So it looks like the NFL referee labor lockout has come to a close. For the first three excruciating weeks of the season, they’ve been using replacement officials not fit to call a foosball tournament. They’ve mishandled more calls than AT&T cellular. In their disdain for the replacement crews, however, fans have begun to irrationally […]
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47%
Performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by pumpkinFoot. Today’s song blog here: [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/1a8d6-boxscore-11.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Boxscore“]
Righteous Indignation
We all do it. It’s not just muslims. But, it’s the weakest sort of faith practice to take offense at offenses against your faith. First, don’t be so sure of yourself. Second, if what you believe is true, then things like critique of, or jokes about or irreverence for, it, won’t make any substantive difference. […]
Still Alive
Written and performed by theipoetlaureate. Music produced by dj clutch.
Add/Drop
Look, I only had a handful of reasonable song blogging choices for tonight, right? Deadly power outages in Cuba; the terrible motorcade accident that killed one of President Obama’s police escorts; or writing a diss track to the members of my fantasy football league. Eat my % Owned Voldemort’s Confetti ! I kept it classy […]
Pitch Perfect
Bill Clinton was a pretty special capstone to a drudgery of speeches at the DNC this evening. During his presidency, people we knew would say that Clinton reminded them of my dad. That they talked, even looked similar. You might as well have said my dad was a mangy street mongrel than to have compared […]
Two Strong
Neil Armstrong died Saturday. Lance Armstrong, in a sense, did too. I’m still trying to sort out my feelings on performance enhancing drugs (“PEDs”) and why we might convict certain individuals in the court of public opinion over them and not others. That aside, both Armstrongs refused to be ordinary or aim too low. In […]
Principled Non-Principle
Congressman Todd Akin, a candidate for one of the two US Senatorial seats in Missouri, implied fairly directly this week that the female body physiologically rejects any zygote conceived in a forcible rape situation such that the question of whether or not an abortion should be legal for instances of rape is effectively rendered moot. […]
Amen Corner
I’ve been going all Ryan Lochte at the neighborhood pool. Giant chains. Monster tires. Ice grill. I even tried to trademark “Pah-shhh!” In Lochte fashion, I can also swim four 25 meter laps. In a row. Without stopping. Well, maybe one stop. But, very short. And a nap. With only one snack. And I might […]
R&R
On the road. Early hours of the morning, recording from a top secret undisclosed vocal booth. About to pass out. Left my windscreen at home, of course. Had to use a Kleenex on my mic to try and kill some of the consonants. Super budget tonight. But, I had to get something in on Romney’s […]
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