Entries Tagged as 'Rants'

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Please just make it stop.

Please.
I haven’t written about politics on this blog in a fairly long time. There’s a reason for that. All it accomplishes is to piss off some readers who come here for the sports, and confirm all the beliefs of those who do come here for my liberal, commie-loving, viewpoints.
But mostly I haven’t written about politics [...]

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Oh, soccer …

English soccer fans rioted yesterday.
People’s faces were messed up, hundreds of beer bottles were broken and crooked, yellowing teeth littered the ground. None of these things had anything to do with the soccer riot. That’s just London on a Tuesday.
I could write, were I so inclined, about the emotional intensity of “big” games, and how [...]

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

White Power and the American Army

I usually try not to write posts that do little more than point you to better things that other people have written. But despite my preambles, this is essentially one of those posts.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report exploring Right-wing extremism in America. Specifically, the report mentioned disgruntled [...]

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Sanity at FOX News

I certainly had to see it to believe it, and I can only imagine that the same is true for many of you.
Apparently, Shepard Smith has been getting saner and saner by the day.
A while ago, he lost it on a co-anchor and a guest who were talking their way around the use of torture [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Sarah Palin told me so

Sarah Palin used to be entertaining.
I mean, she was the perfectly-cast Hollywood sideshow foil that made last year’s election so incredibly riveting. She was so good at being the election’s comic relief that watching Tina Fey imitate her was almost disappointing. It was impossible to play a Folksy Right Wing Nutjob character and get more [...]

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

A short post about leadership

Lead, transitive verb:  (1): to direct the operations, activity, or performance of <lead an orchestra> (2): to have charge of <lead a campaign> (3): to suggest to (a witness) the answer desired by asking leading questions b (1): to go at the head of <lead a parade> (2): to be [...]