Entries from March 2007

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

An ugly end to a fine beginning

For all of you who haven’t seen it, Jorge Garbajosa’s leg injury is available here:
At NBA.com’s video site.
(You’ll have to endure a 20-second commercial before it starts).
I’ve seen clips of lots of injuries that look as bad — or worse — than this one. But it’s different when you see it happen to player you [...]

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

'Ten years ago … on a cold dark night …'

I’ve never been one of those love-sport-for-the-violence kind of fans. I’ll watch a hockey fight, if it happens, but most of the time I’m disappointed by them. (Note: except for that Belak-Janssen fight last week, that was some good, passionate stuff). The only boxing I enjoy watching is old footage of heavyweights and I can’t [...]

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Snoop Dogg is not conducive to the public good.

I am sure that Mr. Dogg is devastated that the welcoming arms of Mother Britain will no longer gather him and his posse into her bountiful bosom.
He has been denied entry to the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, P. Diddy is free to come and go as he please. So Londoners who bought tickets for that double [...]

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Well, fuck!

Who would have thought that Al Gore would completely recover from a presidential election being swiped from his meaty, grasping fingers, run the gamut of talk shows while giving his shoulders the ‘oh-well’ shrug, put up with the general public making fun of him and characterizing as a humble doofus of a politico loser who [...]

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Update: At least one dude cares

You might remember the case of the little Canadian boy whose family was stuck in a Texas detention centre. The kid wrote Stephen Harper for help. Yeah, like THAT was gonna happen.
Happily, someone less impotent and cozy with U.S. anti-terror czars stepped in on their behalf and the little boy is now on his way [...]

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Barack Obama is magical!

I’m way too busy to give this a fully sarcastic appreciation, but suffice to say I’m seriously considering starting a blog dedicated solely to the phenomenon that is Barack Obama in the Mainstream Press as a Black Presidential Candidate.
So now, not only is Obama an articulate African-American who rails against free speech for pedophiles, forgets [...]