** Revised 11/01/08 **
A gimlet eye turned on that rollicking, venal gang
of grifters and charlatans bucking for a front-row seat at the public
trough—America's only “native criminal class,” as Twain called them...
Notes and snarls on the absurd, the outrageous, the
vile, the tragic and the heroic elements in the stew-sludge of American
pop culture...
Calumny, vituperation, mordant wit, piercing insights,
and unintended candor from a vast array of heroes and idiots
Notes on sports from high school to college to pro,
with favoritism toward buffoons and the crass and preposterous...
Indiana University sports news and comments (and ongoing
Bob Knightiana, 'cause we'll never be able to let go of him)...
Books, movies, nicknames, people we wish would shut
up and go away, rosters of the infamous, the criminal, the absurd...