When Ryan Leaf entered the NFL out of Washington State, he looked like “the real deal.” Big frame, big arm, coming out of a passing system; it looked like he was going to be a big name quarterback for years. But, like Akili Smith, Cade McNown, Andre Ware, and Tim Couch, there are as many […]

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Football players don’t have to be great thinkers. They have to run and catch and tackle better than anyone on the planet. They are behemoths who also happen to be superb physical specimens. They don’t have to compete for Rhodes Scholarships. However, almost all of them attended college, at least for football practices and games. […]

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This was in the news yesterday – an internationally known Catholic priest was shown in photographs last week embracing a bathing-suit-clad woman on a Florida beach, finally admitted that they have had a two-year affair. The Rev. Alberto Cutie (yes, it’s “Father Cutie,” make up your own jokes) said that he is in love with […]

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I know that every beauty contest has a Q&A session to show that these young women have minds along with great bodies. Most of the time, the women come off worse than if there had been no Q&A: their comments and concerns are usually superficial and incipid at best. So, it’s a surprise to me […]

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I know that many Conservatives are racists. I know that they are generally short-sighted and mean. But, they do know how to get their message out, and the rich ones are very adept at getting poor people to vote against their own best interests. And I have believed that they aren’t very smart, but now, […]

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I know that there are some people who would disagree with the previous piece, but then these stories come along… First, Minnesota Republican Representative and ignorant, obnoxious bitch, Michele Bachmann, taking up a story from that font of stupidity, Rush Limbaugh, suggested on Tuesday that President Obama was to blame for the swine flu crisis. […]

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As The Indignant Wife and I sat in slow moving morning rush hour traffic this morning, I started to think about fear. The radio was talking about the Swine Flu pandemic; and people were creeping on the roads this morning because it had rained overnight and continued to drizzle despite no accidents, or other reason […]

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