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Sixty Years Later, Robinson?s Courage Resonates More Than Ever
2007-04-15 13:16:17
With all the talk the past week of the courage and grace displayed by the Rutgers University women?s basketball team after being insulted by a morning radio host, I think it?s worth remembering the anniversary of the arrival on the national scene of a man who exhibited genuine courage in the face of some of the most vile and withering racist abuse ever addressed to an athlete. Jackie Robinson made his Major League debut sixty years ago this weekend. He survived and thrived for ten years following, leading the Brooklyn Dodgers to six World Series, including a win in 1955 against hated cross-town rivals the Yankees, played in six All-Star games, was decorated the first-ever Rookie of the Year award, and won the title of 1949 National League Most Valuable Player. Contrary to the popular myth, Jackie was not the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. Moses Fleetwood Walker played for several teams in the American Association and the International League from 1884 to 1889 before the ...
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While at Waffle House after a movie, Ashley and I catch a glimpse of humanity?s bleak future
2007-04-14 22:30:19
We went to the Weinberg Center last night to see The Gold Rush, which was an awesome experience and will be the subject of a forthcoming edition of Movies That Kick My Ass. On the way back to Ashley?s place, we stopped at Waffle House for dinner. I was maybe halfway through my bowl of chili when I saw the bus from the St. James school pull into the parking lot. St. James is this snobby private academy about halfway between Hagerstown and Sharpsburg. It?s apparently the oldest private school in the country, which I only know because it?s mentioned every time anyone with the slightest connection to the place does something newsworthy. Its campus is also the home of a very, very old fucking tree, so old it?s no longer safe to touch or even look at up close. They have an electronic security perimeter around this tree to keep the students from getting near it. So this herd of St. James kids comes in and just takes over the Waffle House. It was me and Ashley, and a few guys sitting at anothe ...
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CBS Corp. Fires Imus, Conquers Racism
2007-04-13 10:59:17
CBS Corp. Fires Imus, Conquers Racism NEW YORK ? CBS Corp., the parent company of radio station WFAN and syndication network Westwood One, announced yesterday that Don Imus had been fired from his position as host of the long-running Imus in the Morning program as a consequence of Imus referring to the majority-black women?s basketball team at Rutger?s University as ?nappy headed hos.? The removal of the 66-year-old former disc jockey from the airwaves marks the long-awaited victory over racial intolerance, CBS President Leslie Moonves said in his announcement of Imus?s termination. ?Long have we struggled in the United States to overcome the feelings of race-based prejudice and bigotry, and the countless injustices these feelings have caused,? Moonves said during a press conference announcing the decision yesterday afternoon, flanked by several prominent black religious and civil rights leaders. ?With the firing of Don Imus from his morning radio show, that struggle has finally reache ...
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So does that make today Columbus Day in Russia?
2007-04-12 13:06:35
On this date in 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to reach outer space. He completed one orbit of the Earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft and returned home a hero to millions of Russians, including the leaders of the Soviet government who immediately pushed Gagarin?s flight as proof of communism?s inevitable triumph over the capitalism of the U.S.-led western hemisphere. Nikita Khrushchev famously claimed that Gagarin had ?seen no God up there,? and the Soviets sent Gagarin on a tour of Europe and Asia to tout their achievement ? not just that they had shot the first man into space, but that they had done it before the United States. His exploitation as a tool for Soviet propaganda takes nothing away from Gagarin?s place in history. The guy was a hero, the first man in space. He deserves to be mentioned right alongside Neil Armstrong as a pioneer of manned spaceflight. He died in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances just seven years after his Vostok 1 voyage. In Russia the ...
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Hey, would you Vonnegut some lunch later, maybe?
2007-04-12 10:55:12
Kurt Vonnegut is dead, which sucks even more when I remember that Dan Brown and Nora Roberts are still alive. Vonnegut was a great writer not so much because he was a beautiful arranger of words, but because he actually had something the fuck to say. He was cynical and sarcastic and pessimistic about the world in general and humanity in particular, but that was okay because he was also funny as hell. Vonnegut could tell you the world was about to end in a flash of fiery chaos that would leave no soul unconsumed, and have you laughing ?til you shit your pants over it. And yet he tempered that black, ruthless cynicism with such compassion that he could not only leave you laughing, but encouraged. Joel Achenbach has a great piece on Vonnegut up this morning at his blog on the Washington Post?s website. Check that out. Have fun wherever you are now, Kurt. We?re sure as hell gonna miss you around here. ...
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More from Jerm, that rascal
2007-04-11 17:23:50
The 9/11 Truther who wrote me yesterday about my incidental denial of the ?inside job? theory in an American Chronicle article sent me another email this morning. Check this out for an example of the sort of rational, level-headed clear thinkers that comprise much of the 9/11 Truth movement: So all of the physics professors and demolition experts are wrong? The truth movement is going to go huge. Dozens of celebrities are coming forward soon and Mark Cuban is backing the upcoming Loose Change theater release. You and the other New World Order backers will be proven wrong very soon. You must be on the government payroll. Thanks for making that clear. He talks like every physics professor and demolition expert in the world is lining up on his side. And hold the fuck up ? there?s going to be a Loose Change theatrical release? Are you shitting me? If you want to prove us New World Order backers wrong (and by that I assume he means everyone who buys into the ludicrous premise that terroris ...
