{"id":3069,"date":"2020-07-24T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:36:08","slug":"twenty-four-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/24\/twenty-four-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not a lot of desire to do this today.  I was actually thinking early this morning that maybe it&#8217;d be easier to just quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to do that, because I want to finish what I started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So.  News.  The team with the formerly-offensive name is now just the &#8220;Washington Football Team.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still think they&#8217;re missing out on the moniker I thought of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So.  News.  There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/sierra-club-john-muir-racism-monuments-182629801.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s almost amusing to see all these &#8220;icons&#8221; getting torn down years after their deaths.  Was he a racist?  Probably not nearly as much as Virginia-born Democrat Woodrow Wilson, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked on Twitter, and got a funny response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MNW1PTCpJs\">pic.twitter.com\/MNW1PTCpJs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; PeddlingFictionPodcast (@PeddleFiction) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeddleFiction\/status\/1286676520321208320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Was he a slave-peddler?  Nothing that I&#8217;ve seen really indicates that.  Did both good and bad things pop up because this Italian guy did the bidding of the Spanish monarchy?  Sure.  Do I support the Spanish monarchy?  No.  Do I support eliminating every mention?  No.  It happened.  Some people are happy about that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re not going to hide it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people in the past drew inspiration from what he did, and erected monuments to those things.  Fine.  Let them stand, and remove them when they don&#8217;t serve any purpose anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should the Wilson bridge have been renamed when it was widened?  Yeah.  Should it happen right now?  I&#8217;m very conflicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is &#8220;Redskins&#8221; offensive?  Yeah, at some point it was.  For me, someone born during the Carter Administration, when I hear it, I think of George Allen, and the &#8220;Over The Hill Gang,&#8221; Joe Gibbs, John Riggins, Mark Rypien, and the Posse.  I don&#8217;t think of anything racist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hell, I&#8217;m young enough that when someone mentions &#8220;Earnest Byner,&#8221; I think of the 1991 Redskins, not &#8220;The Fumble.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somebody from Cleveland probably thinks differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also, as a Saints&#8217; fan, think of the Saints losing to the Redskins on Sunday Night Football to a Redskins Team that&#8217;d started the season 0-5, and led by Tony Banks after they&#8217;d released their starting quarterback (Jeff George) something like three games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But FedEx and Nike are on my no-buy list..  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On to digging through the past&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I want a beer &#8211; 7\/24\/2002<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s 4:39 in the morning, I&#8217;m at work, and I want a beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WTF?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tfffftbt. I wanna go far, far away from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get off at six, and don&#8217;t have to be back at work until 9 saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmph\u2026what to do what to do\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what was going on around this time.  I&#8217;d graduated from college, and was still working in radio.  My time off, still, wasn&#8217;t really fun nights to do things.  I didn&#8217;t have a lot to do.  It would have been hot outside, so maybe that was it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot of desire to do this today. I was actually thinking early this morning that maybe it&#8217;d be easier to just quit. I&#8217;m not going to do that, because I want to finish what I started. So. News. 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