For the longest time, I’ve pictured the prudes who are the decision makers of the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board to be uptight, very old, very white, grandmothers who would make Carrie Nation look like Larry Flynt. The decisions are secret, arbitrary, and according to film makers, go second by second through films […]

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No one younger than me might remember classic Popeye cartoons, and his overweight pal Wimpy who was always asking “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!” (I always wondered where he got his money, and why he never had any? He hardly looked undernourished.) Now, we have a female Wimpy for the new […]

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When spokesmen including Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the NFL was taking the New Orleans bounty scandal seriously, they weren’t kidding. For the first time in my memory, a head coach of a contending team was suspended for an entire season, which is what happened to Saints’ Head Coach Sean Payton. Payton and Saints General […]

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New York fans aren’t the most patient in the world. (They always are calling for Giants’ Head Coach Tom Caughlin’s job half way through the season, then he goes out and wins another Super Bowl). But while the Yankees are doing their usually outspending everyone except for the Red Sox, the Mets, who have a […]

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It’s funny that it didn’t take 24 hours for the first big deal by new Chicago Bears General Manager Phil Emery to make the criminal section of the paper. The Bears acquired Pro Bowl wide receiver Brandon Marshall from the Miami Dolphins for 2 third round draft picks. Why so cheap? Because Marshall has a […]

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I actually saw almost two complete movies this weekend, and only one of them was targeted at children. The first was “Game Change,” the HBO movie starring Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin and Ed Harris and John McCain. Now, you know going in that “Game Change” is political; it is the story of […]

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It seems like the NCAA should just move it’s headquarters to Syracuse, NY; first there were the allegations that an assistant coach fondled players, and now there is another controversy leveled at Jim Boeheim’s program. The university self-reported possible violations of its internal drug policy more than a year ago and the NCAA is investigating, […]

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