Stupor Wild Card Weekend was a picnic for the winners, even for the Bengals if you discount their own jitters. Honestly: the Raiders merely hung on, threatening in theory, until the final drive. Now? Uf. The Big Boy Round beckons, and Imma get presumptuous and declare that none of the fans
Tag: Soapbox Follies
BattleBots Beat: This Time, It’s Personal.
White Men Deserve a Break
Happy Fourth of July. During lunch at work, I came across Roland Merullo's "In Defense of The White Male", published in the Boston Globe yesterday. It's reproduced below in normal font, commentary on italics. EVERYWHERE I TURN these days I encounter the term “white male,” almost always used in a pejorative
SCOTUS Slants in Favor of The [REDACTEDS], You Don’t Have To
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the U.S. decided Matal v. Tam. Simon Tam, lead singer of “The Slants”, applied for trademark protection of the band’s name—his reason: to reclaim the racial slur. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied it, under a statute that prohibits registration of a trademark that