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Think Progress » Black NFL Players ‘Wouldn’t Play’ For Limbaugh’s Team: ‘He’s A Jerk’

“A lot of us took it as more of a racial-type thing. I can only imagine how his players would feel. I know I wouldn’t want to play for him. He’s a jerk. He’s an –. What he said (about McNabb) was inappropriate and insensitive, totally off-base. He could offer me whatever he wanted, I wouldn’t play for him. … I wouldn’t play for Rush Limbaugh. My principles are greater and I can’t be bought.”

– Jets linebacker Bart Scott

Looks like the prospect of Lush Rimjob buying the St. Louis Rams doesn’t sit well with some NFL players.

Let’s hope every player – regardless of color – thinks the same way. They won’t, but you’d like to think something this foul would inspire them to do the right thing.

Report: Vegas near bottom on list of smartest cities – Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 | 4:20 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Well, unfortunately this is not a surprise. Las Vegas also comes in dead last in a list of intelligent cities. Yes, this place has a long way to go before we get some respect. Part of it is the transitory nature of many of the folks who live here – a lot of them are working on getting rich quick. Some of it has to do with the hands-off libertarian experiment that says government shouldn’t try to help improve schools, bring in museums, cultivate the arts, etc. And, honestly, this is a new town that grew out really fast without taking the time to worry how to grow *up*.

Either way, at least we’ve still got the meth-head zombie horde in Fresno to kick around.

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts | Wired Science | Wired.com

This, unfortunately, says a lot about this nation. We almost had a cadre of female astronauts to lead our nation into the Final Frontier. The only thing holding them back? The United States Air Force. Yeah, the same Air Force that is full of Talibangelical End Times idiots that are trying to turn our nation into a theocracy. The same Air Force that should have their academy in Colorado Springs disbanded and burned to the ground for their backward beliefs and religious thuggery.

These are the sexist pricks that kept women grounded when we could have used them to advance science, adventure and democratic ideals back in the 1950s and early 1960s.