Archive for April, 2009

End the Darfur Genocide

Posted by chitownblue On April - 29 - 2009

As has been shown in 1940′s Europe, Turkey in 1915, the Soviet Union ilast_unicornn the 1930′s, and Bosnia in the 1990′s, the world, often, is all too willing to turn a blind eye to atrocity and mass-killing on unprecedented scales provided the ugliness doesn’t make a regular appearance in their every-day life. The press is often loathe to report such news, and government is often hesitant to involve themselves. The moral responsibility we should all feel to help end the current situation in Darfur – in which Sudanese troops subsidize and frequently aid Janjaweed militias in their persecution, systemic rape and murder, and displacement of large swaths of tribal enemies into disease-ridden, starving camps - is obvious. The WLA encourages anyone to help by giving a few bucks, or writing your local legislator to encourage them to continue passing aid and peace-keeping bills.

However, something has occurred in the past days that strike the WLA deep to the core – something that makes this tragedy hit home and prompts us to marshall our considerable strength to end this untenable situation even more quickly. Comrades, Mia Farrow has gone on hunger-strike. Now, this has nothing to do with a deep-seeded obsession with Woody Allen, or even a post-Rosemary’s Baby crush (was the annoying Japanese Cameraman really a stereotype in the sixties? Fascinating.). It doesn’t even have anything to do with Farrow’s already scary resemblance to a skeleton. No – Mia Farrow is the Last Unicorn. Moved to help an oppressed people, the slight Farrow has put herself, and her entire species at risk in order to save the Darfur.

Farrow has already once saved her kind – sacrificing her one true love to redbullrescue the Unicorns from the clutches of the evil Red Bull, who sought to exile all that is magical and pure to the briny ocean (this is why the WLA endorses Zima).

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Road to the Motor City Bowl, Pt. 2

Posted by admin On April - 28 - 2009

Check out Pt. 1 of Jamie Mac’s gambling odyssey here.

THE FAVORITES 

Minnesota, 4-1 

There really would be no better storybook season to write than Minnesota parlaying the excitement over its new stadium into a stirring run to the Motor City Bowl.  I’m torn on which way the Gophers will go this year. Will they build on that 7-1 start from last year? Or, will they crater like their 0-4 finish? What I’m not torn on are the Tim Brewster Twitter possibilities as he enjoys the finer points of the great American city of Detroit.  

COACH BREW LOOKING FOR PLAYMAKERS IN HIGHLAND PARK I FEEL LIKE I AM ON A MOVIE SET 

YOU SHOULD HOLD AT 15 BUT I LIKE AGGRESSIVE PLAYMAKERS SO HIT ME  

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Posted by KRK On April - 27 - 2009

Bea Arthur died on Saturday after a long, amazing life.  She will be missed by many including this author.  She had a beautiful smile that brightened a dark world and she made the show Golden Girls the hit series that it was.  We will miss you Bea…we will miss you.

As a tribute to her life and career, please leave your favorite “Bea Arthur Penis” joke in the comments.

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Sleep on that bitches!

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Friend of Blog/Frequent Commenter/Degenerate Gambler Jamie Mac, in between laying parlays on Champion’s League Soccer and seekings the most authoritative website on NCAA Women’s Basketball point-spreads, took some time to lay some odds of his own on the race for the Motor-City Bowl. To read more of Jamie Mac, check out his awesome diaries at MGoBlog. To scream at him to finally get his own blog, because he’s a better writer than 99% of the blogosphere, yell at him in the comments.

Attention Comrades! Due to the harsh economic conditions of the day, new solutions are required to raise motorcitybowlmoney for the Revolution. We have received word that state sanctioned gambling has now been legalized and encouraged. With the upcoming football season right around the corner, the WLA proudly releases its future odds on the Big 10 invite to the Motor City Bowl. Every fall its an exciting chase to see who gets to spend Christmas in Detroit. If you’re going to be forced to celebrate this garishly watered down by runaway Capitalism soiree, it might as well be in the greatest of American cities, Detroit, where our proud union card carrying comrades have helped spur an amazing urban renaissance with their own gambling houses. We look to join them with our Motor City Bowl odds. It is expected that we can raise up enough rubles where we can finally stop the turnip rationing and allow the people to put a third and fourth wheel on their tractors. 

THE LONGSHOTS 

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Are We Talking about Lacrosse?

Posted by chitownblue On April - 23 - 2009

A central tenet it the Communist Manifesto is that government should take from each individual according to their ability and give to each individual according to their need. The world of major college athletics operates in a somewhat similar fashion – major revenue sports such as football and basketball provide the financial support for non-revenue sports, ranging from crew to baseball. However, some sports exist outside of this continuum, and fend for themselves in the wilds of Club Sports – by and large, these teams are more than just sports teams, as players pay for their own tuition, pay for the privilege to participate in their sport, and invest further sweat equity in cold, hard, labor to ensure that their teams stay afloat.

 

One such team at Michigan is the Men’s Lacrosse team. Presently, Men’s Lacrosse is the single most successful team onlax campus – winners of thirty-five consecutive games, the defending MCLA champions, and the current #1 ranked team in MCLA – an organization comprised of over 200 university club lacrosse teams. The team is 85-2 in league play, both of those losses coming in the finals of the league tournament, and has won eight of the last ten league championships (this year likely will bring that to 9 of 11).  While comprising this record, the team had been funded by revenues generated by player-run lacrosse camps for high-school players, an assortment of sponsorships that garner the team a free weekly team-dinner (at Cottage Inn!) and the bulk of their equipment, somewhat lofty club-dues, alumni donations, and a parent-run booster club largely responsible for pre and post-game snacks (seriously, they also run the end-of-year banquet and help form sponsorship and partnership deals). Support for the sport, and the team, is growing – Michigan’s Men’s team attracts several hundred fans a game, and, when they play Michigan State, fills the stands with over 5,000 spectators – there to watch a club team, and our friend’s at Varsity Blue already offer extensive coverage of the team.

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