Strange New Respect is fleeting, and with regard to the NFL owners’ remarkable commitment to “social justice” over profits or patriotism, the NYT is determined it shall have wide-receiver speed: Beyond the appearance of unity, though, is a far different reality: The owners have done little to support players who protest to fight social injustice.Continue reading “All NFL all the time, without the annoying ex-jocks or football”
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More on the NFL
The military has long used spectator sports to target mostly young white men for recruitment. This is coupled with a strong emphasis on patriotism in such as truck commercials–appealing to the fathers of those same young men. After 9/11 and through the second Iraq invasion this grew in intensity and became just one more reason,Continue reading “More on the NFL”
A Note on the NFL
But for a shocking exposure to it last Thanksgiving, I haven’t watched the NFL on television for years as part of a deliberate decision to cut spectator sports entirely out of my life, finally. Football was the last to go. Objectively I love the game, even in its perverse aspects: its violence, its physical specialization,Continue reading “A Note on the NFL”
24:44 I am master of my domain. 25:40 Frapping and the Single Goy 26:55 Phillip Roth 30:05 Hillary’s Book 32:10 Regina Spektor song Laughing With 1:04:45 Make America White Again, after a fashion 1:08:50 Us, Us, Us, and Them, Them, Them…
Oregon Oddities
The hike around Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey in rural Oregon is fittingly peaceful and doesn’t feel like the geography around the Columbia River Gorge where we’ve done most of our hiking this (very) warm season. It isn’t dominated by the towering evergreens that are everywhere here. (Not so towering in our Gorge stompingContinue reading “Oregon Oddities”
Take my Culture, Please
Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles might be the funniest movie of all time, unfortunately. One of the more enduring anti-white, anti-American cultural tropes, the cool black guy (here leading a diverse gang in) outfoxing the dim white rednecks, around which the story is based, derives from this wellspring along with others. An enduring attitude can beContinue reading “Take my Culture, Please”
Next stop Chi Town, Lido put the money down…
They’re building the Barack Obama library on Chicago’s South Side where he started out as a community organizer. The project is being challenged by community organizers. They’re seeking some sort of comprehensive agreement of set asides for local activist groups. This common practice is something the Obama Administration effected from above when in office. Barry’s enthusiasmContinue reading “Next stop Chi Town, Lido put the money down…”
Torah Time
1994
The lineup for something called the JoCo Cruise does not inspire.
untethered 