MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — There is little doubt that when Peyton Manning’s career ends, he will have made his case as the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL. Shoot, at age 33, he has his case. He is already in the Top 5 in just about every passing category — completions, yards, touchdowns, and so on. He has won four MVP awards, more than anybody including Jim Brown, John Unitas and Brett Favre. He has led the Colts to seven consecutive 12-win seasons; that’s a record too.
And still, there’s no way to look at Manning’s brilliant career without noticing that there’s an awful lot of heartbreak in it.
The next best thing to having the New England Patriots continue their domination of the aughts is having Indianapolis Colts hillbilly quarterback Peyton Manning fall flat on his face in the biggest game of them all. Sure, the Patriots went down in flames this season – beset by injuries, infighting, and an alarming lack of playmaking on both sides of the ball. But you’d be bullshitting yourself if you said you didn’t wake up Monday morning with an extra bounce in your step.
Part of being as competitive as we are is the joy that comes when a hated rival fails. Schadenfreude isn’t just a fancy word, buckos, it’s a way of life around these parts. Now let’s sit back and hope that moonshine and fried squirrel taste a little extra bitter around the Manning manse. And, Peyton, next year let’s let an AFC quarterback with some balls show you how it’s done.
Post by MMC newcomer Steve, no relation to the “godfather” of MMC.com, Scuba Steve.
SAT SCORES aren’t everything. But they can tell some fascinating stories.
Take 1,623, for instance. That’s the average score of Asian-Americans, a group that Daniel Golden – editor at large of Bloomberg News and author of “The Price of Admission’’ – has labeled “The New Jews.’’ After all, much like Jews a century ago, Asian-Americans tend to earn good grades and high scores. And now they too face serious discrimination in the college admissions process.
Notably, 1,623 – out of a possible 2,400 – not only separates Asians from other minorities (Hispanics and blacks average 1,364 and 1,276 on the SAT, respectively). The score also puts them ahead of Caucasians, who average 1,581. And the consequences of this are stark.
Asian American ceiling my ass. Maybe safety schools like Princeton use weird admissions formulas, but as far as I can tell, real colleges LOVE Asian kids. Don’t believe me? All it takes is a quick drive down Mass Ave to confidently rule out this bull shit. The entire City of Cambridge is only a few rickshaws short of being an actual Asian city…less a few thousand hipsters and a couple Anna’s Taquerias.
A slow starting Monday just got a lot better…courtesy of this topical post (From August). Rather than scour the WWW for blogging material, I’m just going to the tee this one up and watch Mark let the Big Dog eat…
In February, 2009 Dan Conley refused to speak to a former State AAG and newspaper editor who blogged 35 videos of a contentious murder trial in the death of Revere Officer Daniel Talbot. In this YouTube video he put his finger in this black man’s face and asked him for “credentials” even though he was aware that Judge Patrick Brady had given the man such credentials to roll video, take audio and still pictures and to provide commentary.
Mr. Bernstein shed some light on why DA Conley gets so pissy when you challenge him, particularly when he knows you’ve been a successful trial lawyer. Here’s a 2005 Story by Bernstein “The Worst Homicide Squad in the Country.”
(more, much more at links)
PS. We don’t mind you linking to your blogs and shit, just don’t post nonsensical links on posts from August…kind of douchy. And the excuse of “I just found it know” is unacceptable. This is MrMillCity.com god damnit! The greatest thing since slice bread…required reading for the masses.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Exotic dancers and other employees of five Springfield area strip clubs have filed an unfair wages lawsuit against the owners of the clubs.
The suit filed in Hampden Superior Court by three dancers, two disc jockeys and two bartenders alleges that the clubs paid them no salaries and denied them standard worker benefits. The dancers say they were expected to pay $40 to $100 kickbacks per shift.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs tells The Republican of Springfield that the club owners’ business practices were “not legal under any circumstances.”
You know, there aren’t a ton of nice things you can say about Tyngsboro. Like I could literally sit here and draw blanks all afternoon. Having said that, you really have to admire the way they manage their whores. You never hear as much as a whisper of a complaint. It almost seems like the entire town is populated by strippers, yet its all sunshine 24/7.
