Ignoring the infantile behavior of the rioters, what about the football program? Some are thinking that this should be a capital offense (i.e., death penalty for the footbal program). But even if the NCAA doesn’t do anything about it, I wonder what the Big Ten is thinking?
Category Archives: Popular Culture
So Why Can’t Hollywood Do Zombies Right?
Jonah Goldberg is asking the serious questions.
Occupy Wall Street
…has been occupied by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Kim Kardashian’s Divorce
Why you should be concerned about it. Really.
It Has Come To This
The Sioux Nation is Siouxing the NCAA over its political correctness:
“Though the NCAA has decided ‘Fighting Sioux’ is derogatory, the NCAA supports the University of Illinois’ use of the name ‘Fighting Illini,’ and the use by Florida State University of the name ‘Seminoles’ along with the Seminole mascot – someone dressed in Native American attire who rides into the FSU stadium on a horse and throws a flaming spear before every home football game,” said Soderstrom. “The NCAA claims these are not derogatory depictions because the Illini people and the Seminole people approve of the use of the name and mascot. Inexplicably, the NCAA fails to accept the tribal vote and the sacred religious ceremony as endorsements of the name ‘Fighting Sioux’ by the North Dakota Sioux Nation.”
The lawsuit claims that the Sioux tribe were “indispensable parties” to a lawsuit filed by the State of North Dakota against the NCAA in 2007, the settlement of which required the state to get permission from the Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux tribes, but were never included in negotiations of that settlement. It also alleges defamation, violations of the Indian Civil Rights Act, defamation and an unlawful restraint on trade.
You know, in the old days, they would have just taken some scalps.
Ghosts
…gone wild? It could be a new show on E!
Why can’t anyone ever get a good picture of a ghost?
Thoughts On Cosmology
…and early German movies, from Lileks.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Ain’t it the truth? Dispatches from Venus, and Mars.
Halloween Horrors
First It Was Unexciting Band Names
And today it’s Rejected Peanuts Specials. As you might guess, some of them are kind of sick.
Less-Than-Exciting Band Names
A compilation, including some from Yours Truly.