Posted on Jul 29, 2011 | 1 comment
To replace Bruce Arena four years ago, U.S. Soccer should have gotten Juergen Klinsmann, former coach and player for the German national team. Instead, they settled for Bob Bradley.
Now, they get a chance to fix that mistake. Klinsmann was a great player, a great coach and he is more American than I am, so he will have no problem at all showing an American team how to play world-caliber...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Bloggers Vs. Journalists In A Cultural Death Roll
But...but...you have to love journalists, according to journalists. Only we hold government accountable and gotcha videos and bloggers rehashing what we come up with or they see in press releases can't be the same thing, they insist.Well, it can, actually. Journalists stopped being trusted guides long ago and the public caught on. Journalists can complain about how much more...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2011 | Comments Off on Strange pride – I stayed at one of America’s dirtiest hotels
Someone has to be the worst, but America’s worst hotels is a dubious top 10 list to make. Yet every cloud has a silver lining, the saying goes – growing up Florida there weren’t a lot of silver linings in hurricanes but let’s suppose they are correct – if they are correct, the silver lining in being one of America’s top 10 dirtiest hotels list is that you...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 | Comments Off on This actually IS your grandfather’s Raiderettes
I am not much of an Oakland Raiders fan.
Because I am a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.
But in the 1970s, when both teams were good, I wasn’t even a Steelers fan, I was a Cowboys fan. The Cowboys only had one well-known cokehead whereas the Steelers, though they won four rings, were a ‘dirty’ team and, possessed with the idealism of youth, I did not like dirty teams.
But no one was...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 | Comments Off on Big Kahuna Donut Burger – I want one
I have long objected to health mullahs and their war on what we want to eat. Their rationale is that people are really, really stupid and are solely educated by advertising so it needs to be controlled – or foods banned entirely. I disagree we are really, really stupid and instead submit we are really, [...]
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