Sports builds character

Except when it doesn't. These two a-holes likely never had much character to begin with. EMU is better off without 'em.

Detroit hating ex-ESPN talking head Jay Mariotti discovers the true meaning of karma

Jay Mariotti is a total asshole of a sports pundit who wrote for the Detroit News then left and bounced around until he happened to end up on ESPN. And then he went nuts. Mariotti is an odd fish who's schtick combines the overtly expressed hatred of a Michael Savage with the wholly unjustified egomania of an Alec Baldwin and who also happens to just love to hate Detroit.

I started noticing Mariotti's nutty  screeds around the time when the Detroit News first hired  the jerk and that he kept a serious grudge against the whole city for years after he left us. Mariotti did not limit his animosity to just sports either. Mariotti hated on Detroit and all things Michigan from his departure from the Detroit News unrelentingly for decades.

Now a multiple felon the loud mouthed asshole is going learn all about karma and schadenfreude in both theory and practice. Sucks to be Jay right now. Couldn't say he doesn't deserve what he's getting though.

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Eastern Michigan coach Ron English sells single moms short- Detroit Free Press

Alternative headline: Simple-minded sports columnist doesn't get nuance, or is simply looking to start a mud fight to boost readership.

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Be here now: Shut off your phone - Taki's Magazine (James Jackson)
"...a young mother in the park will not be feeding the ducks with her child or pointing out the delights of flora and fauna. She will have stuck a pacifier in the youngster’s mouth and will be immersed elsewhere in a different conversation with a phone clamped to her ear."

UK Police Promise Not To Retain DNA Data, But Do Anyway - The Circular Triangle blog (Matthew Wilkes)
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An amazing picture of the Andromeda galaxy from the WISE - Scientific American
Automating warfare - Popular Mechanics online
The mil-industrial complex is gearing up for the next generation of ultra-deadly (and presumably very profitable) fighter aircraft.
UK Football fans to owners: sell our team to someone else. - WSJ