Sports At Politics

After a runaway victory by the AFC team in pouring rain at the NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando, Florida earlier today (the AFC defeated the NFC by a score of 26 to 7), Jason Witten, the color commentator for the English-language telecast of the Pro Bowl that aired on ABC and ESPN and was produced by ESPN, broke the #1 rule of trophy presentations, which is to not break the trophy, by breaking the trophy: Jason Witten broke the damn Pro Bowl trophy: https://t.co/Rxvi41usqy pic.twitter.com/RKL3SXqi17 — Deadspin (@Deadspin) January 27, 2019 That's an embarrassing way to cap off one of the least interesting Pro Bowl games in a long time.

I will preface this entire blog post by saying that I am currently undecided in regards to who I will support in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, although I fully intend to vote in the Illinois Democratic primary for a Democratic presidential candidate and his or her slate of Democratic National Convention delegates in my home congressional district. Now, there is a nasty smear campaign that is being waged against Kamala Harris, one of several Democrats seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, over her past relationship to Willie Brown, a former San Fransisco Mayor and California State Assembly Speaker. While the smear campaign appears to be largely waged by the far-right media, including outlets like Fox News and Breitbart, at least one person on the left has tried to smear Kamala over her past relationship to Brown as well. One of them is Lauren Steiner, who hosts a social media video series called The Robust Opposition , and Steiner went as far as t

With nearly 270,000 tweets in a short amount of time as I start to write this blog post at 7:10 A.M. U.S. Central Standard Time on January 18, 2019, "President Pelosi", referencing U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) being second in the official line of succession to the presidency, is officially a trending topic on Twitter right now. President Pelosi began trending on Twitter in response to a bombshell BuzzFeed report that the actual U.S. President, Donald Trump, directed former Trump attorney and convicted felon Michael Cohen to lie to Congress regarding negotiations between the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia and The Trump Organization regarding a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow: President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter. Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit