Shocked by the NFL ref fiasco? Where've you been the last 30 years?
(Cross-posted at Attytood)To every football fan out there who watched in shock and the opposite of awe Monday night as replacement refs stole a game from the Green Bay Packers even after the Seattle...
View ArticleBob Costas learns the right time to talk about guns in America: Never
Cross-posted here.Bob Costas is very, very silly man. The pro football world is still reeling from the tragedy in Kansas City, where 25-year-old Chiefs' linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend...
View ArticleDown in the boondocks
Cross-posted here: This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.....Our chief weapons in a more pinpointed attack will be better schools, and better health,...
View ArticleIt's time to marginalize a fringe group called the NRA
Cross-posted here:“The election season's overheated political rhetoric is adding fuel to the fire," [said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center.] The more polarized the...
View ArticleHow can you ask a woman to be the last woman to die for a mistake?
Cross-posted here.On Monday, President Obama hailed the pioneers who in 1848 first fought for women's rights at Seneca Falls.On Wednesday, Obama's Pentagon sent America's female troops charging up...
View ArticleThe long hot summer of 2013
I spent a couple of nights last week on the lookout for a cloud of rising smoke. From the chimney at the Vatican? No thank you -- there were already thousands of journalists around the globe fixated on...
View ArticleYes, the 43rd anniversary of Kent State does matter...now more than ever
Cross-posted at Attytood:The other day one of my blog trolls wrote something that actually made me laugh out loud. He was complaining about something I wrote and added, "at least it wasn't my 285th...
View ArticleAtlanta's Turner Field Is Dying -- And American Sanity Is Dying With It
Cross-posted at Attytood:I'm know I'm going to sound like an old man again, but I can remember 1997 like it was yesterday. I can almost taste it, smell it -- the time when a couple of Yankee kids named...
View ArticleI'm done with '60 Minutes' and its sponsors -- and you should be, too
Cross-posted at Attytood:For the majority of us who care about stuff -- whether it's politics, or the direction of the country...or the media that write about those things -- there is nothing more...
View ArticlePeggy Noonan writes the most ironic, un-self-aware column in the history of...
Cross-posted at Attytood:There's a reason that Gordon Gekko's famous speech scene in "Wall Street" -- "The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is...
View ArticleChris Christie: Male chauvinist pig
Cross-posted at Attytood:Memo to self: Don't take a three-day weekend if you're trying to stay on top of the Gov. Chris Christie beat. Since I last sat at my newsroom desk Wednesday night, New Jersey's...
View Article4 Dead Americans
Cross-posted at Attytood:Their killing shocked the nation, as it should have. Four innocent, God-fearing Americans from the Heartland, gunned down in cold blood by an armed militia. It's been a while...
View ArticleWhy not a national story? Philly cops accused of robberies, sex assaults, and...
Cross-posted at Attytood:It's now been more than six years since the night that Dagma Rodriguez, a 33-year mother of three from the rugged neighborhood of West Kensington, said that she was sexually...
View ArticleAmerica...What the Hell Is Wrong With Us?
Cross-posted at Attytood:A politician who's in a tough re-election fight deleted a Twitter posting yesterday because he thought would offend voters in his home state. I know, I know, these days...
View Article50 years ago, Philly erupted -- and the fuses are back again
Tomorrow (Thursday) marks the 50th anniversary of the worst outbreak of civil unrest in the modern history of Philadelphia. The three-day Columbia Avenue riot in the predominantly black neighborhood of...
View ArticleFast food, Ferguson and "heightening the contradictions" in 2014 America
Cross posted at Attytood:Supposedly, the term "heighten the contradictions" has its origin in the writings of Marx (Karl, not Groucho) and some of his later 20th Century acolytes who believed that the...
View ArticleHow To Get Away With Murder...in Ferguson
Cross-posted at Attytood:The shorter version of this week's news out of Ferguson is basically this: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. The grand jury investigation of the shooting of teenager Mike Brown,...
View ArticleHow Robert McCulloch indicted himself
Cross-posted at Attytood:Each and every minute felt like an hour. The first bulletin on Monday that the Ferguson grand jury had reached its decision -- and that it would be announced that night -- came...
View Article"Bodies upon the gears": The 50th anniversary of 417 words to inspire today's...
Cross-posted at Attytood: When you think about the sheer volume of speeches that are delivered on any given day -- from state legislatures to Rotary Clubs to dingy school auditoriums -- the thing that...
View ArticleTorture and Police Killings Cut From the Same Cloth of Injustice
Cross-posted at Attytood:America's snooze alarm went off again this week. Slowly, fitfully, people are starting to wake up from a long national slumber. Our psychic clock radio switched on this time to...
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