Tuesday 26 April 2016

An Oldie but a Goodie


Why Morgan Freeman and his CV deserve your respect

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There is a bit of a controversy going on in America (where else?) that besides the Obamacare controversy, Obama gun control controversy, Obama is black controversy, North Korea controversy, the Iraq invasion controversy, Lincoln didn’t win the Oscar controversy, music/video pirating controversy, the immigrant controversy, bank bail out controversy, drone controversy, oil pipeline controversy, Ray-J controversy, baseball doping controversy, legalized marijuana controversy and FBI spying on the internet controversy some people still have the energy to be indignant at Morgan Freeman’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) interview on Reddit recently, claiming that it seems the interview itself was a hoax and that was not the 70 year old award-winning actor but some PR shill pretending to be Morgan Freeman.

Sunday 3 April 2016

The End of the NHL As We Know It (for 2016)


The End of the NHL as We Know It in Canada


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It's been awhile since I've had any thoughts about the NHL, which is probably true for most Canadians these days. For the first time in most of our lives, not one Canadian-based NHL team will be in the playoffs. Which once again make Hockey Night in Canada just sad, like every intermission show on that Holodeck I've watched since Rogers took over.

No Canadian teams in the playoffs is just one more scar on our national psyche in regards to believing we are God's gift to Hockey. This hasn't happened since 1970, when apparently there were still only 2 Canadian teams in the league - the original six, Montreal and Toronto. As a fun side note, this year is also the first year where Canadian players make up LESS than 50% of the NHL player's association. AND the number 1 pick is probably going to be some kid from ARIZONA playing in SWITZERLAND whose favourite team was the Phoenix Coyotes. WTF!!

But what does this truly mean? Well, for one thing it means my hockey knowledge is nearly as embarrassing as my hockey pool finishes; I'm near dead last in all five of them, barring an exceptional late season surge in my local newspaper which thankfully means I will finish in the top 300 (mainly thanks to Sidney Crosby and Ryan Getzalf's late season return to forms). But my prediction of a huge follow up season for the Triplet Line and the rest of the Tampa Bay Lightning fell as flat as Carey Price's Montreal Canadians after November.

So, let's see what I think happened to Canada's teams starting with Montreal;