A frolic in Cambodia

[Skeks in the city]

[Atticus Grinch]

Six or seven Looney Tunes come true all at once.

[Skeks in the city]

The new game JFK reloaded lets you try to assassinate JFK.

If that's not your style, riot with MassHoles in the game Riot UMass. Link to the Riot UMass game.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Adder
Anyone think that the "narcotic" involved wasn't weed (will spare you my rant about how weed is not a narcotic)?

Somebody cue Sebby for an anti-drug war rant. I don't have the energy. Although I do think it is a little ridiculous to call it child endangerment to be smoking some weed while they are home (assuming we are talking weed).

According to the TV news, it was cocaine. And I wonder if it isn't more than personal use amounts. But child protection automatically kicks in when there is a drug arrest at the home. Doesn't mean they will lose their kids.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Six or seven Looney Tunes come true all at once.

Germany - A four-year-old girl's bulky pyjamas saved her from injury after she fell from an upper-storey window, police in Germany said on Monday.

Thinking the child was fast asleep, her mother left the house to pick up her husband from work in a suburb of Aachen, safe in the knowledge that she would be home 10 minutes later.

But the tot woke up immediately, opened her bedroom window and climbed out onto the icy second-floor sill. Slipping off the edge, her pyjamas snagged on ornamental ironwork.

The fabric stretched and finally tore, but did so, so slowly that the girl fell softly into the bed of the Acme pillow delivery pick up truck parked below.

She then skittered across the icy roadway of a busy street, causing vehicles to skid in all directions, including a bicyclist who was catapulted head first into a multi-layer wedding cake that was being carried out of an adjacent bakery. Finally, a driver stopped and snatched the girl to safety, moments before a large safe from a malfunctioning crane came crashing down onto the very spot where the child had been crawling.

The parents arrived home to find police officers escorting her to the front door.

Aside from a few scrapes and a chill, she was totally unharmed.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Dangerfield mocked me for saying My Morning Jacket sounded like '70s AM radio. This afternoon I came into possession of a disc of MMJ doing "Golden" in a live set in which they ended by quoting the first verse of Bread's "I Want to Make It with You."

I shit you not.

Yeh, I might have been wrong about them. I don't listen to them too much anymore. One day I was sitting in my car listening to them and it just hit me... "Fuck, these guys are boring as shit."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Skeks in the city

That is the perfect shade of Nipple Brown.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Artest is a stupid motherfucker who should be kicked out of the fucking game for life. If I was playing against him every last word would be "Bill Lambeer is fucking your mama"

What I want to know is how that dude Artest hit with three right crosses was still standing and trying to fight back. Artest can scratch boxing off things to do for the rest of the NBA season. he's got less of a KO punch than Lennox.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What I want to know is how that dude Artest hit with three right crosses was still standing and trying to fight back. Artest can scratch boxing off things to do for the rest of the NBA season. he's got less of a KO punch than Lennox.

You mean this guy (or his friend), who took all of Artest's best and then the cheapest shot in basketball since Tomjanovich had his jaw shattered?:



When you are trying to protect yourself or a teamate from a fan who is threatening you or a teamate, I can understand throwing haymakers. When you have been disrespected after you've just been in a fight and the adrenalin is turned up to high, I can see you losing it. Not a justification, but people have to be realistic. It is predictable that someone will lose it if you throw a drink in their face.

But it is inexcusable to go around punching people indiscriminately just because chaos has broken out. This is why I think the Jermaine O'Neal punishment is way too low. He threw that punch at a guy who was just getting up and was not an immediate threat to anyone. I don't understand why this isn't considered criminal. If this happened in any other location and they had that punch on camera, he would be in jail right now.

They're all fucking cowards anyway. I didn't see any one of those guys (including Artest) going after Ben Wallace after Artest's bullshit foul and he was the biggest threat to their teamate in that stadium. But they were all Mike Tyson when it came to guys half their size, weren't they?

Fuckin' pussies.

TM

ETA: Here is what Billy Hunter, executive director of the player's union said:

"Where was the security?" Hunter said. "They sell a lot of alcohol, and it seemed that the people who were involved were people who had a little too much to drink."

What a fucking asshole. Which guys exactly were drunk? Why are they acting like a bunch of drunken fans were out of control? I saw some sodas being thrown (and later a chair, jesus), but none of those guys looked drunk to me. Where does he get this? The ones with the worst behavior were the ones who left to court to attack the fans. Their safety was never an issue until they left the court and made it an issue.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You mean this guy (or his friend), who took all of Artest's best and then the cheapest shot in basketball since Tomjanovich had his jaw shattered?:

Nope. Different guy. The video I was talking about was a guy about four rows back who takes three solid crosses to the face. In the segment of the video I'm referring to, Artest and the fan are separated by a folding chair. You clearly see Artest nail the guy three times in the face. The first shot lands directly on the guys nose. I was left thinking "Shit, how the hell did that guy's nose fail to explode?" The second shot hits the guy in the cheek. The third either hits the guy's cheek again or is a glancing miss (at that point, Artest's fist blocks your view a bit).

