A Brief History On August 1, 2022, NFL and especially Cleveland Browns football fans finally got the long-awaited verdict in the case of quarterback Deshaun Watson, accused by more than 2 dozen women of various levels of sexual harassment while receiving massages. Digging Deeper Watson was a member of the Houston Texans when the allegations surfaced, causing him to sit out the entire 2021 season, though with pay. In 2022 the Texans traded Watson to the Browns who made the young quarterback the highest paid player in NFL history despite the sexual misconduct allegations not being settled at the time.…
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A Brief History On July 31, 1970, the British Royal Navy experienced one of the darkest days in their long and glorious history, Black Tot Day. On that day, the RN ended its long tradition of giving each sailor at sea a drink of rum. Digging Deeper While you may not personally miss this bygone practice, we ask, “What do you miss the most?” Some possible answers could be: (for Catholics) The Latin Mass School Dress and Grooming Codes Drive-in Movies Decent Meals and Service on Airliners Polaroid Cameras Phone Booths The Milkman Vinyl Records Sears Catalog Cheap Gasoline Hot…
A Brief History On July 11, 2016, we ran an article we called Scumbag of the Year Awards (First Half) 2016. Today, we take another look at this sordid subject with an eye on the first half of 2022. Sadly, three is no lack of subjects for this article, though for brevity reasons we limit our list to only a few particularly egregious offenders. Feel free to tell us those other scumbags you think belong on this list. Digging Deeper Vladimir Putin, Dictator of Russia and War Criminal Vladimir Putin, narcissistic megalomaniac dictator of Russia, ordered the invasion of neighboring…
A Brief History On July 4th, 2022, Americans celebrate their Independence Day, a holiday that signifies their freedom. During the month of June 2015, Americans experienced a host of developments in the expansion of this freedom, so we of course featured an article about those changes. In any case, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, the times sure were a-changin’ in June 2015, and here in 2022, those times STILL are a changin’! Digging Deeper Since 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and it seemed as if the Cold War was over, we have all lived under the belief that nuclear war…
A Brief History On April 25, 2019, NBA (National Basketball Association) Hall of Famer, John Havlicek, died in Jupiter, Florida at the age of 79. Born in 1940, Havlicek was already 6 years old when the NBA was born. We use this occasion of the passing of an NBA (and Ohio State University) legend to talk about the evolution of the NBA. Digging Deeper In June of 1946, the Basketball Association of America was formed as a major league of professional basketball in the United States and Canada. The BAA started out as a competitor of the already established (1937)…