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Rant #1,029: Slight Push 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
You might remember that a few Rants ago, I wrote about WWE wrestler Darren Young, the first known, active professional wrestler to come out of the closet while still on the active roster of the bigges...
Rant #1,028: Fit To Be Tied 26 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
As I have written about numerous times here, I hate to wear ties. To me, it is a noose around one's neck, just a modern equivalent of when they used to string people up for what they said or what the...
Rant #1,027: 18 23 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Today is my son's birthday. But it's not just any birthday. Today he is 18 years of age. In this society, he is now considered a man, with all the responsibilities that go along with being an adult...
Rant #1,026: 4,000 22 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
There are several numbers that are special in baseball. 61, for Roger Maris' untainted home run total in 1961. His "PED" was cigarettes. 511, for the number of games won by Cy Young. This is a recor...
Rant #1,025: TV's Old Shows Are Its Best Shows 21 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
I love classic TV, and I love classic situation comedies. They were well written, well cast, and they dealt with everyday problems that we all go through at one time or another. Whether they were re...
Rant #1,024: Ashes to Ashes 20 Aug 2013 | 04:18 pm
"Ashes to ashes Funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie ... " Those are some of the lyrics to David Bowie's 1980 song "Ashes to Ashes," and they really have not that much to do with what I am tal...
Rant #1,023: Getting "Crabbed" 19 Aug 2013 | 04:26 pm
I love to watch movies. Since I was a little kid, I just love to watch films on both TV and in the theater. It brings me to places that I will probably never visit, and puts me in situations that I ...
Rant #1,022: Gay Wrestler 16 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
WWE Wrestler Darren Young has come out of the closet, as he has admitted that he is gay. Whoopee do! In what apparently is a true story, Young simply admitted to be gay--not with a grand news confer...
Rant #1,021: Funky Benjamins 15 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
Let me just say at the outset that I have an uncle named Benjamin, but I have called him "Uncle Bobby" for as long as I can remember. That being said, the Benjamins I am going to talk about here have...
Rant #1,020: Various Matters 14 Aug 2013 | 02:42 pm
Nothing out there is really catching my eye as a single subject to talk about, so rather than focus on one thing today, I am going to talk a little about a few subjects near and dear to my heart. Nas...