I'll see if I can locate a still shot of it online.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is why I think the Jermaine O'Neal punishment is way too low. He threw that punch at a guy who was just getting up and was not an immediate threat to anyone. I don't understand why this isn't considered criminal.

It is. The Oakland County Prosecutor is seriously looking at charges, and O'Neal seems to be a main target. The prosecutor said that O'Neal cold-cocked another guy, not on camera. 2 cops signed statements that they had seen it.

The thing with O'Neal it he cost himself a ton in endorsements with this also. He went from one of the brightest, most-photogenic young stars to being no longer a solid endorement candidate, didn't he?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Nope. Different guy. The video I was talking about was a guy about four rows back who takes three solid crosses to the face. In the segment of the video I'm referring to, Artest and the fan are separated by a folding chair. You clearly see Artest nail the guy three times in the face. The first shot lands directly on the guys nose. I was left thinking "Shit, how the hell did that guy's nose fail to explode?" The second shot hits the guy in the cheek. The third either hits the guy's cheek again or is a glancing miss (at that point, Artest's fist blocks your view a bit).

I'll see if I can locate a still shot of it online.

he was punching up on the first, and didn't really get a good swing on the others. Jackson was the one who got a solid shot on a guy in the stands.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

ETA: Here is what Billy Hunter, executive director of the player's union said:

"Where was the security?" Hunter said. "They sell a lot of alcohol, and it seemed that the people who were involved were people who had a little too much to drink."

What a fucking asshole. Which guys exactly were drunk? Why are they acting like a bunch of drunken fans were out of control? I saw some sodas being thrown (and later a chair, jesus), but none of those guys looked drunk to me. Where does he get this? The ones with the worst behavior were the ones who left to court to attack the fans. Their safety was never an issue until they left the court and made it an issue.

Also, a little apology or acknowledgement of wrong-doing would have gone a hell of a long way here. I haven't heard any of the three Pacers admit that perhaps they crossed a line and that they were sorry. The videos were shown over and over again, and the only thing coming out of the players' side was "fuck the Detroit fans."

That said--Fuck the Packer fans.

I've been on the losing side in many a football game in the short history of the Houston Texans, and I have yet to run into a more obnoxious set of visiting fans. The folks from Boston last year were downright pleasant.

And Fuck the Texans coaching staff. This was a winnable game, but when every single person in the stadium knows what plays you're going to call, there's no fucking way you're going to win.

The good news is I can't talk to anyone today due to a lack of vocal cords.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
That said--Fuck the Packer fans.

I've been on the losing side in many a football game in the short history of the Houston Texans, and I have yet to run into a more obnoxious set of visiting fans. The folks from Boston last year were downright pleasant.

The fans actually in Green Bay are (according to reputation -- not that I've ever visited Lambert* Field) extremely pleasant. The fans that root for the Packers on the road are idiots.

I was on the road two or three years ago for a couple of hearings, and the local NFL team sucked, so they didn't sell out any of their games. I decided to go, and picked up a ticket outside the stadium for about 75% of face value. The local team was playing the Pack, and the number of drunken idiots with foam cheeseheads screaming in my face in the sushi line when the Packers were up by 14 at halftime was amazing.

At that point, I began praying for Brett Fahv-ruh to get a broken leg. And I like Brett, and dislike the home team. So I feel your pain.

*Sigh.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It is. The Oakland County Prosecutor is seriously looking at charges, and O'Neal seems to be a main target. The prosecutor said that O'Neal cold-cocked another guy, not on camera. 2 cops signed statements that they had seen it.

The thing with O'Neal it he cost himself a ton in endorsements with this also. He went from one of the brightest, most-photogenic young stars to being no longer a solid endorement candidate, didn't he?

You know, I've been talking about this a lot. It's a shame that the only way you are going to be able to really curb this kind of behavior is to throw someone out of the league. Short of a murder on the actual court, it will never fucking happen.

These players need to be brought back to reality. They've been coddled and babied and praised and loved most of their lives. They've been shielded and protected and excused for wrong doing most of their lives. They feel like they are owed so much more than they actually deserve. Watching the interviews around the league, yesterday, it amazed me how every single player seemed to blame the fans yesterday. These guys really feel like Artest and O'Neal and Jackson were somehow wronged by the league. Their expectations of how they should be treated are totally fucking skewed.

Someone needs to have his career ended by the league for attitudes to change. When they sit rookies down for their orientation and they teach them about protecting their finances, the dangers groupies pose and how to adjust to not having 100 of your closest friends around you all the time, they need to explain something else to these kids. And they need someone to point to.

They need to know that they live one of the most privileged lives in the history of the world. They are showered with money, love, adulation, opportunity and access that doesn't come without being a part of the nba. They need to know that part of the job -- part of earning all of those things -- is the ability to control yourself in ugly situations. Because they don't believe that now. They think that they are giving their gift to other people and they are owed something more than what they already have (as if that is somehow even possible). But, they won't listen. They won't listen until someone tells them, "You see Ron Artest? He's playing in Europe for $5 million less a year because he didn't think about what was important to him. He could have gone to the locker room wet and angry and he would have been fine. Now he plays for Slovania. You want that to happen to you? Okay, now that I have your attention, let's talk about how to avoid that kind of situation."

TM