Day: November 13, 2012

Eat My Sports: Fantasy non-football

This week marked a black mark on fantasy football’s pristine face. Yahoo!’s fantasy football site, including their mobile apps went down Sunday starting around 12 noon, leaving multiple fantasy owners (including our own Rick Snee) out of luck, and costing some teams (including our own Rick Snee) a game when the fantasy season was down to five games and playoff positioning is vital.

Yahoo! Has issued a statement of apology for the matter, but quite frankly, it’s not good enough. While most people have their rosters set by Thursday night, a lot of people make adjustments on Sunday based off the  early games, injury reports, game time decisions and just plain intuition fueled by Miller Lite. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Fantasy non-football

“Take. Eat. This is my bo-OW!”

We don’t like to read a lot into religion here at SG (we are, after all, Seventh Day Southern Orthodox Snake Unitarians), but that said, we think that the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist is fairly straight-forward. It’s a representative act, not something that should be taken literally.

Leave it to Australia to mess things up.

Two octogenarian priests in the land down under got into a bit of a scuffle (because OY!, that’s why) that resulted in the younger of the pair biting an ear off his elder. Now, we’re not going to jump to the conclusion that one of the priests is a zombie (at least, one initially, now it’s a pair) NO, WAIT, THAT’S TOTALLY WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO.

A plan that can only secede

The whitehouse.gov petition site, “We the People” has received 22 petitions from citizens, each asking for their state’s permission to “peacefully … withdraw from the United States of America and create its own new government.” The site’s rules state that petitions receiving 25,000 signatures will be addressed by President Obama’s administration.

Louisiana resident “Michael E.” was the first to submit a petition the day after the 2012 election. The petition has received 16,000 signatures since. Meanwhile, Texas already has 26,000 signatures. In case you’re wondering, why, yes, most of the nuts submitting these polite requests to the “dictator-in-chief” are from former Confederate states.

So far, no governor or representative of a state government from these 22 states has endorsed the petitions, mostly because they’re busy lobbying for federal money for bridges, police departments and defense contracts.

Clowns: The antidote for white supremacists

On Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan joined up with the National Socialist Movement (a neo-Nazi group from Michigan, which is just as bad as Illinois Nazis) for a good old-fashioned rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were there to express their support of the fundamentals of any white supremacist movement: affordable healthcare, livable wages, and, of course, marriage equality.

Kidding! They were just there to be a bunch of racists.

But to their surprise, they were outnumbered 5-1 by counter-protesters. These weren’t just any counter-protesters, these were counter-protesters dressed as clowns. With their colorful wigs, face paint, red noses, and we can only assume one comically small car that they were all able to fit into, they honked horns, blew whistles and squeezed squeaky toys to drown out the KKK, and it worked.

“The message from us is, you look silly,” said Lacey Williams, the youth coordinator for Charlotte’s Latin American Coalition. “We’re dressed like clowns and you’re the ones that look funny.”