Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Now This is a Dirty Foul
With Portland blowing out the Lakers by 30 points, Trevor Ariza clotheslines Rudy F from behind. Rudy was later taken off on a stretcher, Ariza got a flagrant 2.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Film Directors Doing Comedy Routines
Featuring Wes Anderson, Michael Moore and Quentine Tarantino...
This Would Make A Soccer Player Blush
AK47 with perhaps the worst flop I've ever seen, a few months ago against Chris.
Big Baby v Varejao
I know this is old news, but I hadn't watched it since it was live at the bar, and just now realized how much of a flop this was. Varejao lands relatively softly, immediately grabs his face like Baby just broke his nose, and then upon noticing there was a bit of a tussle going on jumps strait up, perfectly fine.
UPDATE: The NBA yesterday reduced Davis’ Flagrant 2 foul Friday night on Cleveland’s Anderson Verajao to Flagrant 1 status. But with that move, the league didn’t tell Rivers anything he didn’t already know. “I could have done that live,” said Rivers. “That wasn’t very hard to do. It was probably an overreaction because of the importance of the game. The game was getting a little chippy, and they felt they had to keep it under control. But when they said Flagrant 2 you knew they were going to reverse it.” Well, not quite. Though Davis was spared a fine or further suspension, there was no way to take back his ejection from the Cavaliers game.
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The Recession Generation: Future Squares?
IN 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later. “Youth’s ambitions have shrunk,” the magazine declared. “Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind of suburban idyll.” The young soldier “lacks flame,” students were “docile notetakers.” And the young writer’s flair “sometimes turns out to be nothing more than a byproduct of his neuroses.” (This even before Philip Roth, born 1933, had published a novel.)
“The best thing that can be said for American youth, in or out of uniform, is that it has learned that it must try to make the best of a bad and difficult job, whether that job is life, war, or both,” Time concluded. “The generation which has been called the oldest young generation in the world has achieved a certain maturity.” Today we are in a recession the depth and duration of which are unknown; Friday’s job loss figures were just the latest suggestion that it could well be prolonged and profound rather than shorter and shallower. So what of the youth shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession? Will a publication looking back from 2030 damn them with such faint praise? Will they marry younger, be satisfied with stable but less exciting jobs? Will their children mock them for reusing tea bags and counting pennies as if this paycheck were the last? At the very least, they will reckon with tremendous instability, just as their Depression forebears did.
“The ’30s challenged the whole idea of the American dream, the idea of open economic possibilities,” said Morris Dickstein, an English professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, whose cultural history of the Depression will be published in September. “The version you get of that today is the loss of confidence on the part of both parent and children that life in the next generation will inevitably be better.” How today’s young will be affected 10, 20 or 40 years on will depend on many things — the children of the Depression were shaped as much by the war that followed. The recession generation will include those born into it, at the youngest end, and those emerging out of college and high school into a jobless marketplace, at the oldest. If history is any guide, what will matter most is where they are on the continuum.
-NYTimes
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A good interesting read, obviously very speculative, but seems to suggest that those that are young now will be most affected. Some of the analysis is scary though; some suggest that those graduating college in the (smaller) recessionary period of the early 1980s were held back by a decade...
“The best thing that can be said for American youth, in or out of uniform, is that it has learned that it must try to make the best of a bad and difficult job, whether that job is life, war, or both,” Time concluded. “The generation which has been called the oldest young generation in the world has achieved a certain maturity.” Today we are in a recession the depth and duration of which are unknown; Friday’s job loss figures were just the latest suggestion that it could well be prolonged and profound rather than shorter and shallower. So what of the youth shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession? Will a publication looking back from 2030 damn them with such faint praise? Will they marry younger, be satisfied with stable but less exciting jobs? Will their children mock them for reusing tea bags and counting pennies as if this paycheck were the last? At the very least, they will reckon with tremendous instability, just as their Depression forebears did.
“The ’30s challenged the whole idea of the American dream, the idea of open economic possibilities,” said Morris Dickstein, an English professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, whose cultural history of the Depression will be published in September. “The version you get of that today is the loss of confidence on the part of both parent and children that life in the next generation will inevitably be better.” How today’s young will be affected 10, 20 or 40 years on will depend on many things — the children of the Depression were shaped as much by the war that followed. The recession generation will include those born into it, at the youngest end, and those emerging out of college and high school into a jobless marketplace, at the oldest. If history is any guide, what will matter most is where they are on the continuum.
