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Humor Personal Sports

Vacation purity contaminated

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

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Entertainment/culture Music Sports

Taking dedication a little too far

You know, as a native Detroiter and Tigers fan, I’m not sure whether to be pleased or appalled by this picture of one of my more–shall we say?–“illustrious” fellow Detroiters getting married. The least he could do would be to wear the jersey along with the hat, don’t you think?

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History Hitler Zombie Holocaust Sports World War II

Baseball and the never-ending hunger

Deep within Yankee Stadium, a timeless evil had arrived (well, an evil around 61 years old, anyway–well, 117 years old if you count its entire existence) shambling through the dark service corridors and halls, on a never-ending quest to satisfy its unquenchable hunger. Why it had come to this place, it did not know. Perhaps […]

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Sports

Most boring sport ever?

Segway polo, anyone? Is it possible for a sport to move any slower?

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History Humor Sports World War II

One half of my heritage at its finest

About two weeks ago, I did a brief post about a Lithuanian guy whose blood alcohol level was beyond what would kill most mortal men but who was fully conscious and nominally able to drive. I facetiously referred to it as “one quarter of my heritage at its finest,” given that I’m one quarter Lithuanian. […]