Bottled anger

[level_head]

A couple of months ago, this basketball fan was writing about some bottles thrown during the game. He described this as an "ugly incident":Kentucky's dramatic 81-75 overtime victory over Mississippi State last night was marred by an ugly incident before the final buzzer in which fans threw water bottles onto the court. Official Mike Kitt and

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[marmoe]

Looks like Tea Party members are better at keeping their cool in the face an agent provocateur. I presume quite a few of the protestors allegedly told to leave "his country" by that man were native Americans.

[marmoe]

P.S.: I don't condone this violence. Unfortunately, over here I'm used to behavior like this and worse.

[level_head]

I presume quite a few of the protestors allegedly told to leave "his country" by that man were native Americans.

It's possible, of course, but it does not strike me as likely.

There's one subtlety to this. The racist group "La Raza" ("The Race") is quite active in this debate, and insists that all of southwest US be given to them because the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) was invalid because it was a treaty to settle and end a war.

Amusingly, the country of Mexico acquired the same land from Spain three decades before -- in a treaty (the Treaty of Cordoba, 1821) to settle and end a war.

So -- if such treaties are to be considered invalid, Arizona never belonged to the nation of Mexico.

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[antayla]

Huh, so that's what "Semana de la Raza" means... "Week of the Race." My community college held that event last week. Of course, they translated it "Week of the People." Celebrating Latino culture, of course.

[deckardcanine]

When you started this post, I thought, "He doesn't usually talk about sports news. How is he going to call the reports into question -- or defend the reported behavior?" I'm kinda glad that wasn't the case.

Heh, I've seen all those cartoons already.

[level_head]

I am not a regular purveyor of political cartoons -- though I certainly appreciated the great majority of the work of Cox and Forkum.

The cartoons often oversimplify things -- but sometimes they crystallize a lot of different bits into a graspable and correct gestalt.

And you're right, I am not much of a sports enthusiast, though the lack of television is connected with this. It's hard to say which way that went--but not being a sports fan made a lack of television less of an issue.

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[deckardcanine]

The cartoons often oversimplify things

Editorial cartoons in general are about two steps up from bumper stickers in that regard.