30 April 2018
And so the Starphoquery continues
April 2018's addition to the Sick Phoque Club is Starbucks, not just for the racist arrest in Philadelphia but also an incident where a camera was found in a bathroom at a Starbucks in Atlanta. They seriously need to get it together.
29 April 2018
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25 April 2018
24 April 2018
23 April 2018
22 April 2018
21 April 2018
Tell me more, tell me more, is 40 really where it's at?
20 April 2018
Cherry losin'
18 April 2018
17 April 2018
16 April 2018
Reds bagged by Baggies
Manchester United were brought back down to earth after the high-octane drama of the Manchester derby as the Reds were stunningly beaten at Old Trafford by relegation favourites West Bromwich Albion. Jose Mourinho's men had deliciously put the brakes on Manchester City’s crowning as the 2017/18 Premier League champions last Saturday at the Etihad Stadium but, against the almost doomed Albion, they handed the title to the Blues, with Jay Rodriguez scoring the winner. The Reds better shape the fudge up next season. Second may be their best season post-Fergie, but there's still more to do.
15 April 2018
Starbucks in the 215 86 the Starblacks
14 April 2018
13 April 2018
12 April 2018
11 April 2018
10 April 2018
Which came first, the dragon or the egg?
9 April 2018
Aliens are real
8 April 2018
Blues won't be crowned just yet
7 April 2018
Which came first, the dragon or the egg?
6 April 2018
This is the definition of kaffir right there
5 April 2018
Let these words sink in
This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.
It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one—no matter where he lives or what he does—can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.
Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause can ever be stilled by an assassin's bullet.
No wrongs have ever been righted by riots or civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.
4 April 2018
MAYA@90
It’s only fitting that the first week of U.S. National Poetry Month in April coincides with what would have been the 90th birthday of the poet Maya Angelou, who died May 28, 2014, at the age of 86. But while she’s best known today for her writing — as the author of more than 30 books and the recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees — she had many different careers before becoming a writer, and all before the age of 40, as TIME pointed out in her 2014 obituary. Such jobs included: cook, waitress, sex-worker, dancer, actor, playwright, editor at an English-language newspaper in Egypt, Calypso singer, and cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess. In fact, her name is more of a stage name than a pen name; she was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis in 1928, but in the 1950s came up with “Maya Angelou,” which is a portmanteau of sorts, by combining her childhood nickname and a riff on her then-husband’s surname.
3 April 2018
2 April 2018
Swansea swanned out
Manchester United regained second place in the Premier League by setting up a comfortable Old Trafford win against Swansea City with an early double goal blast. The Reds effectively ended the contest after 20 minutes, by which time Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez had scored a goal each. United had been demoted to third spot ahead of the match following Liverpool’s lunchtime victory at Crystal Palace but it didn’t last long. There had been a strong and honest verbal response from manager Jose Mourinho following the Emirates FA Cup quarter-final tie at Old Trafford against Brighton. Mourinho would have been looking for a positive response to his criticism and he certainly got it. He also needs to either get the Premiership silverware or go.