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Why Professional Sports Need 2 Dimensional Field Altering Technology

Oct

23

2015

Most sports, at least the good ones, are the same game with minor variations: Basketball, football, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, tennis, rugby, etc – there is a goal at each end of a rectangular shaped field and you defend your end and score on the other. Most of these sports are horrendously boring and we need ...

The NFL’s Ridiculous American Flag Display Devours Itself

Sep

15

2015

I was watching Monday Night Football and prior to the game for reasons unknown a bunch of people trotted out a giant American flag which covered the entire football field, an obnoxious display intended to prove the NFL is more American than any other American thing in America. The reasoning behind public displays of patriotism at ...

My Run In With Suge Knight

Aug

29

2015

Just keep your head down, I kept telling myself… The meta irony that Suge Knight is awaiting trial for the murder of a guy who he killed on the set of Straight Outta Compton, a movie in which he is a central character and of which the script features him threatening to murder several people, is ...

That Stereotype About Lawyers And Politicians Being Despicable Human Beings Is True

Feb

15

2015

The following is regarding my run for West Hollywood City Council. Another candidate, Larry Block, recently had a bogus lawsuit filed against him by a lawyer who represents John Duran, a current member of the Council. The person spearheading this lawsuit is John Duran. He doesn’t want Block to win, so he had this creep Neal ...