LOWELL — Teen girls are being arrested in growing numbers — a trend that Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone said authorities are seeing not only in Lowell but statewide as bloody fights among young girls increase.
Lowell High officials say budget cuts and layoffs have set back ongoing efforts to curb violent conflicts among students as caseloads pile up for the remaining social workers and mediators at the high school.
As far as I’m concerned, this cat Trecepo should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. On account of his/her eye for good scrap, and above standard production value, we’ve got School Committee Members, District Attorney’s, Senators, Kings, Queens, and Prime Ministers, all in one room to finally acknowledge and discuss a strategy to managing something that has been a not so dark faction of our public schools for the past 20 years. Ask anybody who survived the first five years of the Sullivan Middle School…and sadly, I am using the word “survived” literally. Ironically, there’s a high likelihood that Trecepo’s stars are the offspring of the hellions that made life a little spicy for some naive Belvidere kids during their first few years of middle school.
PS. I don’t blame Erin Smith one bit for hammering us with this story because her other assignments aren’t going to get her on the radio…or even a pity blog on this site.
BILLERICA — Some of the town’s brightest young spellers are getting ready to compete in Billerica’s first townwide spelling bee tomorrow.
Earlier this year, Michael Moore and his wife, Denise, wondered why there is no opportunity for a Billerica student to participate in a spelling bee. So the couple set the wheels in motion to stage one.
The daylong event kicks off at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow inside the Maurice A. Buck Auditorium at Town Hall. There will be 82 participants, from grades 3-8.
This has got to be decisive blow to those out there that don’t believe in evolution. An actual spelling bee, with actual words, featuring actual Bill-ricans…in Billerica no less. Sure, someone will undoubtedly fashion together some hastily made dirt bike ramps to kill time between rounds, but progress is progress. One small step for man, one giant step for, well, you get the picture.
I know I sound like a broken record but- You really can’t make this stuff up.
LOWELL — A 20-year-old Lowell man is facing charges after police say he allowed his pit bull to lunge and snap at people as he walked it downtown without a leash.
No one was bitten or injured, but police booked Tyrone Buffong, of 26 Third St., after an officer watched him walk from Central and Merrimack streets to Kearney Square while allowing his dog to lunge at passers-by Monday afternoon.
Several people soon complained to an officer who was in the area about 2 p.m., and when the officer approached Buffong, he refused to restrain the dog so the officer could speak to him, police said.
Buffong then resisted when an officer tried to arrest him, police said.
Buffong was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (the dog), failure to license a dog, failure to restrain a dog, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Full article in the paper of record here but am I the only one to notice you can’t spell Buffong without Buffon? Yeah I know it’s not Buffoon but close enough. I’m also shocked Mr. Buffoon Buffong resisted arrest. Remember folks- Poodle or Pitbull if they’re leashed they can’t do this. The problem isn’t the dog- it’s Tyrone Buffoon. I mean Buffong.
Key lawmakers, facing public concern over a raft of highly publicized accidents involving older drivers, yesterday proposed requiring vision tests for drivers over 75 years old seeking to renew their licenses, and granting legal immunity to doctors who report that their patients are not competent to drive.
The bill would also ban text messaging while driving, the other major road issue that safety advocates have moved to the top of their agenda in the past year. The texting ban, echoing language recommended by a legislative committee last week, also forbids all drivers under age 18 from using cellphones while behind the wheel.
What the hell is going on here? We go from wanting to give mandatory driving tests to the elderly to proposing mandatory vision tests? I thought it has been confirmed that vision isn’t the culprit. The real problem is that these people are old and as such have reflexes that are working on a 15 second delay. Sure they saw that house that they were plowing into just fine, they just couldn’t muscle up the strength to turn the car. ( On a side note, what in god’s name did the elderly do before power steering?) Once 95 year old Great-Grandma Ethyl puts on her 10 inch thick spectacles, she may end up passing that vision test. And from the RMV she will end up driving straight through the entrance of the new Target, overshooting the handicap spots by a cool 100 feet. Continue reading ‘Old people dodge a driving test bullet…and then drive into a wall’
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