Category: Sports
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Stupor Bowl LIX
Two reasons to watch: Trump will be there; DOGE will run commercials. For twelve reasons not to watch see here. You may enjoy a thoughtful rant of mine from 2016, Stupor Bowl or Super Bore? Elon Musk on DOGE.
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The Double Denial by the ‘Woke’
It is not unreasonable to maintain that there is no God and that nature alone exists. But suppose you take it a step further and deny nature as well. Then you are in the precincts of 'woke' lunacy. Call it the Double Denial. One way to deny nature is by denying that the biotic underpins…
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The Stupor Bowl is a Super Bore
Panem et circenses! I am no fan of spectator sports. We have too many sports spectators and too many overpaid* professional louts. I preach the People's Sports, despite the leftish ring of that. Remove your sorry tail from the couch of sloth and start a softball league with your friends and neighbors. Play volley ball…
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Pence’s Departure a Stunt?
Damon Linker: While Trump and Corker took potshots at each other, Vice President Mike Pence engaged in an intentionally polarizing stunt by showing up at an Indianapolis Colts football game only to depart in a huff when players from the San Francisco 49ers (predictably) knelt in protest during the national anthem. It was an utterly…
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Time to Defund the NFL
Some important points re: the NFL flag and anthem controversy. 1) In its third clause, the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging freedom of speech or of the press." This protects the U. S. citizen from any attempt from the side of the U.…
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‘Constructivism’ Gone Wild: Biological Male Wins Women’s Cycling Event
Story here: A 36-year-old biological male dominated the women’s division of the El Tour de Tucson last weekend, an annual cycling competition in Arizona that attracts thousands of amateur and professional cyclists. Jillian Bearden — who identifies as a transgender woman — won the 106-mile race in 4 hours and 36 minutes, the Arizona Daily…
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Martin Heidegger on Muhammad Ali
Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes last night gushed over the late boxer as a "transcendent" specimen of humanity. Her over-the-top performance put me in mind of what I call the 'Pincers Passage' in Heidegger's 1935 lecture, Introduction to Metaphysics (tr. Ralph Manheim, Doubleday 1961, p. 31, emphasis added. This Europe, in its ruinous blindness forever…
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Stupor Bowl or Super Bore?
Time for my annual Super Bowl Sunday rant. But perhaps I should not be so harsh on the masses who need their panem et circenses to keep them distracted from matters of moment, both secular and spiritual. The Latin could be very loosely translated as 'food stamps and football.' I won't be watching the game.…
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Sports and Politics
When it comes to sports I'm a participant, not a spectator; when it comes to politics, I'm a spectator, not a participant. I watch politics, not football; I run races, not for office. Related articles The Rationality of Political Ignorance More on the Rationality of Political Ignorance
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Stupor Bowl Sunday 2014
The Stupor Bowl this year acquires new meaning considering that the competing teams are from states that have recently legalized marijuana.
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Stupor Bowl or Super Bore?
Here is my annual Stupor Bowl Sunday rant.
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Stupor Bowl Sunday Refused, Yet Again
Herewith, my annual Stupor Bowl Sunday post, supplemented with a properly curmudgeonly quotation from Edward 'Cactus Ed' Abbey for your reading enjoyment. Things were bad last year: the damn thing transpired in Phoenix. Luckily, it was far from where I dwell safe and snug in the foothills of the Superstition Mountains. This year the game…