“Are you ready to rumble?” As I recall that how the W.W.E. announcer introduced wrestlers to fans. Everyone knows professional wrestling is fake. People pay money to watch it, because it’s entertaining. I wonder when Portland — long a scene of slugfests between freaks of the [...]
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GOP congressman visits school and tells kids to defy mask policy
A Republican congressman from Virginia is telling high school students to disobey their school’s mask policy and refuse to wear masks. Rep. Bob Good (bio here, photo below), who represents a mostly rural district abutting West Virginia, spoke to a high school government class on Thursday, October [...]
September 12th, 2021 - 6:21 pm § in Misc.
Football fans save falling cat
First a frightening scene, then a stadium erupting in cheers, when a cat that dangled, then fell, from the upper deck of a Miami stadium on Saturday, September 11, 2001, was caught by fans in the lower seats who improvised a net from an American flag. Read story here, and watch video below. The sto[...]
April 22nd, 2021 - 10:36 pm § in Misc.
Is this climbers’ club getting too politically correct?
The American Alpine Club, one of America’s oldest (founded in 1902) and largest (24,000+ members) organizations devoted to the climbing sports (read about them here; their website is here), is launching an initiative it refers to as “rethinking” route names, which apparently was se[...]
September 17th, 2020 - 4:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
University of Georgia keeps football and bans voting
The University of Georgia, to protect its students, banned on-campus voting and tailgating at football games. This obviously was a tough decision for a school ranked #13 nationally in tailgating (see ranking here). It didn’t eliminate football games or fraternities, although the university dec[...]
May 19th, 2020 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
What will happen to UW and WSU athletics?
The University of Washington and Washington State University athletic departments are run by Jen Cohen and Pat Chun, respectively. As athletic directors, their job duties embrace budgets, which obviously have been impacted by Covid-19 containment measures. It’s still unknown to what extent UW [...]
March 15th, 2020 - 1:31 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Jeff Bezos REMAKES Hong Kong
A NEW YEAR SURPRISE! Jeff Bezos, appearing in a made for Prime TV video, has joined together with Presidents Trump and Xi to announce that Hong Kong will now be managed by the Seattle mega retail company. The announcement was made from the decks of the Octopus, the magnificent Megayacht previously o[...]
November 22nd, 2019 - 12:56 am § in Misc.
Should Dead Paul Allen Own the Seahawks?
Bob Condotta at the Seattle Times just wrote a piece on whether Jeff Bezos should buy the Seattle Seahawks. I have a different question. Why and how should any dead man be able to own a football team? Since Paul Allen’s death on October 2018, the Seahawks have insisted the team is not [...]
How the UW Could Fix the Emmert Mess
The scandals surrounding former UW President Mark Emmert began before he came here and were deepened before he left for his real job as NCAA commissioner. The Washington Post calls NCAA President Mark Emmert “the lord of a feudal state that knows its time is over. “ My two cents: Colle[...]
February 19th, 2019 - 11:54 am § in Uncategorized
Alabama editor urges KKK to “ride again” and lynch Democrats
Update: Racist owner hires black female editor to take paper “in a new direction,” but will retain ownership, NBC reports. Goodloe Sutton, who began working for a small-town newspaper in Linden, Alabama, in 1964 and inherited it from his father in 1985, has a long history of publishing r[...]