My reactions to some news coverage of the most highly anticipated non-happening of the year. Continue reading
Peter Gammons (Flickr/Trev Stair) Sagely baseball writer Peter Gammons, asked by MLB Network analyst and former big-league pitcher Mitch Williams whether he will now vote for Mark McGwire’s induction into the Hall of Fame: I think it’s going to be … Continue reading
Tennis player Serena Williams made more headlines with the tirade that caused her elimination from the recent U.S. Open than she would have if she had simply won the tournament. I’d post the video of the incident if it were … Continue reading
Well, sort of betraying them. I know, I know… you’re thinking, “Hold on, this blog has principles?” Don’t be alarmed. We can have fun anyway.
In this blog, I aim to avoid what used to be known as player hating (I’d spell it in the street dialect form, e.g., playa-hatin’, but who am I kidding). I say “used to,” because I suspect the term has passed out of fashion; unfortunately I don’t know what expression may have replaced it. The point is, a fundamental characteristic of our National Miscourse™ is the cheap, lazy rhetorical default of saying that everything sucks. For examples of this, I would reference the vast majority of the blogosphere. Therefore, I strive to remain solidly in the remaining minority of bloggers by devoting a large proportion of my writing to things I want to praise; and when I must indict, always including a thorough reasoning for my disapproval.
Kind of a lengthy preface for link-blogging Dickipedia, a site that made me laugh pretty hard when I found it this morning. It’s a funnier (IMO) offshoot of the comedic news site 23/6, and, it should be noted, not an actual wiki but a parody of one. Continue reading
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