-NYTimes
Read Full Article
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A good interesting read, obviously very speculative, but seems to suggest that those that are young now will be most affected. Some of the analysis is scary though; some suggest that those graduating college in the (smaller) recessionary period of the early 1980s were held back by a decade...
Time for Practice
The Newmarket BBall season officially started today, and I know y'all are a little rusty. You know what that means. Time for practice. Not the game. Practice. I'm talkin about Practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. We're talkin about practice. Practice? Practice.
Practice.
Practice.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
You = Losers, CNBC = Winners
This is America, we don't pay for losers' houses. Should've watched CNBC dummy.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Cheaper than a cup of coffee...
Today Citi Group Inc. became a penny stock before closing slightly above a dollar. As I read this news, some bizarre mix of capitalist/Jewish impulsiveness took over me, and I bought 500 shares of it before the market closed. For richer or poorer I suppose, but I've wasted so much fucking money in my life I decided even if all goes wrong it was worth the risk. Any opinions from the analysts?
How to Stop the Drug Wars
A HUNDRED years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission—just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff. Many other bans of mood-altering drugs have followed. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a “drug-free world” and to “eliminating or significantly reducing” the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
That is the kind of promise politicians love to make. It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century. It is intended to reassure the parents of teenagers across the world. Yet it is a hugely irresponsible promise, because it cannot be fulfilled.
Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same. In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in the developing world even as addiction has flourished in the rich world. By any sensible measure, this 100-year struggle has been illiberal, murderous and pointless. That is why The Economist continues to believe that the least bad policy is to legalise drugs.
“Least bad” does not mean good. Legalisation, though clearly better for producer countries, would bring (different) risks to consumer countries. As we outline below, many vulnerable drug-takers would suffer. But in our view, more would gain.
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There really shouldn't be anything new in this article to anyone reading this blog; the horrible, miserable failure that the drug war has been along with the basic political right of any individual to do what they want provided it harms no one else should have led anyone with half a brain to push for legalization years ago. However, while this is not the first time the Economist has made the case for legalization, putting it on the cover of their magazine at this given time seems to fall in line with the general trend lately of mainstream media coverage being in favor, or at least honestly open about the drug war/legalization debate. Let's hope this leads to significant legislation finally being passed in this country that begins to end the epic fuck-up the drug war is.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Drink Up Danny
With the Cavs picking up Joe Smith, and Starbury coming off a rough night. Danny Ainge, Pabst off to ya!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
random rookie video edit
word on the street is filming for the toast house original starts this weekend.
new hampshire stand up
A strange looking cat has been causing a stir at a veterinary hospital in America.
The cat's name is Ugly Bat Boy and he is bald apart from a furry chest.
Dr. Stephen Bassett was given the cat by a client and says Ugly is happy with the attention he attracts at his surgery in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the USA.
Hospital staff say the curious cat can scare and mesmerise people.
click here! for the video..
this was one of the top read stories on the bbc world news...
The cat's name is Ugly Bat Boy and he is bald apart from a furry chest.
Dr. Stephen Bassett was given the cat by a client and says Ugly is happy with the attention he attracts at his surgery in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the USA.
Hospital staff say the curious cat can scare and mesmerise people.
click here! for the video..
this was one of the top read stories on the bbc world news...
Monday, March 2, 2009
NBA: The No Benjamins Association
A Great Article From The Sports Guy
Its too long and varied to really sum up by pasting a paragraph or two, but just trust me and read it. The SG discusses the effect the money drain is having on the nba, from a lack of dominate franchises, no major trades, setting the stage for a lock out in 2011, the collapse and or moving of small market franchises, and more. While he makes the argument that the NBA will fair better than the MLB and certainly the NHL (he cites one anonymous source within the NHL that claims up to 15 NHL Franchisees could fold in the next few years), he nevertheless makes the case that dark times are ahead for the league.
Its too long and varied to really sum up by pasting a paragraph or two, but just trust me and read it. The SG discusses the effect the money drain is having on the nba, from a lack of dominate franchises, no major trades, setting the stage for a lock out in 2011, the collapse and or moving of small market franchises, and more. While he makes the argument that the NBA will fair better than the MLB and certainly the NHL (he cites one anonymous source within the NHL that claims up to 15 NHL Franchisees could fold in the next few years), he nevertheless makes the case that dark times are ahead for the league.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
emcee macho man randy savage.
here's the macho man dedicating one for kurt hennig, aka mr. perfect:
i'm pretty sure this is a collabo track with dmx...or someone who sounds a lot like dmx...
don't sleep...
i'm pretty sure this is a collabo track with dmx...or someone who sounds a lot like dmx...
don't sleep...
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