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1939 Baseball Hall of Fame induction class. Back row: Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler and Walter Johnson. Seated: Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack and Cy Young. Ty Cobb was late to the photo and is not pictured. Share on [...] Share on Facebook I don’t blog as frequently as I used to, but if you remember the olden days when JohnFN wasn’t busy raising a rambunctious 3-year-old, and wasn’t carrying on post-graduation while covering sports at a mid-metro, then you remember my favorite horse to beat was our current meritocracy, particularly the isolation of the middle class. The [...] What do you do when the Department of Defense’s Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute offers nine suggestions on how a bystander should nonviolently deal with rapists … and produce an instructional video to accompany it? Well, if you’re Counter Contempt’s David Stein, you mercilessly expose the DoD/DEOMI for the joke they are … and produce [...] Share on Facebook “16-year-old, Mary Cain, a high school junior, won the women’s mile and became the first high school student to win a national indoor or outdoor championship since Allyson Felix in 2003.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2013/03/04/mary-cain-will-lear-usa-track-field-indoor-championships/1961379/ You can see the race here, http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?video_id=80889-Womens-Mile-Mary-Cain-Wins-USA-Indoor-Track-and-Field-Championships-2013 This young lady is going places! This is the U.S. indoor championships and she’s running [...] I was going to post some highlights and link to the article (here’s a link, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/01/28/gun-laws-and-the-fools-of-chelm-by-david-mamet.html) but the highlights became the entire article! It’s David Mamet so that should be no surprise. For those of you who like to engage in debate with folks, post this to your Facebook page and dare anyone to refute [...] Director Christopher Nolan’s challenge in making his third Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” was simple enough – how do you top the untoppable? It’s a question that hovers over Rises like a shadow in the twilight. Success breeds its own set of challenges, and the challenge for Nolan, who directed what many consider [...] I’ve owned an assault rifle for 10 years. Fired it once. I planned on firing it more, specifically at whatever back-yard farm-field targets I could procure (watermelons, cans), but never got around to it. Ammo, in this day and age, is expensive, and so is time when you are a journalist with a full-time working [...] I just used the Amazon link for some Christmas gift purchases. If Amazon has anything you need at a good price please do the same. Floyd, Outlaw, Wankette, Eric and the others receive no compensation for their work here; work we all benefit from. In years when such purchases don’t offset their operating [...] The race topick up the pieces begins it seems. Sen. Marco Rubio said the way to turn around the nation’s struggling economy is not to raise taxes on the wealthiest individuals, but rather to make “poor people richer” as he visited this politically important state in a trip certain to stoke speculation about Rubio’s [...] If you think 2012 was wild, try 1936. That’s the closet mirror to Barack Obama’s re-election. FDR, struggling with a bombed-out economy under his watch (yet the public still blames on his predecessor), runs on a platform of class warfare and attacking business against a business candidate, who runs on a strictly economic platform. The [...] Control (2007) The demands of fame, a crumbling marriage and declining health take a toll on Ian Curtis, lead singer of the British band Joy Division. Director: Anton Corbjin. Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson. TV-MA. 3:45 PM, 2:00 AM EDT). Sundance Channel. Ian Curtis made the typical mistakes, but his poorly [...] Crime is up in Iraq. The criminal is some guy named Al and he killed 32 people today. Coordinated bomb attacks killed more than 32 people across Iraq on Sunday, the latest violence in an insurgency the government has failed to quell more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew. Violence in Iraq [...] Please Don’t Eat The Daisies (1960) A drama critic and his family try to adjust to life in the country. Dir: Charles Walters. Cast: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, Jack Weston, Margaret Lindsay. TV-G. 6:00 PM EDT. TCM. A good example of the raucous family comedies of [...] Share on Facebook The Fabulous Thunderbirds. I’ve been watching you for days, now baby… Share on Facebook Jeffrey Ross showed up at last night’s Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr in the above get up. He proceeded with this material as reported by Entertainment Weekly: The Hollywood venue was abuzz with Ross’ red carpet appearance. In a reference to one of the country’s biggest scandals of 2011,Ross had come dressed as [...] |
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