Tomorrow night is the most exciting night of the year, the Annual Santa Anita Jockeys vs. Holy Angels School Students Charity Basketball Game!
From the monthly archives:
February 2014
Over the last couple of months I’ve been compulsively watching coverage of #Bridgeghazi, analyzing Chris Christie as he explains and, well, lies. Something struck me when he was talking about the accusations, and about the friends and staff members he was throwing under the bus. It was like a poker “tell”. I’ve seen this before, the […]
Open Investigation into Judging Decisions of Women’s Figure Skating and Demand Rejudgement at the Sochi Olympics please sign the petition at change.org
Despite the institutionalized cheating, incomprehensible scoring system, the canned music, the toothy smiles, the figure skating at the winter Olympics is the most magnificent spectacle that international sports has to offer. I was a child figure skater, subjected to my own ugly skating costumes and cruel coaches, so I know a little of what […]
This story may make you laugh or make you want to kill yourself/others. “What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society”, by Kevin Roose in the New York Magazine, exposes the creepy secret fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi Wall Street Chapter, which involves an incredible list of some of the most gobstoppingly rich […]
Humanity and most everything else that walks or crawls, swims of flies loses. The Planet and its evolution then take another stab at life and possibly some hundreds of millions of years down the road the next” intelligent” life form finds us in the fossil record. That Ham guy, even more than Bill Nye, delivered […]
Living Treasure Evgeni Plushenko Drops Out of Olympics. Beautiful tribute video to him on Jezebel
The Palace of Inquisition, also known as the Inquisition Palace, (Spanish: Palacio de la Inquisición), eighteenth-century torture chamber in Cartagena facing the Parque de Bolívar. Kind of crappy, but fun for the unfettered access you have to the torture equipment, good for horsing around on.
Chris Christie’s going down the river for this cuz nobody, and I mean nobody, believes that a loudmouth control freak with a reputation for hardball tactics and retribution would’ve had all of his top aides suddenly embark on a highly visible revenge plot without him knowing. And with Christie so obviously willing to sacrifice the […]