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What a wonderful country, where you have the right to be this spectacularly fucking wrong
2007-04-10 14:55:31
Since reviewing Loose Change was so much damn fun, I?m going to spend today shitting on and belittling the paradoxically dubbed 9/11 Truth Movement some more. I want to thank Jerm for giving me the idea. Jerm wrote me about an article I published on American Chronicle yesterday. The article was on the topic of Don Imus?s ongoing crucifixion at the hands of those bulwarks of morality and ethics, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and in the course of defending Imus I went off on a brief tangent about Rosie O?Donnell: Rosie O?Donnell is one of the most unlikable personalities on television (right there with Bill O?Reilly and Sean Hannity, for my money). I don?t find her funny or intelligent and I think the ?inside job? theory of 9/11 is ridiculous and pathetic. If ABC wants to fire her, that?s up to them, as it?s up to MSNBC and WFAN if they want to can Imus. There?s just something very troubling about wanting to remove people from the conversation for saying something insensitive or unpopul ...
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Hot XXX-tian Action!
2007-04-09 11:07:32
So yesterday Ashley tells me about this article on CNN.com and I think, ?Oh fuck, this is definitely my blog for tomorrow.? As we all know, Christians and porn go together like pancakes and sausage. And me making fun of the combination of Christians and porn? That?s the hot, gooey maple syrup, baby. Craig Gross, Christian minister and nosy douchebag, founded the website XXXChurch.com to help Christian men overcome their addictions to porn. An informal poll conducted by Gross found that 70% of Christians and 76% of pastors have some kind of porn addiction. Though since the poll was taken of people who only seconds before had typed ?XXXChurch.com? into their address bar, I?m not sure how reliable those figures are. Not that I?d be surprised. Some of the biggest pervs you?re likely to find are hardcore to the fuckin? bone Christians. You really think an 80-year-old man gets out of bed on Sunday morning and drags his already decaying ass to church just to hear a sermon on some obscure pass ...
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?Omit needless scenes, omit needless scenes, omit needless scenes!?
2007-04-06 21:48:00
I?m about a year and a half late to this party, but I finally rented and watched the new version of King Kong tonight. Ashley was reluctant to watch it and wound up sleeping through about two-thirds of it. It wasn?t good enough or shitty enough to inspire me to write a full-length review, but I do have a few observations. For starters, Ashley was right. Peter Jackson?s modus operandi in remaking Kong is to take the major sequences from the 1933 original and expand them beyond all justification. He?s got a first act that?s too long and a pretty terrific third act, actually; it?s the middle that drags on and on and on well past the point of anyone giving a fuck. The witty, resourceful filmmaker of Dead Alive and Bad Taste is gone, and the fat-headed bore who inflicted three endless Lord of the Rings movies on inexplicably admiring audiences is here to stay. As with his exhausting Lord of the Rings trilogy, for his King Kong Jackson employs an insistent ?More is More? strategy. Why say in ...
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The Shittiest Films Ever Made, No. 7: "The Neon Bible
2007-04-04 11:57:46
The Shittiest Films Ever MadeNo. 7: The Neon Bible Sometimes you go in expecting a film to be bad. Sometimes that?s the whole reason you see it in the first place. Lost in Space was like that for me. I knew I was in for an Akiva Goldsman-penned piece of TV-knockoff shit, but I saw it anyway so I could sit there and mock it and feel like a big man. It?s not the ones you expect to suck that get you; it?s the ones that catch you unawares that grind you down and leave you a trembling afterbirth of a human being, glancing at the screen through squinted, tear-soaked eyes, just begging God to end it ? the movie, your life, whatever ? just to let it be over, please. The Neon Bible is such a film. I followed an interesting thread to see this movie. Ashley bought this album a few weeks ago called The Neon Bible by The Arcade Fire. I wasn?t impressed by what I heard of it, but she liked it enough to find out that there was a novel by the same title written by John Kennedy Toole, the guy who wrote ...
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Opening Day and it's about fucking time
2007-04-03 09:49:08
Yesterday was Opening Day and even though the Yankees won and the Orioles and Red Sox both lost, after six months of nothing but football and basketball it still feels like a gulp of air following a season under water. It feels like spring is actually here now. Yesterday in the parking lot at college I saw two guys in the parking lot tossing a football back and forth. I drove on by, shaking my head, thinking, "Now I know how Moses felt when he came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and found the Israelites wantonly drinking and fucking and worshipping that golden calf."Actually I thought "Those fucking assholes." I made the Moses part up just now to be funny. ...
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