Tremba drank and smoke while breastfeeding her child. Nothing says maternal
instinct quite like feeding your child as you pour nicotine, tobacco and
alcohol into your body, so it’s absolutely shocking that these amazing parents
were taken into custody and charged with neglect of a dependent in a situation
that endangers the dependent - on top of a public intoxication charge.
"Partying was more important than their child," a detective wrote in
an affidavit. What a proud moment it must have been for all involved when
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were dispatched to the
Wild Beaver Saloon early in the morning following reports of a woman asking
customers for beer because she had apparently run out of beer money and
possibly blown right through the budget she had to feed her poor child with
something other than fuel from her toxic body. Once again, read this and
remember that it is perfectly OK for two people to care deeply about each
other, want to be in a committed relationship….AND NOT BRING ANY CHILDREN INTO
THIS WORLD FROM THAT RELATIONSHIP………
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