This week...in California news....the state legislative committee pushed a bill that would put a two-year moratorium on the use of metal bats in high school baseball. Purpose? A safety review.
Some folks are saying that metal alloy and aluminum bats make baseballs travel faster, thus triggering some really serious injuries. On the other side of the fence are folks who say wooden bats can be dangerous (although they are careful to hint about speed of the ball coming off the wood bat).
Opponents of the moratorium said wooden bats also are dangerous.
Yes, there have been serious traumatic brain injuries from steel bats...but you can cite a number of the same injuries from wooden bats as well.
The future here?
I sat and pondered over this. I predict that President Obama will call up a commission to review this and prepare a non-partisan effort (it's always a failure but you have to say it)...to include commission members: Johnny Bench, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, and Bobby Tolan. Yes, they are all former Reds and wood enthusiasts. Yes, it's probably an arranged deal. Yes, it's probably a anti-steel bat conspiracy. And yes, the wood industry probably paid for the President in some fashion to say all of this.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Another Baptist Minister
It won't really be printed much in Bama papers or even in national papers...but nationally known Baptist minister...George Alan Rekers...is facing a comical accusation by the media today.
Someone figured out that Doctor Rekers had hired up a male prostitute as a travel assistant while on a ten-day trip to London and Madrid last month. Naturally...this is after a stay in a hospital for a unknown ailment.
Doctor Rekers is kinda famous for saying alot about gay activities (99.9 percent negative).
The companion? Well....the best that I can say in public is that this was a 20 year-old Puerto Rican guy who works out of Rentboy.com and his tag on the website indicates that he is "sensual", "wild", and "up for anything". He also hints of other particulars in his personality....“I’m a college guy, masculine, educated, really easy-going.” Oh, and he lists vanilla, leather, shaving and spanking as his fetishes.
I'm guessing the Baptist church where Doctor Rekers preaches....is sitting there and kinda wondering what exactly the boss was doing in Spain. A guy like this can probably outlast the opposition in the church...if he just starts preaching about "casting the first stone". But some folks might come out and just ask how "demons" got into the minister's mind, and this rock argument just won't work well.
As for other Baptist ministers contemplating a European vacation and Rentboy activities? Well....maybe they'd be better off just looking for some Thai ladyboy in Bangkok and just avoid dragging some escort around with you.
Someone figured out that Doctor Rekers had hired up a male prostitute as a travel assistant while on a ten-day trip to London and Madrid last month. Naturally...this is after a stay in a hospital for a unknown ailment.
Doctor Rekers is kinda famous for saying alot about gay activities (99.9 percent negative).
The companion? Well....the best that I can say in public is that this was a 20 year-old Puerto Rican guy who works out of Rentboy.com and his tag on the website indicates that he is "sensual", "wild", and "up for anything". He also hints of other particulars in his personality....“I’m a college guy, masculine, educated, really easy-going.” Oh, and he lists vanilla, leather, shaving and spanking as his fetishes.
I'm guessing the Baptist church where Doctor Rekers preaches....is sitting there and kinda wondering what exactly the boss was doing in Spain. A guy like this can probably outlast the opposition in the church...if he just starts preaching about "casting the first stone". But some folks might come out and just ask how "demons" got into the minister's mind, and this rock argument just won't work well.
As for other Baptist ministers contemplating a European vacation and Rentboy activities? Well....maybe they'd be better off just looking for some Thai ladyboy in Bangkok and just avoid dragging some escort around with you.
For Sale: Newsweek
Today, it was kinda announced that the Washington Post is now desperate enough to part with Newsweek. To be honest about this profitable weekly news magazine....it hasn't made a true profit since 2007. And you have to be careful how you announce "profitability" even before 2007 with Newsweek. This year, they will lose $20 million, and 2011 looks just as bleak.
So who would buy Newsweek? Well....it will not be another newspaper chain. You can't find a single chain in America that is making any kind of profit and has the ability to absorb long term losses here.
News media device like Wall Street Journal? Well....no. Those who are standing on their own....like the WSJ folks.....aren't interested in a news magazine with a lousy track record.
So there sits this former giant....waiting for someone to take it to bold new front. It would be curious if someone like Rush Limbaugh came up and offered $100 million....just to see what the Washington Post would do. I'm guessing they want $500 million to part with the company.....and no one is going to offer that unless they have deep pockets to continue the loss trend.
What would a Rush Limbaugh do with the Newsweek magazine? He'd probably take most of the journalists and just give them ten minutes to consider a shift in direction for their writing. They'd walk out....and then a entire new team would walk in. The curious thing would be subscriptions....would they pick up? I'm betting they would.
Could some Saudi prince walk in and buy the Newsweek crew? Yes....that too is possible. Even a Russian oil wizard could buy it.
It might be a curious point in time....where a shift suddenly shocks the world and bold new reporting starts to occur. Well...maybe.
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