Tell Me It Ain't So..........cont'd

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The MBA's decision is not a transcendent moment in sports history or race relations in America. It will not eradicate racism and bigotry. When people cannot verbalize their true feelings they will act out their feelings in thousands of ways, large and small. And while small minds like Don Lemon's may view Adam Silver's decision today as a sort of victory, those of us with a more expansive world view see it for what it truly is...yet another death blow to the already ravaged carcass of personal freedom for all.

Tell Me It Ain't So!

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Breaking news! Racism is alive and well in America and yes Don Lemon, it is 2014!

No religion has been successful in stamping it out with threats of hell fire and brimstone. No government on earth has been able to legislate a "kumbaya" moment in history. And barring Don Sterling (the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers) from the MBA for life and forcing him to sell the franchise will not rid America of the 'plantation mentality' or Rudyard Kipling's notion of 'the white man's burden'. However, the MBA's Adam Silver did succeed in driving overt racism underground, to seethe, moil and toil beneath a veil of political correctness and polite platitudes. A national conversation about racism is now impossible unless black people want to talk to themselves as they have been on CNN for the past few days.

Fortunately, I do not stand on ceremony, political correctness or some 'fuck wit's' hurt feelings. For the record, I love basketball. I played basketball in high school against some of the ugliest, hairy-legged, foul-mouthed and equally foul-smelling protestant chicks in the business. I outgrew basketball and brawling in parking lots at graduation...that crossroads in life where young adults have to consider how they will share their gifts with the world at large. But I digress.

Whatever Ms. Sibiano's role in Don Sterling's life, he is well rid of her. I suggest he buy a dog...a big dog. Any canine bitch, even a mongrel canine bitch would prove herself to be more loyal a companion than Ms. Sibiano who has more aliases than Heinz has beans. And really Don, at age 80 with your nut sac hanging down to your knees and a prostate as big as a football,...admit it, you have enough on your plate taking a long, satisfying leak. Sell the Clippers, pocket a billion bucks or so, teach your grandkids to drive, take up finger painting, scuba diving, buy an island and sort out the relationship with your estranged wife.

Missing Planes, Black Holes, Jellyfish And CNN

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No doubt you have heard, unless you have been living in a cave somewhere far from media input that the Mayasians have lost a plane, more specifically MH 370. Gone are the days when one can blithely board a jetliner or for that matter a "prop job" with your biggest concerns being the brand of vodka the airline prefers and whether or not your luggage is likely to arrive at the same time you do.

In this day and age of radar, sonar, GPS and satellites that can relay a high definition image of Osama bin Laden's license plate in real time, how the fuck do you lose a plane? This is not a little crop duster that your drunken neighbor borrowed and parked in HIS back forty rather than in YOUR back forty. This is a huge honking Triple Seven with 239 people on board!

Well, it's complicated. For example, was anyone aware that radar is turned off in many poorer far eastern countries purportedly to save on electricity? It is! And did anyone realize that the national pride of the Maylasians is of far more worth than the lives of the people on board or their families? Listening to the various briefings given to families eagerly waiting for news, clamoring news reporters and the requisite number of dignitaries by Transport Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, a grinning imbecile who clearly could not find the cheeks of his own ass with both hands, it is little wonder that the families are enraged and the scientific community perplexed. Hell, I'm perplexed and pissed off and I don't have any relatives who were on board MH 370.

Meanwhile, CNN's Don Lemon speculates that the plane was swallowed up by a black hole, Erin Burnett stutters and stammers her way through an hour long broadcast like a manic on PCP and Anderson Cooper makes his little 'sniffy-faces' in a vain attempt to give the impression he actually gives a shit when sightings of plane wreckage turn out to be jellyfish. So what really happened to that plane and will it ever be found...or will it find us???