February, 2015 archive
Motives for Malice 0
Paul Elbert offers ten reasons to “hate-watch” the Big Game. Here’s one; follow the link for the rest.
Remember in 2011, when an emotional Robert Kraft and Jeff Saturday shared a hug that symbolized the ending of the lockout? That hug came after Myra Kraft, Robert’s wife, passed away at the age 68. Not long after that, however, Kraft began dating dancer and actress Ricki Noel Lander, who’s young enough to be his granddaughter. That’s just creepy. Opposing Kraft is Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and owner of too many nice things already. Anyone partly responsible for Windows 8 is unworthy of being called a two-time world champion.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The Booman agrees with Rand Paul (!) about the hypocrisy of Jeb “Oh God Please Not Another” Bush.
There Is Hope 0
Pitchers and catcher report in three weeks.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It is comforting to know that our young are being taught politeness at an early age.
Albuquerque police say the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon.
More guns in the purse no doubt would have prevented this.
Obedience Is Mandatory 0
Anything else will come back to bite you.
This story has been going on for days in my part of the world and I have been trying to figure out how to blog about it, without success; I could not find a handle, because the smell of bigotry overcame me.
If you cannot be safe from the persons who are sworn to keep you safe, you cannot be safe.
The police chief says, “unreasonable.” I say, “racist.”
Selma and the deaths of Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner were not that long ago. They were within my lifetime, and hate has more lives than a cat.
QOTD 0
Duane Thomas, via Bob Molinaro, Sportswriter Extraordinaire:
If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come they’re playing it again next year?