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Last month in her ongoing conservatorship legal battle, Britney Spears won a victory when the presiding judge said that she could ditch her court-appointed attorney and hire a Hollywood hotshot attorney. You want the latter to be able to make bold and unsupported claims to the entertainment press who repeat …
Quick. List your favorite MLB Cy Young Award-winning All-Star pitcher accused of violent sodomy. The lovable scamp Trevor Bauer remains on “7-day administrative leave” for 44 days and counting. If you’re a follower of penal system investigations or MLB disciplinary proceedings, you can expect this isn’t good news for Trevor …
Blazing Saddles introduced the memorable line, “The Sheriff is a n***er”. The N-word was used repeatedly throughout the film. Mel Brooks and company intended to show the idiocy of the “white people of the Old West”, stand-ins for lesser thinkers of then-modern early 1970’s time who might still be using the …
LeBron James may be the most famous person in the world. They used to say that about Michael Jordan. I’ll assume that mantle has been handed to LeBron. He’s certainly the most socially followed athlete in the U.S., or the entire world if you discount a couple of soccer stars. …
It’s wise to consider human nature in all things. For all the societal norms, cultural customs, and etiquette standards we’ve constructed as a people, nothing overrides human nature. A child rapist doesn’t seek out employment at an old folk’s home. They go where the hunting is good. That doesn’t mean …
You may be surprised that an excess of stupid new sports doesn’t make my list of failures at the current Olympics in Tokyo. Taking middle school P.E. games and turning them into Olympic sports is grating. But it’s purely additive. If they add ten new inane events, skip them. You …
A sports fan could and should care less about their team mascot. Perhaps in the selection moment, everybody has an opinion, but once you get past the bogus premise it matters if you’re a Seahawk or a Tiger or a Bear, you merely want your team to win a title. …
We could have a conversation about how healthy or unhealthy it is to have a single human being with the purchasing power of the entire continent of Africa and half of South America. Especially when they move beyond their core function of getting fanny packs and processed cheese products from …
Every boy wants to be an astronaut. If I had a government grant to promote STEM for girls, I’d pretend every girl wants to as well. Some do. Especially the soccer players. But mostly boys. Ashton Kutcher probably wanted to fly in space since he was but a super annoying …
I have not an evidentiary clue about the mental state of Britney Spears. Neither do you. About five people in this world likely do, probably not including Britney Spears herself. Those five people are the only ones on the planet not weighing in on the propriety of Spears’ conservatorship. So, …