WTF?!
Hockey Coach Greg Walsh Suspended a Year for Opposing Racism!
I mentioned this story when it broke a couple weeks back. I cannot believe the Ontario Minor Hockey Association didn’t do the right thing and rescind his suspension but instead actually lengthened it! What message does this send to people: that it’s OK to have your players utter racial slurs??! Like the Vancouver Sun/National Post puts it, when it comes to racism, hockey is still in the minors. This is a f-cking travesty! #SupportGregWalsh
Read more…
The Toronto Star’s take.
The CBC News’ take.
And here’s the lcoal news’ take:
The Peterborough Examiner.
Man wishes he’d had a coach like Greg Walsh back in 1973. [The Peterborough Examiner]
UPDATE: Hockey coach reinstated after protesting racial slur – social media outrage works! #SupportGregWalsh was tiny but effective. At least the OMHA did the right thing in the end but they never should have made their original decision in the first place. Now what abut an apology??! [Toronto Star]
MUST WATCH Video: More Riots in Greece in Protest of Government Austerity Measures There
All jokes aside though, sh-t looks SUPER-loony tunes over there. Just look at that video!
“Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police across central Athens on Wednesday, smashing cars and hurling gasoline bombs during a nationwide labour protest against the government’s latest austerity measures. The former Development Minister Costis Hatzidakis was attacked by protesters outside a luxury hotel. He was escorted, bleeding from the scene as his attackers yelled “thieves” at him.”
Read more via The Wall Street Journal.
So the other day I asked where else there were ongoing riots besides the UK and Italy. Now I (and you) know. Anyone else feel like this is a harbinger of much worse to come?
Central Provision of Obama’s Health Care Bill Struck Down in Virginia Federal Court
Read more via The New York Times.
Update: The judge who ruled health care reform unconstitutional owns a piece of a GOP consulting firm that worked against health care reform! [Gawker]
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Bernie Madoff Son Found Dead in New York Apartment
This story is LOONEY TUNES:
“Two years to the day, and almost the precise hour and minute, of his father’s arrest by the FBI, Mark Madoff, son of the disgraced Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, was found hanged inside his Manhattan apartment, an apparent suicide according to police. He left behind a short email message to his wife, Stephanie, but no explanation of why he chose to take his life. Upon receiving the email, Stephanie, who reportedly was in Florida with at least one of the couple’s other children, contacted her father, who came to the apartment and found his son-in-law hanged in the living room around 7:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. His two-year-old was sleeping peacefully in a bedroom nearby, police sources said.”
CLICK HERE to read the full article from ABC News.
Video of Hockey Commentator Don Cherry Attacking ‘Pinko’ Left Wing ‘Kooks’ and Media at Rob Ford’s Inauguration
For the uninitiated (i.e. all non-Canadians and non-hockey fans), Don Cherry is a TV personality and Hockey Night in Canada color commentator who’s kind of national institution up here, known both for his loud suits and his loud advocacy of full-contact, violent hockey (at all levels, from little kids on up) as embodied in his Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Hockey and Hard-Hitting Hockey video series.
Earlier this week he caused an uproar at the inauguration of newly-elected Tea Party-esque mayor, Rob Ford by attacking the Toronto media and liberal populace, repeatedly calling them ‘pinkos’ and ‘kooks.’ Of course, reaction was swift….
– Cherry’s comments spur city council pink brigade. [Toronto Star]
– Star Op-ed: New low in public discourse. [Toronto Star]
Read more about it here.