The Minnesota Twins not long ago managed to bamboozle politicians into helping them with stadium financing - including bypassing a law requiring a referendum on such things in the to-be-afflicted area. Now the Vikings want a similar screw-the-people deal for themselves. As anyone who know me at all has figured out, I am against this. If the " ( Read more... )

* Make your own Penn State/State Pen joke. *

As those who know me know, I am not a sports fan and tend to think of anyone involved with such as more likely of being guilty of something than the averages of probability would indicate. Note that I am not defending what happened. I am explaining how I think the failure mode worked ( Read more... )

This cartoon sums it up. Meaningless stuff, gone on about.

I cannot help but think of Dr. Seuss whenever I hear the name "vuvuzela." It sounds like something the Whos would play on Christmas morning.

No such luck, I know. It seems like they ought to be, as they've been in the news for far too long.

Oh yeah, new icon. Seems fitting in a few ways.

While I am of the opinion that a lot of the controversy around sports team and mascot names is contrived nonsense, this article brings up a question that is oddly absent from the article. Never mind any problems with the name PorkChop. Why wasn't Ferrous, which had more submissions or nominations, chosen in the first place?

I am not a gamer. I am even less of a sports fan. Thus I find this rather amusing.

I suppose it's been long enough now that I can tell it. I very nearly got mixed up with a really bad crowd. This group seemed to live on hate of the other and believed, really truly believed, only in their own movement. Dissent was not tolerated. I was very fortunate to have escaped this movement.

I hadn't intended attending their rally. I ( Read more... )

I didn't watch last night's baseball game, but whichever team anyone might have wanted to win, there is one good thing about how it worked out. At least now we should be spared any further annoying comparison of the next batch of games to the Presidential election. I hadn't figured the Presidential election could have gotten any more annoying or ( Read more... )

Football Fans for Truth.