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« Friday « September 28, 2007
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  1. {09282007}
  2. {06:53:30 PM}
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  1. QOTD: "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
    --Margaret Mead. So funny. And so true.
    06:53:30 PM
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« Friday « September 21, 2007
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  1. {09212007}
  2. {09:45:11 PM}
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  1. How will McNabb's long, strange Philly trip end?
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. McNabb didn't want to end it, telling the Philadelphia Daily News that he hoped to lead the charge among his fellow African-American quarterbacks to change the perception.His call to arms was rejected. In Baltimore, Steve McNair started his weekly news conference Thursday with these words: "No Donovan McNabb questions, please."In Nashville, it was worse. Vince Young basically told McNabb to quit crying.
    
    (First of all, Vince Young? That guy wins one big college football game and now he's the voice of civil rights and other thorny social dilemmas? Are we all just living in a bad movie? WTF!) Anyway... without going into a dissertation about whether McNabb was right or wrong for airing his opinions, the object lesson here, to me at least, is when you play the race card, make sure you can back it up with facts, examples, and concrete "for instances." Otherwise it will ring hollow, even in these hollow, superficial times that we all inhabit. I'm convinced that what McNabb said is what he truly feels. I'm also convinced that white supremacism is alive and well in the States, and that people who look like McNabb, and like me, are usually the target of that perverse human cancer. I've experienced it. I live it. But when you go on national media, you have to find a way to express your opinions within a crystal-clear context, because there are a lot of fools out there who will misinterpret you. I think he failed there. The reaction to his comments -- especially on talk radio, a mecca for morons [I know what you're thinking: like the blogosphere doesn't attract knuckleheads by the boatload itself ...and yet here you are, reading this... but I digress] -- on both sides (i.e. "is he right" or "is he wrong") were mostly predictable, banal, and illustrative of the fact that this country still isn't ready to have an honest discussion about race, especially when it comes to the Black problem. What I respect about McNabb in this instance is that he had the guts to state his heartfelt opinion, unvarnished and without nuance. It's a shame that there aren't more high profile, wealthy and influential people like him,. with guts like that, in other words, it's a shame there aren't more leaders.
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« Thursday « September 20, 2007
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  1. {09202007}
  2. {12:57:48 AM}
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  1. Pettitte grabs 200th win as Yanks close in on Red Sox (ESPN.com) Yankees edged the Baltimore Orioles 2-1 Wednesday night to complete a three-game sweep that pulled them within 1-1/2 games of first-place Boston. All those l003erz in Boston are quaking in their piss-soaked boots!
    12:57:48 AM
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« Saturday « September 15, 2007
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  1. {09152007}
  2. {03:41:28 AM}
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  1. O.J. Simpson called a suspect in theft
    
    (BaltimoreSun.com)
  2. O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia he believed was stolen from him. But police, who are investigating the incident as an armed robbery.
    
    I wish I could spell the word: schadenfreude...
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  3. O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia he believed was stolen from him. But police, who are investigating the incident as an armed robbery...."
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  1. {09152007}
  2. {03:20:49 AM}
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  1. Yankees deflate Red Sox with six-run eighth inning (ESPN.com) I don't know how the 2007 MLB season will end — and who does — but any time my Yankees can inflict pain on Red Sux Nation, I feel really good. There's no way to describe how much I despise everything about the Red Sux. Go Bombers.
    03:20:49 AM
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« Wednesday « September 12, 2007
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  1. {09122007}
  2. {09:28:27 AM}
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  1. Will This Be Belichick's Watergate?
    
    (Deadspin blog)
  2. [T]hat Belichick would be so brazen as to send a camera guy over to the Jets sideline to openly break the rules. If true, that's just a ballsy, glorious, tragically flawed move.
    
    This is what I love about sports in general, and the NFL in particular: it's a man's version of a soap opera that runs for about 25 weeks each year. Like a soap opera, it's mostly meaningless and yet sometimes irresistable, always filled with all sorts of improbable twists, reversals and surprises.
    
    Already, with the season less than six days old, we've one player facing possible lifetime paralysis (but now who miraculously may walk again, prayers out to him), we have the ongoing real-time circus that is Chad Johnson, we have the Brady Quinn affair in Cleveland, which includes a QB who started for one team three days ago but was traded just yesterday. And now, we have this: Videotape-gate. All around us, the world is falling apart, wars are raging, global warming is rearranging the deck chairs in our titanic environment, and all they can talk about on a dozen TV networks, a hundred other radio talk shows, and countless blogs -- like this one -- is whether or not the Patriots cheated against the Jets last Sunday. At this point, I'm leaning toward this blast in response: "Who cares?" It's all entertainment anyway. I'm still not unconvinced that the outcomes of these things that pass for games aren't scripted to some degree, beginning with way the league schedule is created. Yesterday was the sad anniversary of 9/11/2001, and that season, who won the Super Bowl, at a time when the country was trying to heal and regain so-called normalcy? The Patriots! Now isn't that patriotic, you wartime consigliere, and just a little too perfect? That the Patriots got to the big game that year was fishy, just ask the Oakland Raiders about the tuck rule.
    
    Sport's is all about selling tickets and merch and overpriced satellite TV packages, right? If you were writing a story that you wanted people to buy, you'd have to create heroes and villians. That's exactly what's going on here: Belichick is being painted as a villian. But is any of this real? And who is to be the hero in this season's screenplay? Wouldn't we all feel like fools if we found out that we've been watching an elaborate charade for years? How the NFL rules on this alleged cheating will tell me a lot about whether this is real or play-acting: if the League forfeits the Patriots' win, then it's real enough; anything else leaves open the door for skeptics.
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« Tuesday « September 11, 2007
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  1. {09112007}
  2. {06:41:36 PM}
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  1. Net Usage Index (Akamai.com) The Net Usage Index for News enables users to monitor global news consumption 24 x 7, seeing in real-time the impact of current events on online media consumption.
    06:41:36 PM
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How will McNabb's long, strange Philly trip end?

(ESPN.com)

« Thursday « September 20, 2007

« Saturday « September 15, 2007

O.J. Simpson called a suspect in theft

(BaltimoreSun.com)

« Wednesday « September 12, 2007

Will This Be Belichick's Watergate?

(Deadspin blog)

« Tuesday « September 11, 2007

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