* How Yahoo Sports described the final play of the final game of Brett Favre’s playing career: Joe Webb passed to Percy Harvin to the left for 2 yard gain. lateral to Bernard Berrian for 10 yards. lateral to Greg Lewis. lateral to Visanthe Shiancoe. lateral to Greg Lewis. lateral to Percy Harvin. lateral to Joe Webb. lateral to Visanthe Shiancoe. lateral to Joe Webb for 7 yards
Yep, that reads like desperation to me.
* Wet Wipes and Body Spray Do Not a Shower Make. Some of these are team athletes, and I’m sure some of them are thinking about playing college or pro ball. There, wet wipes and body spray won’t cut the mustard.
This article states that so many high school students are opting out of showering because of privacy concerns, and then it makes the segue into the row over the TSA fluoroscopy scanners. Apples and oranges, IMHO — I know with pretty good confidence that when I’m using a communal shower, nobody is snapping pics of me. The images from the scanners, the TSA can keep forever.
A while ago in this medium, I mistakenly said that the Boys Club baseball team was my first experience with communal showering. Actually, my first was a year before, when I was nine years old, the first time I used a municipal public pool. My point is here is that by the time showering after gym became an option for me, eighth grade, I had no problem with it because I was used to it, and actually wanted to do it. My junior high school actually didn’t allow students in the seventh grade and younger to use the showers, even though some of us boys really wanted to — All depended on the varying onset of puberty. But by the time we hit eighth, almost all of us boys willingly used them, even though they weren’t “required,” but heavily recommended.
I do agree that the tradition of a teacher or staff member serving as the shower police was a sick sadistic tradition that is thankfully long gone. One that I never experienced, even at the sorts of young ages and in situations when one would think an adult would want to confirm my cleanliness.
There are some states that actually require “nude soap showers” (with that exact wording) before using a public pool.
* The original architects of Cloward-Piven, (you’ll never guess their names), want to revise their strategy. They want a mass rebellion of what is thought to be the new class of the structurally unemployed, in order to create the perception of a demand for an even bigger government than we have now.
Problem is, Cloward-Piven II is a victim of the minor successes of Cloward-Piven I. The two main reasons that CP2 will never come to be has to do with Cloward’s and Piven’s precious Barack H. Obama II — Unemployment benefits are being extended so frequently that there is hardly any social unrest resulting in high structural unemployment, and the Obama-obsessed media are portraying a permanent 10% and probably real 17-18% unemployment rate as the “new normal,” mainly as a wagon-circling sociopolitical construct to keep the forever unemployed from being mad at Obama.
* New York University has beaten Columbia University for the coveted Golden Bong Pipe of Manhattan. The ceremony will be on April 20 starting at 4:20 PM.
* Chris Christie’s New Jersey: The taking of private property for public purpose without just compensation.
* SC’s Republican state legislators are jonesing for an SB 1070 for The Palmetto this year.
What’s even better is that when Gov. Nimrata Randhawa vetoes it, it’ll both shut the race pandering neo-cons and certain Tea Party leaders up about how wonderful she is, and also end any national ambitions she has.
* There is new news about the Kinston, North Carolina city elections controversy. I can’t link to it because it contains the name of a sitting Federal judge, but I will give you the relevant take-away.
In case you don’t know, Kinston’s voters voted to do away with party labels in municipal elections, but the Obama/Holder DOJ and its civil wrongs division swooped in and bitched, claiming that black political power in Kinston would be marginally hurt — The exact quote being, “removing the partisan cue in municipal elections will, in all likelihood, eliminate the single factor that allows black candidates to be elected to office.” In other words, what we THOUGHT they were saying is that black voters could never elect blacks to public office if the word “Democrat” wasn’t on the ballot.
The update is that, as it turns out, it’s not blacks that Holder is so worried about, it’s whites, especially white Democrats. They fear that a percentage of white Democrats, yellow dogs who would vote for anything with the “Democrat” label next to it, might not actually vote for a person named “Rastus Williams,” if s/he only had names available on the ballot.
That dog doesn’t hunt for me. Holder’s argument is based on the obsolete notion of the “yellow dog Democrat” good ole boys way down in Dixie. I doubt Kinston is like Raleigh-Durham, a growing Southern metro area with a growing number of doctrinaire white liberal voters, and if I’m right, Kinston is the kind of town like so many others in the South, where “white Democrat” is now an oxymoron.
Another reason why the argument is bogus is that somehow, even with AG Holder basing his argument on that obsolete reality, his boss was able to beat HRC in the primaries then McCain in the general. Enough white people in enough states didn’t seem to have a problem with the name “Barack Obama.” Hell, he even carried North Carolina!
