Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon …
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Jun 11 2016
The Belmont Stakes 2016
The last of the Horse Races and I can safely ignore them until next year (Wait? What do you mean there’s another one in November?). The Belmont Stakes are perhaps the most democratic of the Triple Crown Races even though it is held Elmont right next to Queens. Indications of that are they can’t settle …
May 29 2016
The 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500
Wait. How can that be? Didn’t it start in 1911? You are correct, but you are not accounting for the years of 1917 and 1918 (The Great War) and 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945 (World War II) which is six years all together. Of course the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 2.5 mile white elephant constructed …
May 21 2016
Pimlico- Race of Death
What? You think I’m kidding? Two horses, Homeboykris and Prameyda, die at Pimlico on Preakness Day By Dave Sheinin, Washington Post May 21 at 2:59 PM Prameyda, a 4-year-old filly, broke down on the final turn of a 1 1/16-mile turf race, suffering a broken cannon bone in her left front leg, and was euthanized …
May 07 2016
Triple Crown: The Longest 2 Minutes In Sports
This was no ordinary homecoming. This was a do-or-die attempt to lay the ghost of years of rejection from the horse-rearing elite and the literati who sat in those privileged boxes overlooking the track and those unprivileged craven hordes who grovelled around the centre-field where he had suffered as a boy. The clubhouse as I …
May 05 2016
Cinco de Mayo
Reprinted from 5/5/2012 The name simply means “The Fifth of May” and it’s an oddly U.S. American holiday. Except in the State of Puebla they don’t much celebrate the victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in Mexico which makes it much more like Patriot’s Day that we here in New England get …
Mar 17 2016
The Wearing Of The Green
O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his color can’t be seen For there’s a cruel law ag’in the Wearin’ o’ the Green. I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me …
Feb 16 2016
140th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Finals. Tonight we’ll be choosing the winners of the Sporting Group, the Working Group, the Terrier Group, and of course, Best In Show. As a reminder here are the winners from last night- Hound, Borzoi, CH Belisarius Jp My Sassy Girl Toy, Shih Tzu, GCH Wenrick’s Don’t Stop Believing Non-Sporting, Bulldog, GCH Imperious Hamitup Southern …
Feb 15 2016
140th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
Yeah, it’s that time of year again which means March Madness is just around the corner (yay me). I’ll try to keep this short on top because the tables are quite extensive and list each breed with links to the WKC breed characteristics. Tonight’s Groups are Hound, Toy, Non-Sporting, and Herding. The live broadcast is …
Feb 07 2016
Super Bowl L: Panthers v. Broncos
Go ahead, watch them die: F**k those joyless moralists who hate football and the Super Bowl by Steve Almond, Salon Thursday, Feb 4, 2016 05:59 PM EST Super Bowl (Pretentious Roman Numeral 50) is upon us, America! Let us give thanks to the Gods of the Gridiron for our biggest and brightest holy day! Let …
Feb 07 2016
Superb Owl: Puppy Bowl XII v. Kitten Bowl III
Cutemageddon Madness!!! I’m not much given to hyperbole but this afternoon’s matchup between the Senior League on Animal Planet and the Junior League on Hallmark has all the rivalry and excitement of the classic matchups of the National and American Throwball League Championships of the early 60s, before they became faceless and uninteresting cogs of …
Jan 24 2016
National Conference Championship 2015: Cardinals at Panthers
Recognize anyone on the Panthers? Neither do I. Recognize anyone on the Cardinals? Neither do I. Now you can blame this on my utter disdain for Throwball (second only to my contempt for Turn Left Racing, the most popular sport by gate in the United States) and it would probably would be true, but the …