BEFORE YOU READ ANYTHING IN THIS BLOG... This has absolutely nothing to do with sports, and I am not a political expert by any means. What this is is a column on two things that mean something to me as a human being. This isn't featured on the front page of the site. It's just on my blog. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a moderate who generally leans democrat:

You can read Dick Gregory's political comedy all over the Internet, and it's pretty darn funny. For example, this is a part of his routine from the early 1960s (For the purposes of this joke, it should be noted that Gregory is an African-American).

"Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here,' I said. 'That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken,'."

Yet the email I received this weekend from my sister ticked me off to no end. Gregory spoke at my sister's college, Colgate, this past Friday, and during a talk about conspiracies and not being naive, seemed to allege that Flight 3407 was a conspiracy. From Colgate's web site:


"In one piece, he suggested that the plane crash in Buffalo occurred because Beverly Eckert, one of the passengers on board, had requested that the investigation about her husband's death in the 9/11 attacks be re-opened two days earlier."

Look, Dick Gregory, I went to college, I'm moderate at best and I watch documentaries that uncover all the shady goings-on in America, but if you want to come into New York State and grandstand on what is surely an absurd concept one week after our region was shocked by a 50-death tragedy... Don't come back. I generally want to punch the "college is only for liberals" pundits in the face, but thanks for reinforcing the stereotype, buddy.

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I don't want to turn in my democrat card or anything, but I'm going to stay on the conservative side for a second. At church this Sunday, they laid out the new abortion rights bill that's going into the state legislature. With the understand that catholicism likely has a multiple-point agenda in the case, apparently one of the aspects of the bill is that Catholic hospitals would have to grant abortions under law to stay open, which as you could guess is completely contrary to the Church's teaching. Whether you're a freedom of religion person, or anti-religion person, I don't think that should fly. Maybe that's just me.

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Something funny about sports.

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