Random rants or posts by a Brown Guy who is not always Angry. Usually about politics, sports or games but every now and then comes along a post completely off the wall.
After watching video after video of authorities continuously overstep their powers or having very short fuses just makes me wonder whether those enforcing the law are more out of hand now or just that fact that technology is so readily available that we are just seeing more of it now.
Anyways, here is the surveillance video released in an assault case against a King County, Wash. sheriff’s deputy shows him kicking a young girl, slamming her to the jail cell floor and striking her repeatedly. The deputy has (obviously) pleaded not guilty in case… did you expect anything different?
I usually don’t like posting very much about the Devils since I despise them with pretty much every ounce blood in me but there was something yesterday that I just couldn’t pass up. So here is an old friend of mine from high school who has gone to more New Jersey Devils games than anyone else I know. Just turns out that all that paid off yesterday as he was in attendance for Martin Brodeur’s return in which he blanked the Colorado Avalanche 4-0.
Brodeur’s win which his seven of the season now puts him at 545 for his spectacular career, leaving him just six shy of Patrick Roy’s NHL record of 551. He also recorded his third shutout of the season and 99th of his career, which puts him four short of Terry Sawchuk’s all-time NHL mark of 103.
Congrats Rusty, he seemed in pretty good form for being out how ever many months he was out.
Usually I am all for buying things online and even talking to customer service over the phone or online instead of physically going to the store to deal with a matter. For some reason, when my headset for the iPhone stopped working I decided it would be a great idea to go to the store to get a replacement instead of trying to see whether they could mail it to me.
I walked into the Apple Store at Menlo Park Mall and was immediately greeted by a nice guy who asked me about my problem. I ended up going to the Genius Bar desk where I went on to describe that recently my right side of my headset stopped working. I probably could have lasted longer with my headset but that is also the side with the microphone that I use to talk on the phone so the problem escalated in priority for me. The first lady who looked at my headset went back to ask a “technician” whether this was covered in the AppleCare Protection Plan. On their own website, it clearly states that the plan “covers iPhone & iPhone Bluetooth hands-free headset and included accessories” which I think is fair to say covers my problem.
John Oliver enjoyed this year’s Academy Awards thanks to Jon being the George W. Bush of comedy. He pokes fun at what I would call Jon’s two less than spectacular prior performances as the host of the event. Look at Jon Stewart though, boy can that guy take a joke.
I won’t insert any quotes from the clip yet incase you haven’t seen it yet but I think I’ll reference it when I put up an Oscar-related post tomorrow. All I’ll say is “Hugh Jackman! The guy is amazing!”
I had been waiting for someone to transcribe this from this past weekend’s The Sports Reporters where Tony Kornheiser aimed his parting shots towards Alex Rodriguez and his A-Fraud story. If someone can find the video for this that would be great but so far it is only the transcript from Watchdog.
When I was young, all I ever wanted to be was a sportswriter. I had a cousin who wanted to be an investigative reporter. So to get ahead of people who had the same dreams, we began shooting up drugs.
We were young and stupid. Didn’t know what we were doing. Strictly amateur hour. I can’t believe it worked. I didn’t even know what we were taking!
But I got sportswriter jobs at Newsday, The New York Times and the Washington Post. I had my best year in 1997. I was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. I still didn’t know what drugs I was using. I thought maybe it was actually Tic-Tacs, because people let me get so close to them during interviews.
I wasn’t young and stupid anymore. Now I was middle-aged and stupid. And naive. Then I got hired by ESPN and they put me on ‘Monday Night Football.’ Well, I really felt the need to keep taking drugs to prove they were right in picking me.
By now I was old and stupid. Old, naive, stupid and very, very rich – dating Madonna on the side. If you want to know why I secretly took drugs, it’s because it made me better than I was naturally. And by the way, I lied about my cousin. I don’t even have a cousin.
Like almost everybody else, I was shooting up with Jose Canseco.
