December 11, 2015

• The War on Football

  Quote of the day:

  This from Steve Almond, writing for Salon:

  "It’s privileged white men, for the most part, who cry like babies because some egghead — usually a doctor or a scientist — dares to apply a functioning conscience to their personal indulgences. In the absence of any coherent argument, the speaker inevitably projects his or her own malicious hypocrisy onto the world at large."

  That's the concluding paragraph of an article objecting to a former football player (Danny Kanell) who has objected to the "War on Football."  Like Almond, I object to Kanell's objection.  I've stopped watching football games (OK, I'm TRYING to stop; addictions are hard to break), in part because they keep letting wife-beaters play in the NFL and also in part because of the sickening truths being revealed about concussions and other debilitating injuries.

  Almond writes that Kanell's "mentality is precisely the same as the for-profit demagogues who bleat about the 'War on Christmas' or the 'War on Gun Rights.'

  Yeah, that too.

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